Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:20 AM ET, September 26, 2013

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Liberty Media CEO Sees Benefits in A La Carte Proposal  —  Greg Maffei says a bill from Sen. John McCain has “many positive attributes” and discusses Charter's cable consolidation plans.  —  While most TV network owners have spoken out against a la carte pricing of pay TV channels …
RELATED:
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:   Malone Says Reaching Time Warner Cable Deal Still Makes Sense
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Jeff Bezos: Are You Throwing a Party for Your Guests — or for Yourself?  —  Amazon CEO Talks with ABC News about The Washington Post and Customer-Centricity  —  Amazon founder-CEO Jeff Bezos has some new Kindles to sell — which, so far, have been well-received.
Discussion: The Wrap and AllThingsD
RELATED:
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Strikes Deal With NFL  —  Football League Will Produce Short, Ad-Supported Highlights Site  —  The National Football League has reached a deal with Twitter Inc. to make football highlights and other content available on the social- media service, the latest big partnership aimed …
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Rieder: Support crucial for non-profit journalism  —  Steve Waldman has a modest proposal for securing the future of non-profit news outlets.  How about if companies that have flourished in the new economy — think Apple, Google, Verizon — stepped up to the plate and subsidized …
Katelyn Belyus / Folio:
Winning the Paywall Debate  —  Paywalls have their detractors, but here's one publisher's case in favor.  —  We're doing something revolutionary at The Nation: we're finally testing different paywall strategies.  Sharing this is like dumping my purse on the table of a restaurant—it's a mixed bag of embarrassment and pride.
Adam Taylor / Business Insider:
Iranian News Agency Accuses CNN Of Fabricating Translation In Which President Rouhani Acknowledged The Holocaust  —  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's trip to New York for the U.N. General Assembly has been observed closely, with many wondering if he will take the same hardline approach …
Randall Palmer / Reuters:
Canadian regulators team up to watch telecoms pricing  —  (Reuters) - Two of Canada's top regulators said on Wednesday they would cooperate to ensure affordable prices for telecommunications and broadcasting services, a key platform of the federal government's telecommunications policy.
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
How many people really pay for digital news?  —  Now that roughly a third of the nation's newspapers are charging for access to their web and mobile content, the early evidence suggests that digital audiences aren't nearly as enthusiastic about paying for news as publishers are about charging for it.
Discussion: @niemanlab and @emilysteel
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix exec: HBO would have many more customers if it sold online-only subscriptions  —  HBO has long said that it has no plans to sell subscriptions directly over the internet, but Netflix CFO David Wells suggested Wednesday at a Goldman Sachs conference that the cable channel should rethink that decision.
Discussion: Consumerist and WebProNews
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Branded and owned by GE, run by Atlantic Media Strategies, Ideas Lab is a test for brand journalism  —  Brock Meeks remembers a time when online journalism of any stripe made media types as wary and disgruntled as sponsored content makes them today.  Meeks, a ten-year veteran of MSNBC …
Discussion: @niemanlab and Ideas Lab
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Is Newt Gingrich breaking CNN's rules?  —  Just weeks into his new role, CNN Crossfire host Newt Gingrich has already broken some ethical rules set forth by the network's executive vice president of standards and practices, according to a new report from Media Matters For America, the liberal watchdog group.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Pinterest sees growing number of journalists using the site, makes related changes  —  Oh, How Pinteresting!  —  Pinterest introduced new article pins Tuesday; links to articles you've pinned can include a story's headline and byline, plus a description as well as a link.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Debuts Emergency Alerts Service  —  Here's another use case for Twitter, the social network that wants to be everywhere: Emergency service aid.  —  The company on Wednesday unveiled its Alerts service, a way for agencies to deliver “accurate information from credible organizations” during times of crisis.
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Sudan loses Internet access — and it looks like the government is behind it  —  Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed reports Wednesday that Sudan has been cut off from the Internet.  Al Arabiya reported earlier Wednesday morning that Internet access was cut and schools …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
This American Watchdog?  CIR and PRX pilot a radio show highlighting investigative reporting  —  The Center for Investigative Reporting is partnering with PRX to produce a pilot for a radio show called Reveal.  The hour-long show will focus on investigative reporting and the behind-the-scenes process of producing it.
Discussion: @cironline and @niemanlab
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
As Goodreads grows up, it can't please everyone.  Should it try?  —  Goodreads, a social networking site for book lovers, has grown a lot since its acquisition by Amazon earlier this year.  And as it adds members, it's facing some of the same challenges that big online communities like Twitter and Reddit have experienced before it.
Jesse Walker / Hit & Run:
Belgian Racist Uses Spurious Copyright Claim to Censor Libertarian Websites  —  Two left-libertarian organizations, the Center for a Stateless Society and Students for a Stateless Society, are fending off a bigot who believes his critics don't have a right to quote his words while criticizing him.
Discussion: @jackwilliambell and Techdirt
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Wall Street Journal’ editor Gerard Baker decries native advertising as a ‘Faustian pact’  —  Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker took to a podium last night and warned of the dangers of “native advertising,” a big buzzword these days describing the practice of presenting brand-generated content in the style of editorial.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Lloyd's List, the world's oldest newspaper, to give up on print  —  Lloyd's List, which lays claim to be the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, is to become a totally digital entity by the end of this year.  —  The paper, founded in 1734, is regarded as the leading news …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 1:20 AM ET, September 26, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Eliza Brooke / TechCrunch:
Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing
Discussion: VentureBeat and Raanan Bar-Cohen
Mahesh Sharma / TechCrunch:
Verdict On Pakistan YouTube Ban Delayed As Case Is Moved To High Court Full Bench
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC rated UK's top source for news
Discussion: @marcsettle
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
USA Today's Larry Kramer: Newspapers must aid discovery and deliver unique content to survive
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
News UK issues tough new guidance on illegal payments including whistblowers' hotline
Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:
Belo Said to Have 70% Shareholder Support for Gannett Offer
 Earlier Picks: 
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mark Thompson: more financial scrutiny could undermine BBC
Agence France-Presse:
Morocco journalist charged with inciting ‘terrorism’
Discussion: Agence France Presse and Reuters
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC to Propose Rule That May Limit Media Ownership
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
If Popular Science cares about science, why not try to fix comments instead of killing them?
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
AOL CEO Leads Charge to Pry Ad Dollars From TV
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest