Mediagazer: New FCC chief orders review of agency procedures (Brendan Sasso/The Hill)

9:10 PM ET, November 5, 2013

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CBS News Defends Its ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report — CBS News, under fire from critics who dispute details in a “60 Minutes” report on the Benghazi attacks last year that was broadcast on Oct. 27, aggressively defended the report's accuracy on Tuesday and the account of its main interview subject.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

TV Investments Drag on 21st Century Fox Profits — In its first three months as a separate company, 21st Century Fox produced revenue that surpassed analysts' expectations, but its profit came in slightly below expectations, reflecting the company's investments in new programming that it says will pay off over the long term.

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

AOL's big Adap.tv buy ignites sales, but it whiffs on profit — If you ask AOL, the third quarter was all about revenue, revenue, revenue — never mind that big miss on profit. In the latest three-month period, the online media company grew advertising dollars at double the rate it did the quarter before …

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Reuters:
AOL ad sales rise, but Patch weighs on profit

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Allan Sloan / Fortune:

How being a tax dummy cost The New York Times $60M — A mistake made 20 years ago cost the Times big during the sale of The Boston Globe. — The New York Times Co's (NYT) purchase of The Boston Globe for more than $1 billion twenty years ago has turned out to be among the worst single newspaper acquisitions in history.

Brendan Sasso / The Hill:

New FCC chief orders review of agency procedures — Tom Wheeler, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has ordered a review of how his agency crafts and enforces regulations. — The review, announced one day after Wheeler was sworn into office, is a nod to legislation …

Discussion: FCC.gov, Adweek, Radio & Television …, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge and NYT Bits

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

AP Taps MediaVoice For Native Ads — The Associated Press is bringing native advertising to its Web site, mobile site and mobile app in partnership with Polar, which operates a native advertising platform for digital publishers called MediaVoice. — The deal allows the AP to deliver native ads …

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Netflix Gets Back Into the Movie Business: Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal? — Netflix is back in the movie business after picking up exclusive distribution rights to “The Square,” Jehane Noujaim's award-winning documentary about recent political tumult in Egypt.

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Jeff Baumgartner / Broadcasting & Cable:

Charter Launches TV Streaming App — iOS app starts with in-home access, but will eventually expand out-of-home and beyond as distribution rights evolve — Charter Communications launched its first mobile TV streaming app on Tuesday, offering a lineup of more than 100 live TV channels in the home …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is AOL Finally Making Money From Content? Maybe! — One of the perennially weird things about AOL is that it's a content company that doesn't make money from content: All of its actual profit has come from subscribers to its old Internet-access business, which still has 2.5 million customers,* who pay $20 a month to get online.

Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:

Fred Hiatt Offered to Quit Jeff Bezos's Washington Post — Jeff Bezos has yet to truly make a mark on his latest acquisition, The Washington Post. In some ways, that shouldn't be a surprise: The deal closed only a month ago. But that doesn't mean that there hasn't been some potential for a shake-up.

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Thomas Grove / Reuters:

Russian police harassed Norwegian journalists reporting on Sochi-rights group — * Pressure on media meant to curb critical reporting- rights group — * Putin has staked his reputation on showcase games — Russian police harassed and detained two Norwegian journalists on their way to Sochi …

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David Zax / Fast Company:

An Article Has A Lifespan Of 37 Days, And Other Findings From Pocket — Spend enough time talking to Nate Weiner, and you begin to realize he has a unique vantage point on web publishing. Whereas we might visit a given site like the New York Times and take a note of what's most popular or shared …

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