Mediagazer: Al Gore Dismissed From Lawsuit Over Current TV Sale to Al Jazeera (Eriq Gardner/Hollywood Reporter)

9:15 AM ET, July 10, 2013

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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co. to spin off newspapers — Chicago Tribune and other papers to become part of Tribune Publishing Co., separate from WGN radio and TV … One week after boosting its broadcasting holdings with the announcement of a deal to purchase 19 television stations, Tribune Co …

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Maxim Magazine Said to Fetch Bids of About $20 Million — Maxim magazine, the bawdy men's title that went up for sale in March, is seeing some bids of about $20 million, less than a 10th of the price its owners paid six years ago, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Riva Gold / The Atlantic Online:

Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis — New numbers from the American Society of News Editors show that the progress of women and minorities in media has halted. — The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) recently released its annual study of newsroom diversity.

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Bill Mickey / Folio:

Report: Number of Magazine Launches Continues to Decrease — New title total down again for first half, to 97, says MediaFinder. — In its quarterly survey, MediaFinder reported that 97 magazines launched and 29 closed in the first half of 2013. — Once again, the categories most likely …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Conservative Voice Goes From ‘View’ to Fox News — Fox News announced a sudden shake-up of its morning show “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday night, hiring Elisabeth Hasselbeck from ABC's “The View” to replace Gretchen Carlson, who has been a co-host of the morning show for seven years.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Guggenheim Exit Leaves Hulu a Pay-TV Pawn — Three bidders remain: DirecTV, AT&T, Time Warner Cable — The pay-TV biz is going to get its hands on Hulu. — With Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR opting out of the hunt for Hulu, as CNBC reported Tuesday, that leaves three bidders …

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Hulu Sale Attracts Plenty Of Bidders, But For What, Exactly?

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Al Gore Dismissed From Lawsuit Over Current TV Sale to Al Jazeera — The $5 million lawsuit came from a media consultant who allegedly figured out the structures and strategies to make the sale “palatable.” — On Tuesday, former United States Vice President Al Gore scored a knockdown …

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Magazine Ad Pages Continue to Decline, Despite Increase in Digital — MPA — The Association of Magazine Media has released its consumer magazine ad page data for the second quarter of 2013, and again, print advertising continues to decline. Advertising for the quarter fell 4.5 percent versus …

Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news — For those of a certain age, perusing the ads posted at The Batavian, the for-profit news site in Batavia, New York, can seem a lot like flipping through the pages of a weekly community newspaper a generation or two ago.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Can't stop, won't stop: PRX introduces an app for unending audio storytelling — PRX is proposing a new model for what a radio station (or a “radio” “station") can be with a new app that offers up pieces from shows you like, some from a few you may not recognize, and then puts the whole thing on shuffle.

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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:

Ron Paul Getting In The Media Business — Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is taking a crack at being a media mogul with the forthcoming launch of his new venture, “The Ron Paul Channel.” — Expected to make a splash sometime this summer — most likely in August, according to the Daily Caller …

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Rani Molla / GigaOM:

Prss is trying to design the iPad publishing app that Apple never built — A Netherlands-based company wants to revolutionize iPad publishing. In much the same way that Quark enabled desktop publishing in the eighties and platforms like WordPress and Tumblr allowed anyone to cheaply …

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