Mediagazer: BBC to Name Head of VOD Service, Treat It Like Fifth TV Channel (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

8:05 AM ET, October 16, 2013

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Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought the Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand new, large-scale, broadly-focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture — (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …

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$40-million round for Vox seals it: Venture capital likes media — Vox's new mega-round puts a bow on content's holy-s**t moment — Today it was revealed that Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation, and Polygon has raised another $40 million of funding.

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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) — “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners' Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs …

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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage — Twitter is changing an old policy that meant that you could only be DM'd by — that is, you could only receive a direct message from — users that you follow. (So if I follow John Doe …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

This just in: why news is Twitter's next frontier — A new ‘experiment’ and a high-profile hire suggest big plans — Twitter is moving more aggressively into the world of journalism, building a new alert system for breaking news and hiring someone to build new partnerships with the media industry.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

BBC to Name Head of VOD Service, Treat It Like Fifth TV Channel — Director of television Danny Cohen discusses possible on-demand offers, expected cost cuts and when broadband delivery of content may supersede broadcasting in the U.K. — LONDON - The BBC is planning to name a controller …

Discussion: Guardian

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings report today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:

Marvel Preps 60-Episode Package Of Four Series & A Mini For VOD & Cable Networks — EXCLUSIVE: The notorious secrecy that surrounds Marvel's projects has been heightened to the nth degree for this one. No one would breathe a word, with rumors that everyone from top to bottom is bound …

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Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

FilmOn Threatened With Contempt of Court — A district court judge on Tuesday threatened to find FilmOn X in contempt of court for beginning to air network affiliates from Boston despite her injunction barring the company from airing network stations outside New York and Massachusetts.

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Ben Quinn / Guardian:

New York Times editor defends journalists over Snowden leaks — Jill Abramson says on BBC's Newsnight that Guardian articles on NSA files are ‘very much in the public interest’ — Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, has mounted a defence of the ability of journalists …

AdAge:

Effort to Split Murdoch From Chairman Role Resumes at 21st Century Fox — Similar Drives Have Fallen Short Before — 21st Century Fox Inc. investors backing a resolution to strip the chairman job from CEO Rupert Murdoch said they have won the support of shareholder-advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Can Journalists Cut It as CEOs? — Reporters are notorious procrastinators, cynical to the core, often disorganized and frequently drunk. Sounds like CEO material. — But there are exceptions to the crude stereotype above. On Sunday, Jim VandeHei, co-founder and executive editor …

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Brent Lang / The Wrap: Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase

Tim Masters / BBC:

Man Booker Prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner with The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton began writing her winning novel when she was 25 — New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Report: Stories about politics inspire best, worst comments — Researchers from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) spoke with online editors and community managers at 104 news organizations from 63 countries to help assemble a report written by Emma Goodman …

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Ellen Hammett / MediaTel:

Nielsen launches ‘multi-screen ad measurement’ in UK — Nielsen has today announced what is being described as a major step forward for multi-platform advertising measurement in the UK, with the launch of Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings. — By combining Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings …

Discussion: Media Week and Guardian

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’ — The ‘journalistic start-up’ and ‘innovations lab’ is looking to incorporate numerous elements of digital journalism into a bi-monthly, tablet-first edition — Copyright: Image by John.Karakatsanis on Flickr. Some rights reserved