Mediagazer: Of media typhoons and media tycoons (Jack Shafer)

3:25 PM ET, September 21, 2013

Top News:

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Daily Beast Will Continue Post-Tina Brown, Embrace Digital (Exclusive) — Barry Diller does not intend to shut the Daily Beast, but is looking to make the site much more digitally savvy going forward, TheWrap has learned. — According to a highly-placed insider, Diller still very much believes …

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The Daily Beast:

The Daily Beast Roars On — With readership surging 22 percent, The Daily Beast's parent company says the site will continue ahead into 2014. — “The Daily Beast is not for sale and is not closing,” Rhona Murphy, interim CEO of The Daily Beast, told the staff today in an internal memo.

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Laura Amico / Nieman Journalism Lab:

From Homicide Watch to education, testing a new kind of structured journalism — The question started almost as soon as Homicide Watch D.C. launched. “Can you do this with education?” editor after editor asked. — This week, after three years of focusing on violent crime …

Discussion: @hasitshah, @brendanhowley and Big News Network.com

Jack Shafer:

Of media typhoons and media tycoons — In the 1993 debut issue of Wired magazine, founding editor Louis Rossetto predicted that the media and other industries would be whipped like a “Bengali typhoon” by digital change. As it turns out, Rossetto underestimated the impending mayhem.

Discussion: @tcarmody, @georgedearing, @ksablan and @abossone

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

At NPR, a New Host and a Move Westward — CULVER CITY, Calif. — The weekend broadcasts of “All Things Considered” are heading West. — At an underutilized NPR office here, the famed afternoon program will reboot itself on Saturday with a new host, Arun Rath, a new time zone and even a rearrangement of its brassy theme music.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Emmys Highlight a Changing TV Industry — LOS ANGELES — The Emmy Awards have witnessed many new players on the red carpet over the years, but there has never been a gate-crasher quite like Netflix. — Its “House of Cards” is nominated for outstanding drama, the first time that a program distributed …

Discussion: @brianstelter and @jimmaiella

David Holmes / PandoDaily:

Why AllThingsD's Twitter audience will follow Swisher, not the brand — Earlier today, Adam Penenberg summed up the Dow Jones / AllThingsD divorce by writing that News Corp keeps the house (the AllThingsD brand) while Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg get the kids (the ATD staff).

Discussion: @buzzfeedben

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Murdoch Said to Object to AllThingsD Terms After 2007 Takeover

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Reuters:

Nielsen wins U.S. approval for Arbitron deal, with conditions — (Reuters) - Television ratings giant Nielsen Holdings NV won U.S. antitrust approval on Friday to buy Arbitron Inc, a company which dominates radio ratings measurement. — The Federal Trade Commission said in a statement late …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Deadline.com and Federal Trade Commission

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Music labels can press Vimeo on copyright claims — judge denies “safe harbor” — The long-running fight over who is responsible for removing copyrighted content on video sites took a new twist as a New York federal judge refused to throw out a case against Vimeo, a popular site that lets users share clips.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home — For the first time ever, customers of Verizon's FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they're out of their homes, and disconnected from their home's Wi-Fi network.

Discussion: SlashGear, Broadcasting & Cable, Engadget, GigaOM and The Verge

Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal:

News Corp Earnings: Split-Off Company Posts Profit — News Corp posted a profit for the fiscal year ended in June as the publishing company released results after its separation from 21st Century Fox Inc. in that same month. — News Corp owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, @alexweprin, The Wrap, Deadline.com and Bloomberg

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Republicans trust media more than they did last year — Thirty-three percent of Republicans surveyed by Gallup in 2013 said they had a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in the news media. That's hardly a ringing defense of the Fourth Estate, but it's higher than last year, when 26 percent of Republicans said the same.

Discussion: @poynter, FishbowlNY, TVNewser, TVSpy, Gallup and Online NewsHour