Mediagazer: Rieder: The lost magic of Tina Brown (Rem Rieder/USA Today)

6:10 AM ET, September 12, 2013

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways — A source with direct knowledge of the situation says IAC does not plan to renew Tina Brown's contract when it expires in January. A decision has not yet been made on the future of The Daily Beast. — Jason Kempin / FilmMagic

David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:

Tina Brown's Next Big Move — After five years at The Daily Beast, the irrepressible editor is leaving to build her own company. David Freedlander reports. — The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced to the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon that she will be leaving the five-year-old online outfit.

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Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Rieder: The lost magic of Tina Brown — I'll never forget the advice about putting out magazines I got from Tina Brown. It was more than 20 years ago, and I had just become editor of American Journalism Review. We had an annual readers' poll, and in their infinite wisdom the AJR subscribers …

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Tina Brown to leave Daily Beast, start new company

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

NAA will stop releasing quarterly figures on ad revenues, which have consistently declined — The Newspaper Association of America has reported a decline in industry ad revenues every three months since a modest gain in the second quarter of 2006. That adds up to six-and-a-half years …

Discussion: Newspaper Association …, @anthonyha, @rickedmonds, @jackshafer, @georgeprof, @rajunarisetti and @dangillmor

Pandora:

Pandora Names Brian McAndrews Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman — Pandora (NYSE:P), today announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Brian McAndrews, formerly of Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft and aQuantive, to succeed Joe Kennedy as Chief Executive Officer …

Discussion: TechCrunch, AdExchanger, @pkafka, @yinkawrites, VentureBeat, AdAge, CNET, Forbes and The Verge

Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times blogs:

MSN cutting number of contractors, increasing full-time employees — Microsoft is cutting the number of contractors who work at MSN as part of the large company-wide reorganization announced in July. — The company did not say how many contractor positions are being cut but did say that different vendors …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Hollywood Reporter

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Steve Burke: NBC ‘Significantly’ Lags in Profits, Needs More Ads, Higher Ratings — NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Wednesday that NBC “is significantly behind” its rivals in profitability and needs higher ratings and more ad sales. — Burke said ABC, CBS and Fox all are making …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and Home Media Magazine

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

ABC executive: second screen apps can be a distraction — Second-screen apps used to be all the rage with TV executives just a few years ago, but Disney's Digital EVP Albert Cheng's network is moving away from the idea to complement shows with second screen experiences.

Pax Dickinson / Medium:

On Being @paxdickinson … I'm Pax Dickinson, founder of Glimpse, a forthcoming encryption based ephemeral picture messaging app. Preregistration is up at MyFOIA.com and I'm really excited about starting something new, it's going to be... But that's not what you're here for.

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

Netflix, Amazon drive up price for Hollywood content, conferees told — The effects of Netflix and Amazon are felt throughout the market, Shawn Strickland, chief executive of Redbox Instant by Verizon, said at the Broadcasting & Cable's NextTV Summit. (Netflix)

Guardian:

How Lord Patten fell from grace as BBC Trust chairman — This time last year he was pre-eminent, but the former Hong Kong governor now faces criticism over a string of scandals — With a CV that includes prominent roles with the Conservative party, Oxford University …

Guardian:
Maria Miller issues final warning to BBC Trust after ‘annus horribilis’

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Dena Levitz / Mediashift:

Donation, Patron Services Help Fans Support Their Favorite Authors — Jack Conte has upwards of 160,000 subscribers to his YouTube page. Each of his uploaded music videos are viewed at least 100,000 times, which comes to a whopping million monthly views. Yet advertising revenue …

Discussion: @pbsmediashift and @marty_lang

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

USA Today Sports goes Quickish with The Q — The USA Today Sports Media Group is out with a new sports news and analysis aggregator called The Q. It's human-backed aggregation, with a focus for now on NFL news from beat writers and columnists from around the sports journalism world. As they put it:

Discussion: PR Newswire

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Fight with CBS cost Time Warner Cable subscribers — Time Warner Cable says it lost subscribers after CBS pulled the signals of its local TV stations in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Cable lost subscribers when CBS pulled the signals of its local TV stations in New York …

Discussion: Deadline.com, @jbflint, @greavespg and Hollywood Reporter

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Vladimir Putin Writes Intense New York Times Op-Ed — Calls Out American Exceptionalism — This is a surprise. Russian President Vladimir Putin is the author of a new op-ed in the New York Times titled: A Plea For Caution From Russia. — The piece urges against a strike in Syria …

Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:

Vivendi Edges Closer to Split With Bollore as Deputy Chairman — Vivendi SA (VIV) moved closer to a long-discussed plan to split its telecommunications business from media assets, marking another sweeping reorganization of the former French utility. — Bowing to investor pressure to overhaul …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and DealBook

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Music service Piki.fm to shut down, founders to concentrate on revamped Turntable instead — The team behind Piki.fm, the music recommendation radio service, announced today via e-mail that the service would be shutting down, a move that's effective as of the end of September.

Discussion: Valleywag, hypebot and The Next Web