Mediagazer: Tribune Papers Sale Clouded by Digital Assets (William Launder/Wall Street Journal)

1:55 PM ET, June 12, 2013

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Greek journalists defy government order to close state broadcaster — ERT, Hellenic Broadcasting Corp, was ordered to shut down as part of public spending cuts, but remained on air via the internet — • Click here to see ERT's Ustream broadcast — Journalists from Greece's state …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: ERT shutdown: European Broadcasting Union sets up makeshift studio

Reuters:
Greece says to relaunch state TV in weeks as protests mount

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Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV — Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel Corp. (INTC) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

News Corp split ‘paves way for new BSkyB bid’ — News Corp has jumped the last hurdle in its plans to split into two, raising expectations that Rupert Murdoch's empire will renew its attempts to take over BSkyB. — James Murdoch was forced to step down as chairman of News Inetrnational and …

Meg James / Los Angeles Times: News Corp. says no settlement with U.S. Department of Justice

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post's ‘Sponsored Views’ will let advertisers respond to opinion pieces — A new advertising feature called “Sponsored Views” will allow “organizations to post commentary related to or in response to content from The Washington Post's Opinion section,” the Post says in a press release.

Discussion: Washington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest, AllThingsD and Mashable

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

A Reality TV Show, Minus the TV — ‘Summer Break’ Follows Nine Teenagers, but Only Through Social Media Like Twitter, Instagram — LOS ANGELES—Two teenage boys sit by the airport here, competing to use their phones to take the best “selfie,” or self-portrait, with planes landing in the background.

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

How Journalists Really Feel About the Digital Evolution — It's a no-brainer that digital technology is impacting newsgathering and reporting globally. How much? A survey of journalists worldwide by the Oriella PR Network, an alliance of PR agencies, found that 39 percent consider themselves …

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

CNN Pitches Sponsors Seeking Younger Viewers — Cable-news outlet uses new ayem show, travel series to pick up ads — When it comes to advertising, CNN isn't exactly acting its age. — The Time Warner news cabler has often relied on marketers whose primary consumer base skews somewhat older …

Discussion: TVNewser

Jason Gilbert / Yahoo! News:

Netflix to launch user profiles later this summer — LOS ANGELES — Sharing your Netflix account with a friend or lover who has dramatically different taste in movies than you do? Soon, there will be no need to worry about getting your Netflix recommendations all mixed up with theirs.

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Christopher Harrison / The Hill:

Why Pandora bought an FM radio station — The internet isn't just the future of radio; it is radio. Today, 70+ million Americans listen to Pandora, accounting for more than 7 percent of all U.S. radio listening. Our Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken …

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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Pandora Buys Terrestrial Radio Station in South Dakota, Aims for Lower ASCAP Royalties

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Radio Ink Magazine and Seeking Alpha

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

New York Times brings magazine experience to the web — The New York Times Magazine has been re-imagined for the web, built with HTML5 technologies and following a responsive design — Copyright: By adKinn on Flickr. Some Rights Reserved. — “It's clear that the tenurable model …

The Huffington Post:

Fox News Reporter's Hearing Begins Today — NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a New York City-based reporter who's being asked to name her sources in a story on the Colorado theater shooting are asking an appellate court to quash a subpoena that requires her to testify.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Edward Wong / New York Times:

Chinese Journalist Said to Be Detained in Beijing — BEIJING — A Chinese journalist who recently released a documentary about a women's forced labor camp and has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times has been detained by police officers in Beijing, his friends and family members said this week.

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

ESPN is killing off its 3D sports channel, blaming ‘low adoption’ of 3D TV sets in the home — Over the last three or four years manufacturers have been pushing 3D TV sets as the next big hardware innovation. The technology hasn't taken off though and as a result, ESPN announced today that it will be closing its ESPN 3D channel.

Discussion: The Verge, AdAge, Poynter and Reuters

Wayne Friedman / Media Post Daily:

Millennial Viewers Prefer Cross-Platform TV — A growing number of millennial TV consumers are committed to a “broadband-only” existence — all of which could spell some trouble for traditional TV content/channel owners. The new study says 13% of 18- to-34-year-olds — some 8.6 million — are broadband-only customers.

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Web Display Ads Often Not Visible — The old adage in advertising—that half the money is wasted but no one knows which half—turns out to be as true for the digital world as it ever was for traditional media. — An astounding 54% of online display ads shown in “thousands” …

Discussion: AdExchanger, eMedia Vitals and AdAge

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Feedly starts weaning itself from Google Reader servers — Taking a major step toward independence, Feedly's iOS app now uses Feedly's own servers instead of Google's to keep track of RSS feeds. — Less than three weeks before Google Reader shuts down, a top alternative called Feedly …

Discussion: Softpedia News, The Digital Reader and WebProNews

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

DirecTV executive blasts broadcasters at congressional hearing — WASHINGTON — Consumers should get to choose which broadcast networks they want to pay to receive, a senior DirecTV executive told Congress on Wednesday. — In testimony to a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee …