Mediagazer: Hulu Wants to Be Offered With Pay-TV Bundles (Wall Street Journal)

10:10 AM ET, November 13, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Departures Heighten Concerns About Staff Retention — NEW YORK — When New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson was in negotiations this past summer to keep stats guru Nate Silver at the paper, his agent remarked that his client was “the prettiest girl at the party.”

Discussion: Politico, FishbowlNY, Forbes, The New York Observer, @tomgara, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, FishbowlDC, @sulliview, @dkthomp, Big News Network.com, Capital New York and @brianstelter

Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

Don't Panic! The ‘Times’ Is Losing Staff, But It Will Be Fine — In August, reporting an article about The New York Times' future, I spoke to Sam Sifton, the former national editor now in charge of various nascent digital initiatives that the paper hopes will allow it to secure more paying customers.

Discussion: Yahoo News and Poynter

Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Editor of Times Magazine to Step Down at Year's End

Discussion: @phileil, @kateaurthur, mUmBRELLA, @sternbergh, @mysecondempire, The Wrap and Poynter

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Abramson to name Lindgren's replacement by year's end; inside and outside candidates being considered

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
14 People Who Should Run The ‘New York Times’ Mag

Discussion: bookforum.com, @markarms, FishbowlNY, Politico, LA Observed, @moorehn, Capital New York and @alexmleo

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries — Google has become so big that sometimes it's difficult to understand just how big it is. It's on course to do $60 billion in revenue this year, almost all of that from advertising. But how big is that in terms of the media it competes against for ad dollars?

Discussion: Forbes and BGR

Bronwen Clune / Guardian:

So Twitter is ruining journalism? Really? — The Australian newspaper published an editorial referring to journalists using Twitter as a ‘path to ruin’. It couldn't be more wrong — There is no quicker way for old institutions to look irrelevant than to insist on their relevance.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out slick new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes and game consoles — Netflix rolled out a big revamp of its user interface for smart TVs and connected devices Tuesday night, moving away from a grid of box shot covers towards a much more visual interface …

Discussion: Netflix US & Canada Blog, @dcaunt, AllThingsD, CNET, @dalmaer and Variety

Angela Watercutter / Wired:
Netflix's New Look Is a Glimpse at the Future of TV

Discussion: USA Today

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Wants to Be Offered With Pay-TV Bundles — Online Video Outlet Could Be Centralized Location for Full Seasons of Shows … Online video outlet Hulu LLC is in early discussions with several pay-TV providers about potential partnerships, said people familiar with the situation …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Why we are moving our media coverage over to Gigaom — This is the last post we'll publish on paidContent as we move our media coverage under one Gigaom umbrella and a new Media channel. — As one of the last remaining independent tech media startups, we have a keen interest in the future of the media business.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Folio, @mathewi, @sdkstl, @sdkstl, @sdkstl, WebProNews, @rafat, @msbrumfield and @thestalwart

Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:

“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap — “I didn't even have to go into the room to see who it was,” a man calling himself Morgan Jones told Lara Logan, of “60 Minutes,” on October 27th, remembering how he had glimpsed a body through the glass in a door.

Discussion: Pressing Issues, Personanondata, The Huffington Post and Mother Jones

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CBS News and reporter Lara Logan face brutal criticism on flawed Benghazi report

Discussion: @michaeldweiss, @jayrosen_nyu, @katrinanation, @amyargetsinger, @rlocker12, @toddgregory and @saralibby

Chris Hughes / The New Republic:

A Year and a Half Later... What's new at The New Republic — What's new at The New Republic — Today we are launching The New Republic's company blog, New Republic Home News. From time to time, we will use this space to give readers a sense of what's going on inside the company.

Discussion: @rmantri

John Reynolds / Guardian:

Independent's redesign lifts circulation — Relaunch of newspaper on Thursday 7 November led to rise in sales of around 3,000 compared to previous week — The Independent is understood to have enjoyed a circulation lift of around 3,000 copies on the day of its redesign …

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Nikki Finke demands $3.5M for breakup with Deadline — The divorce battle between Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke and publishing entrepreneur Jay Penske is starting to look like 1979's “Kramer vs. Kramer.” — The two are locked in a growing legal fight over whether Finke is entitled …

Discussion: @nikkifinke

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

Inside Ad Tech Fraud: Confessions of a Fake Web Traffic Buyer — Online advertising has a fraud problem. Millions of ad impressions are being served to bots and non-human traffic, and ad tech companies are doing little to stop it. Digiday spoke with a former publishing executive …

Discussion: @digiday, AdExchanger, @benkunz, Beyond Search, New York Times, Business Insider and MarketingVox News & Trends

David Meyer / Gigaom:

On-demand photography outfit Scoopshot pulls in $3.9M to expand internationally — A lot of money is going into trying to disrupt the stock photography market - something investors hope will be possible through advances in the quality of smartphone cameras.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mobile Entertainment and Scoopshot

Raphael Satter / Washington Post:

Scotland Yard pursuing a criminal investigation following intelligence leaks to the Guardian — LONDON — A specialist unit of Britain's biggest police force is pursuing a criminal investigation following the leak of classified intelligence material to the Guardian newspaper …

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

Sony beefed up Video and Music Unlimited so that you'll use them instead of Amazon, Vudu — Sony's Video Unlimited on the PlayStation 4. — NEW YORK CITY — Think about how you watch movies or listen to music on your devices. Like many others, you probably use Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, and Amazon.

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Why Lockhart Steele Sold Curbed to Vox — Digital media startup Vox Media, parent to SB Nation, The Verge and Polygon, will acquire the Curbed suite of blogs — Curbed, Eater, Racked — in a deal that was reported to have been in the neighborhood of $20-$30 million.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Jim Romenesko:

E.W. Scripps restructures its Washington bureau, acquires DecodeDC … E.W. Scripps announced this afternoon that its newspaper-focused Washington bureau “will be reconfigured to be a leading investigative storyteller on all the Scripps-owned media platforms — television, digital and print.”

Discussion: E.W Scripps Company

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again. — There's not much need to debate cord-cutting anymore: The pay-TV industry is losing subscribers. — But we still don't have a handle on the rate of loss, nor the reason for that loss. — If you're in the pay-TV business …

Discussion: @garyfung and AdAge