Mediagazer: Looking Past ‘The Prism Of Fear’: News Corp's Data Leader On the End of the Pageview Era (Sam Petulla/The Content Strategist)

12:40 AM ET, November 7, 2013

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Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services — Blockbuster to close remaining U.S. company-owned stores, DVD By Mail services by early-January 2014 — ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov 06, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) —Franchised and licensed stores in the U.S. and abroad to remain open for business

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Internet Kills the Video Store — Blockbuster, which had more than 9,000 retail stores across America nine short years ago, will close the few hundred video-rental stores that it still has, the company's owner, Dish Network, said Wednesday in a bittersweet but long-expected announcement.

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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Jeff Bewkes: HBO's Streaming Deal With Comcast Won't Promote Cord Cutting — Time Warner startled a lot of people recently when it allowed the No. 1 cable operator to include HBO Go in a new $40 a month broadband service. Wouldn't some consumers cancel their pay TV service if they found …

Discussion: The Verge and Gigaom

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc. Spinoff Timing Delayed — It looks like Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp will have some more time to prepare for the publisher's spinoff from Time Warner. The split is now expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2014, Time Warner chairman Jeff Bewkes said during an earnings conference call.

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner's Profit Tops Estimates as Network Revenue Gains

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

THE COST OF WINNING: Tim Armstrong, Patch, And The Struggle To Save AOL — On an overcast Friday afternoon last August, a hundred or so employees of AOL's local news subsidiary, Patch, crammed into a cafeteria at the company's headquarters in Manhattan. Another several hundred connected to the room via conference call.

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Earnings: CBS Meets Q3 Expectations After Time Warner Cable Fight — CBS Corp. emerged from its third-quarter fight with Time Warner Cable matching Wall Street's earnings expectations. — CBS CEO Les Moonves told investors in a conference call that the success reflected the network's emphasis on content.

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies ‘appalling and foolish’ — Inventor of world wide web calls for debate about ‘dysfunctional and unaccountable’ oversight of NSA and GCHQ — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the world wide web, has called for a …

Discussion: CNET, Salon, BBC and @genn4dy

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Michael Bloomberg's post-mayoral day-job will be at Bloomberg View — Michael Bloomberg is getting back into the media business. — The outgoing three-term mayor of New York is planning to return to his namesake Bloomberg L.P. in a role that will see him primarily involved in its online opinion offering …

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter announces IPO pricing of $26 per share with a valuation of $18.3 billion — Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will price its IPO at $26 per share when it begins trading on Thursday. The company plans to sell 70 million shares out of a total of 545 million outstanding shares.

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Jack Marshall / Digiday:

How BuzzFeed Gives Native Ads a Traffic Boost — The story of modern media is wrapped up in this situation: “Native advertising” sometimes needs its own advertising for people to see it. — The problem with advertiser content on BuzzFeed and other publisher sites is that users just aren't always eager to consume it.

Discussion: @raju, @juliancole, @jbenton, @antderosa and @digiday

Alistair Barr / USA Today:

Amazon cozies up to book stores to sell Kindle devices — Amazon executive says new Amazon Source program will help physical stores be more relevant to customers. But Amazon needs physical store partners too — CONNECT — Amazon.com is turning to some of its natural rivals …

Discussion: Amazon.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Publishers Weekly, @tcarmody, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Ben Cardew / Guardian:

Pitchfork Weekly - a digital magazine paying homage to the past — The new Android and iOS app is a weekly digital magazine of the music website that's part of a trend of emulating print rivals — Music press lovers: are you feeling nostalgic for the days of inky fingers …

Discussion: Audience Development, hypebot and Mashable

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Pinterest Hires San Francisco Chronicle President Joanne Bradford to Lead Advertiser and Media Partnerships (Updated) — If Pinterest's recent advertising test with “promoted pins” wasn't a clear enough sign that it's ready to generate some revenue, its latest hire surely is.

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

How geolocation is being used to promote magazine apps — Music Week is now free when downloaded from Abbey Road and The Gooner is free at the Emirates Stadium — Copyright: Image courtesy of Exact Editions — Exact Editions, which packages magazine apps for publishers …

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Sam Petulla / The Content Strategist:

Looking Past ‘The Prism Of Fear’: News Corp's Data Leader On the End of the Pageview Era — Remember when pageviews were the dominate metric of the Internet? Today, with publishers rapidly de-prioritizing page views, it's starting to feel like an artifact of bygone days of the web, when “Mobile” was just a city down south.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the shopping of Press+ and the coming of Paywalls 2.0 — In April 2009, when Journalism Online began operations, its business — providing the backend for websites offering different kinds of paywalls — was largely derided. Two years later, when the company …

Discussion: Yahoo! Finance and Big News Network.com

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Nikki Finke Out for Blood at New Homepage — Nikki Finke's new site will be out for blood — if its new intro page is any indication. — “NikkiFinke.com is coming to Hollywood,” reads the site, which for now is just a homepage teaser. “Come for the cynicism. Stay for the subversion.

Discussion: Variety and @nikkifinke

Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:

Nexstar to Acquire Seven Grant Stations For $87.5 Million — WFXR Roanoke, WZDX Huntsville among the stations growing broadcast group to pick up — Nexstar Broadcasting Group has agreed to acquire seven TV stations from Grant Company for $87.5 million. Simultaneous with that agreement …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and TVNewsCheck.com

Politico:

Rand Paul meets with Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes — Sen. Rand Paul, who's made no secret of exploring a 2016 presidential run, recently met privately with News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and Fox News head Roger Ailes, POLITICO has learned. — The meetings — Paul sat down with each man separately …

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