Mediagazer: How Investing in Print Could Pay Off (Roben Farzad/Businessweek)

3:10 AM ET, July 15, 2013

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John Tozzi / Businessweek:

A New Way for Musicians to Make Money on YouTube — In 2001, composer Scott Schreer wrote a roughly two-minute saxophone-heavy acid jazz instrumental called Love Doctor, and the song lives in an online catalogue of music that he licenses to film and TV producers.

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Matthew Garrahan / FT Magazine:

Google invests in YouTube studio in LA — High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http …

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America — As the new US network is finally set to launch, serious concerns arise about its brand and intent: especially from within the organization — When Al Jazeera last December purchased Current TV in order to launch its own …

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Sold Back to Its Founder, Frommer's to Publish Anew — When Google bought the Frommer's brand of travel guides last August, it was an unlikely union of old and new, of paper and pixels. — It didn't last long. — Arthur Frommer, the 83-year-old founder of the company …

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Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:

Greece Resumes Official State TV Programming — ATHENS — Exactly a month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece closed the state television network ERT in a cost-cutting move that almost brought down his fragile coalition government, a bare-bones version of the service was back on the air on Thursday.

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Roben Farzad / Businessweek:

How Investing in Print Could Pay Off — News Corp. Time Warner. Now, Tribune. They're all spinning off their declining print businesses. — Why would anyone buy these orphans? Because they will offer pure plays on what promises to be more mergers and acquisitions in the industry.

Jan Schaffer / Mediashift:

Public Media Join Non-Profit Startups to Collaborate, Fill Local News Gap — In Denver, the statewide public television network had no newsroom until it merged with an investigative news site that built one from scratch. In St. Louis, The Beacon has been working to add its 14 reporters …

Claire Suddath / Businessweek:

Inventing ‘Sharknado’: Inside Syfy's Booming B-Movie Factory — Last night, on the Syfy channel's made-for-TV movie Sharknado, Ian Ziering killed an airborne shark with a chain saw. Erik Estrada microwaved a tiny chupacabra in last year's Chupacabra vs. the Alamo.

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Simon Rogers / Twitter Blog:
When a #Sharknado attacks! How the phenomenon happened on Twitter

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Abraham Moussako / Columbia Journalism Review:

Who will bear witness? — Photojournalists share their experiences of covering the Iraq War — Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy, former war correspondent for the Associated Press and founder of the microbrewery, looked back at the Iraq War and discussed the state …

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emptywheel:

In Bid to Placate Legacy Media, DOJ Moves Closer to Instituting Official Press — The First Amendment was written, in part, to eliminate the kind of official press that parrots only the King's sanctioned views. But with its revised “News Media Policies,” DOJ gets us closer to having just that, an official press.

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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

A chat with Lionel Barber — The editor of the Financial Times on what it means to be “digital first” and other topics … Dean Starkman: The FT came up with a strategy called “digital first,” which in the U.S. actually has more than one meaning. In some circles, it's associated with free content …

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:

Hulu isn't being sold, but Time Warner Cable might still nab a stake — While Hulu's owners — 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal, and The Walt Disney Company — said Friday that they won't be selling the streaming video service after months of talks with suitors, they're reportedly …

Discussion: Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg