Mediagazer: Exclusive - Comcast to sell movies for download, streaming: sources (Lisa Richwine/Reuters)

12:30 PM ET, November 15, 2013

Top News:

Forbes Media Is Exploring Sale of 96-Year-Old Magazine Publisher — Forbes Media LLC, the closely held publisher run by former U.S presidential candidate Steve Forbes, is exploring a sale after getting interest from potential buyers. — The New York-based publisher of 96-year-old Forbes magazine …

Discussion: AdAge, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Folio, The Wrap, Capital New York, @jackshafer, @rosental, @edmundlee, @mathewi, @emorwee, @hblodget, @mathewi and @rafat

Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:

Forbes staff receives memo confirming company is ‘[testing] the waters regarding a sale’ — Confirming an alert from Bloomberg News, Forbes Media President and CEO Mike Perlis just sent a memo to staff that says the company is looking at offers. — We'll have more soon: on Twitter …

Discussion: Poynter

brian abelson:

The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement — This is the second in a series of two posts about pageviews. This post details some research I've conducted on the promotional correlates of the metric, while the previous post discussed the sometimes apocalyptic tone …

Discussion: @stkonrath, @mtigas, @tcarmody, @opennews, @jordancrusoe, @brianabelson, @alvinschang and Talking Biz News

Felix Salmon:

How the NYT neglects business journalism — Brian Abelson has a fantastic post about the performance of NYT articles. The main gist is that it's possible to predict with surprising accuracy how many pageviews any given NYT article is going to receive, given just a few variables like the amount …

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @patrickgower, @seythal and @ivorytowerjourn

New York Times:

British Press Freedom Under Threat — Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Discussion: @nytimescohen, Guardian and @lukeharding1968

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust

Discussion: Press Gazette and @hackedoffhugh

Olivier Laurent / British Journal of Photography:

French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers — To coincide with Paris Photo's opening, French newspaper Libération has chosen to remove all images from its 14 November issue in a bid to show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry …

Discussion: Poynter, Politico, The Huffington Post, Guardian, @babsphoto, The Verge and @grafikmag

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Lunch with the FT: Henry Blodget — A decade after being banned from Wall Street, the former internet analyst now runs a business website. He talks about redemption, regrets and market madness — ©James Ferguson — According to family legend, Henry Blodget's great-grandfather …

Discussion: PandoDaily and @hblodget

Natasha Vargas-Cooper / BuzzFeed:

David Miranda Is Nobody's Errand Boy — When Glenn Greenwald's 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn't understand.

Discussion: Poynter, @danielcassidy, @juliaangwin, @kgosztola and @ggreenwald

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Kevin Delaney Tinkers With Media at Quartz — This is the second installment in a series that will profile four young executives rethinking the publishing business. This series is sponsored by Sonobi, the first and only digital advertising platform created by digital publishers for publishers.

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Memo: It Took Three Weeks For The Washington Post's Viral Site To Become Its Biggest Blog — The Post 's Upworthy-inspired viral site, KnowMore, is already among its most popular web properties. Once again: Do not underestimate the power of the curiosity gap.

Discussion: The Switch and @markarms

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Harper's Magazine launches iOS app, holds tight to paid strategy — Harper's Magazine, a literary publication so old-school that it offers links to microfiche for stories it publishes online, is today launching an iOS app edition of its monthly magazine. — The app retains the look and feel …

Discussion: Gigaom

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

The Newsonomics of the Surprisingly Persistent Appeal of Newsprint — First published at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab — Tonnage. The word speaks to a different age of news media when ink, bought by barrel, and newsprint, bought by the ton, ruled. Newspapers — in print …

Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

On the Ethics of Data-Driven Journalism: of fact, friction and public records in a more transparent age — While ethics in journalism have been defined and upheld for decades, the context they're practiced within has shifted with changes in technology and society.

Discussion: @dbarthjones and Kirk LaPointe's …

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Plans to Start Selling Movies Digitally Through Cable Service — Comcast Corp. is planning to start selling movies directly through its cable boxes, according to people with knowledge of its plans, a move that could boost the still nascent market considered critical in Hollywood.

Discussion: Bloomberg, TechnoBuffalo, Corporate Intelligence, The Wrap, Variety, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Exclusive - Comcast to sell movies for download, streaming: sources

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Light Reading, Electronista, Gigaom and DSLreports

RT:

Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond sentenced to ten years in jail — Internet activist Jeremy Hammond who pleaded guilty to hacking servers of the private intelligence company Statfor and leaking its information to anti-secrecy site, WikiLeaks, was sentenced to ten years in jail on Friday, November 15.

Discussion: Associated Press and Trust.org

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

‘The Simpsons’ Lands $750 Mil Cable, VOD Syndication Pact with FXX — Deal for 530-plus episodes of enduring Fox toon marks largest off-network sale ever — Homer and Co. are in rolling in dough: Fox's Twentieth Century Fox TV and Twentieth TV have set a massive first-ever cable syndication …

Discussion: New York Times and Los Angeles Times

The Authors Guild:

Round One to Google: Judge Chin Finds Mass Book Digitization a Fair Use. Guild Plans Appeal. — Judge Denny Chin today ruled that Google's mass book digitization project to be a fair use, granting the company summary judgment in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild in 2005.

Discussion: Wired, Memex 1.1, ABA Journal Daily News, ZDNet, Bookseller news, Businessweek, Search Engine Land, Forbes, The Week, Online NewsHour, Talking New Media, Gigaom, CNET and Reuters

Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Upholds Legality of Google Books: Tremendous Victory for Fair Use and the Public Interest

Discussion: New York Times, The Switch, Motherboard and Forbes

Sara Deseran / San Francisco magazine:

What's Really Happening to the Chronicle's Food Section? — The paper's managing editor Audrey Cooper clears things up. — Audrey Cooper, the managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, came to the defense of the paper yesterday when the New York Times reported that the Chronicle's lauded …

Discussion: Poynter, @sanfranmag, @jonsteinberg31, The New York Observer, NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY

Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:

Details Emerge on Dispute Between Dish Network CEO, Directors — Lawsuit Suggests Board Members Took Issue with Charlie Ergen during LightSquared Review — Two Dish Network Corp. directors in charge of evaluating a potential Dish bid for a telecommunications firm took issue with how their committee …