Mediagazer: Netflix Gets Assist From TiVo in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup (Bloomberg)

10:40 PM ET, October 14, 2013

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Sony Strikes Production Deal With Netflix — Sony Pictures Television will become the first big Hollywood studio to produce a new TV show for Netflix Inc., underscoring how the TV industry's elite are starting to view the streaming video service as a launch pad for original series.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Netflix, as Easy as Changing the Channel — The television two-step is familiar to nearly every household with a TV set and a Netflix subscription. To watch cable, the television must be on one setting; to browse Netflix, it has to be on another. For some family members …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Bloomberg:

Netflix Gets Assist From TiVo in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup — Netflix Inc. (NFLX:US), pressing cable operators to grant equal footing to its Web-based films and television shows on pay-TV systems, is getting an assist from set-top box maker TiVo Inc. (TIVO:US)

Anna Prior / Wall Street Journal:

Demand Media CEO, Chairman Resigns — Demand Media Inc. (DMD) said its board has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, and has appointed an interim CEO as it begins the search for a permanent replacement shortly and evaluates the timing of its spin-off plan.

Discussion: Reuters and @jayrosen_nyu

Demand Media:

Demand Media Announces Resignation of Richard Rosenblatt as Chairman & CEO; Shawn Colo Appointed Interim CEO; James Quandt Appointed Chairman — SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 14, 2013— Demand Media® (NYSE: DMD) today announced that its board of directors has accepted …

Discussion: AllThingsD, AdExchanger and Variety

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

International New York Times kicks off rebranding with global events and free digital access — ‘International New York Times’ kicks off with events in Paris, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Singapore and more — As readers pick up the final issue today of The International Herald Tribune under the title …

Discussion: @bairdjulia

Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
International Herald Tribune: the paper of the American abroad

Discussion: @danbilefsky, Talking New Media, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post and New York Times

Christine Haughney / New York Times:
A Leaner Times Aims for Global Growth

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Carl Bernstein Plans Memoir on His Cub Reporter Days — The writer Carl Bernstein has struck a deal to write a memoir of his early years as a cub reporter in Washington, his publisher, Henry Holt & Company, said on Monday. — Rather than focusing on his famous tenure at The Washington Post …

Discussion: @juliebosman and @romenesko

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Quartz business model: Free with limited, well-designed ads for top brands — The Quartz Way (2) — Last week, we looked at Atlantic Media's business site Quartz (qz.com) from an editorial and product standpoint. Today, we focus on its business model based on an emerging form of advertising.

Discussion: @filloux and Talking Biz News

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism — ‘If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?’, says the former editor of The Independent — Like many people, I've spent years writing and speaking about the lethal power-subservient pathologies plaguing establishment journalism in the west.

Discussion: @justinraimondo

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Vice CEO on old media: ‘They can go to hell quite frankly.’ — Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, talks about finding success online, his unorthodox approach to news and filming Dennis Rodman in North Korea. — FORTUNE — Born as an indie magazine, Vice Media has morphed …

Discussion: @markkola, @snlevine and @jasonhirschhorn

John Sides / The Monkey Cage:

Media coverage of the 2012 election was fair and balanced after all — A majority of Americans distrust the media. Scholarly assessments of the media are usually no better. And these sentiments often reach fever pitch during a political campaign when the news media are accused …

Discussion: @monkeycageblog, Politico and Wonkblog

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: New ebook markets, battles and pricing strategies — No matter what country they're in, book publishers worldwide share some of the same challenges. They're grappling with the digital transition — which, depending on where you live, has either already arrived or is about to come knocking.

Discussion: @pulpcurry and TeleRead

Michael Sebastian / New York Business:

Hearst to move Country Living's edit staff to Alabama — Hearst Magazine is moving Country Living's editorial operations to Birmingham, Ala., from its current location in New York, the company said Monday. Current edit staffers, who learned of the news Monday afternoon, will not make the move.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, MinOnline and FishbowlNY

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

Post Mortem — A (somewhat premature) newspaper autopsy. — If the New York Post should ever close its doors, after a two-century-plus history, the man most responsible for this will be Chase Carey, who has been chief operating officer of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for a dozen years.