Mediagazer: ‘Complex’ starts, in a small way, to spend that 25M (Johana Bhuiyan/Capital New York)

8:20 AM ET, October 29, 2013

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They're in Theaters — Netflix made a splash this year by creating its own TV shows and delivering them over the Web. Now it's toying with the same idea for movies. — This summer, the company announced that it in addition …

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Alex Stedman / Variety:

Theater Owners ‘Might Kill Movies,’ Warns Netflix's Sarandos — Content chief calls on studios to release big movies on Netflix day and date with theaters — Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos launched a blistering attack on theater owners for stifling innovation, warning in a speech Saturday that they “might kill movies.”

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Aereo may have 100K subscribers in New York - that could be trouble — Aereo, the start-up that lets people watch over-the-air TV for $8/month, is giving broadcasters fits and delighting consumers looking to break free of over-priced cable bundles. But, until now, no has been quite sure how many people are actually using the service.

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

How NYTimes, Guardian and ProPublica collaborated on the NSA files — The Guardian was the news outlet to break the initial story on mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA), but by the end of August it had joined forces with first the New York Times and then ProPublica.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

SoundCloud Now Reaches 250 Million Visitors In Its Quest To Become The Audio Platform Of The Web — Today at Disrupt Europe, SoundCloud co-founder and CEO Alexander Ljung took the stage to share two new updates and share his thoughts on the music industry, music startups and more.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

Vice Media to get deeper into news with live coverage — Change is coming to Vice Media, the rapidly growing Williamsburg-based multimedia empire that began as an alternative music weekly in Montreal. — In a telephone interview Wednesday, the company's chief creative officer Eddy Moretti told Capital …

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Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

‘Complex’ starts, in a small way, to spend that 25M — Last week when Sasha Hecht announced she was leaving her position as managing editor of Vice's music channel, Noisey, to become the managing editor of Complex Music, she was joining a bit of club. — Hecht joined Vice Media two years ago …

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Media Outlets Embrace Conferences as Profits Rise — Financially struggling media companies are racing to add conferences, festivals and other live events to their business strategy, convinced they can provide a reliable revenue stream and expand the reach of their brands.

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

“Post-Print” Startup Stateless Media Creates Short, Smart Documentaries For The Web — My recent conversation with Stateless Media's Peter Savodnik was a bit discombobulating. He's had what seems like a successful career in longform journalism, with publications in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and elsewhere.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jill Abramson: Politico piece was ‘shoddy,’ ‘nutty’ — In the keynote talk at the Journalism & Women Symposium's Conference and Mentoring Project in Essex, Vt., Saturday, New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson talked about the reaction of women journalists to an April Politico piece that said she was …

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Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

How Vocativ Mines The “Deep Web” For Storytelling — Back in 2012, a group of digital journalists went hunting for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. They tried to track him using a trove of data—like mercenary chatter found on an obscure corner of the web. In the end, they weren't exactly able …

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Disney Show Will Appear First on App for Tablets — LOS ANGELES — A cat in a pink cowboy hat is leading Disney's television operation deeper into the Wild West of mobile viewing, where it hopes to connect with the company's core audience. — Noting that tablet computers like the iPad are increasingly the …