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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Nick Denton Makes Peace With the Banner Ad — Excerpts: — What's your take on native ads: good, bad, or don't care? — Native ads are like any other ad: good when they're good, bad when they're bad, and usually indifferent. — Are social ads or native ads the future?
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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Amazon launches interview series on Kindle Singles; first up: President of Israel — Amazon on Thursday launched “The Kindle Singles Interview,” a series of “major long-form interviews with iconic figures and world leaders.” — First up is an interview with Israeli president Shimon Peres …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names — KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.
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Financial Times:
Newly rebranded International NYT focuses on digital — Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the publisher of the International Herald Tribune, holds up a slide from a New York Times Company presentation that shows two photographs of crowds gathered in St Peter's Square for the announcements of a new pope in 2005 and again in 2013.
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Ask FCC to Restrict Gannett's Deal for Belo — The American Cable Assn., Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are objecting to a part of Gannett's proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.'s broadcast stations, saying that the deal threatens to drive up retransmission fees …
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Was Newspaper Decline Inevitable? Veterans Conclude That Yes, It Was — Counter to conventional wisdom, they say advertising went away and there's nothing newspapers could have done about it — A broad study by a group of respected journalists into the disruption that the digital age …
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James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
It's not over for Barnes & Noble. — When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning, there was one obvious conclusion: the company was doomed. After all, the Nook was how B.
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Deadline:
CBS, Time Warner Cable Extend Deadline In Distribution Dispute — The parties have set a new deadline of Monday at 5 PM Eastern to settle their dispute. CBS its stations would have go dark at 9 AM ET Thursday on Time Warner Cable systems in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable, Hulu break off talks: sources
Time Warner Cable, Hulu break off talks: sources
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online ad surge helps offset publisher's print slide — Daily Mail & General Trust says growth in digital revenues is close to outstripping rate of decline in newspaper advertising — The Daily Mail's publisher's digital newspaper revenues, from sites including Mail Online …
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Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear? — On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University student who, for about four hours on the morning of April 19, was mistakenly identified …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Closing Arguments Due in Manning Leaks Case — FORT MEADE, Md. — The court-martial trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose leaks of vast archives of secret government documents to WikiLeaks lifted a veil on American military and diplomatic activities, will begin to draw to a close on Thursday …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
The Independent's journalists warn Lebedev cuts will be ‘tipping point’ — Staff tell owner plans for 27 job losses ‘threaten to tear the heart out of the writing staff’ as they ballot for industrial action — Journalists at the Independent have warned owner Evgeny Lebedev that the latest cuts …
Sally Jackson / The Australian:
ABC to feed traffic to commercial rivals: Scott — THE ABC is to launch a pilot project designed to feed audiences from its websites to those run by commercial media organisations, with managing director Mark Scott saying the public broadcaster wanted to help create a “thriving media ecology"'.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google's TV — Google just demoted your television set into a second screen, a slave to your phone or tablet or laptop. With the $35 Chromecast you can with one click move anything you find on your internet-connected device — YouTube video, Netflix, a web page as well as music and pictures and soon …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV
Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV
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