Mediagazer: An Old Media Veteran Goes Digital at Glam Media (Keach Hagey/Corporate Intelligence)

1:00 PM ET, November 21, 2013

Top News:

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

With New Streaming Deal, Amazon Keeps Pressure on Netflix — LOS ANGELES — The Web streaming battles continue: Amazon, a competitor to Netflix, announced a deal on Thursday morning to add releases from one of Hollywood's most attention-grabbing independent film companies to its Prime service.

Discussion: Variety

Ben Miller / Puget Sound Business Journal:
Amazon makes deal with A24 film studio

Discussion: Deadline.com, bizjournals and The Next Web

Erik Wemple:

Politico's Mike Allen, native advertising pioneer — Introducing: The “Playbook” game! — Politico Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen writes “Playbook,” a daily e-mail newsletter featuring stories from Politico and other outlets, various “exclusives,” tips and birthday notices.

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Media protests White House photo ban — The White House Correspondents Association and several leading media outlets have sent a letter to the White House protesting its policy of banning photographers from covering the president at certain events. — “As surely as if they were placing …

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, TheBlaze.com and NPPA

Associated Press:

Carovillano is named managing editor for U.S. news — Brian Carovillano, who has been AP's Bangkok-based Asia-Pacific news director, today was named managing editor for U.S. news, a role that encompasses the 50 state news reports and other key responsibilities.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, @testawong and Poynter

Michael P. Hill / NewscastStudio:

Gannett stations switch to USA Today look online — A select number of Gannett stations have debuted new websites that use the same look and feel as its parent company's flagship newspaper USA Today. — NewscastStudio noted back in October that Gannett switched its Rochester …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Liz Spayd named editor-in-chief of ‘CJR’ — Liz Spayd has been named editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journalism Review, Capital has learned. — The Washington Post alumna replaces Cyndi Stivers, who resigned in May to take a job as editor-in-chief of AOL.com.

Discussion: @joepompeo

Leila Abboud / Reuters:

Cable group Liberty Global not sure mobile ‘a must-have’ — (Reuters) - Liberty Global, Europe's biggest cable group will sell mobile services as part of all-inclusive bundles across its 12 markets in the coming years but is not yet convinced that such so-called quadruple-play offers are a big attraction.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

In Case You Thought BuzzFeed Needed More GIFs, The Site Launches A GIF Feed Sponsored By Google+ — Do you sometimes read BuzzFeed and think, “This is great, but why is all this text getting in the way of the funny GIFs?” If so, there's a perfect new section for you, called the GIF Feed.

Kristin Bergman / Digital Media Law Project:

Cyborg Journalists: How Google Glass Can Change Journalism — in - United States - Newsgathering - Recording Others — Wearable technology is creeping into society, gradually finding its way onto the street and into the gym, offices, classrooms, and more.

Discussion: ReadWrite and @niemanlab

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The NYT prepares new digital products and a new, cheaper subscription model for 2014 — The newsonomics of The New York Times' Paywalls 2.0 — Listen to Mark Thompson and you hear echoes of early 2011. — “We have the theory. We've done the research. We've done the modeling,” the New York Times Co. CEO told me last week.

Discussion: USA Today, @kyleykim and Newsonomics

Guardian:

Google's Eric Schmidt predicts end of censorship within a decade — Excecutive chairman says solution lies in internet connectivity and encrypting everyone — Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: censorship around the world could end in a decade …

Discussion: @mathewi

Nida Najar / India Ink:

Newsmagazine's Handling of Sex Harassment Complaint Draws Criticism — NEW DELHI — The newsmagazine Tehelka has made a name for itself through its aggressive investigative journalism, going after corrupt politicians and other lawbreakers. On Thursday, however, the publication …

Discussion: Hindustan Times, @india_msm, @kiranks and Firstpost

Evie Nagy / Fast Company:

Pitchfork To Launch $19.96 Print Publication, “The Pitchfork Review” — When Pitchfork launched in 1996, Internet music criticism (or Internet anything) was virtually non-existent, and Pitchfork.com grew into arguably the most influential brand in online music coverage.

Discussion: @toddowyoung and hypebot

Ted Johnson / Variety:

MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd's Compensation Was $3.3 Million in 2012 — MPAA CEO Chris Dodd's compensation package was just over $3.3 million in 2012, an increase from a year earlier according to disclosures in tax filings made public on Tuesday. — Dodd, in his second year leading …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, bizjournals, Los Angeles Times and Deadline.com

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Hyped service Potluck reborn as group-chat app to talk about the news — New York startup Branch has spent the last two years trying to figure out how to make commenting work on the internet. The company's first product, Branch, was a tastefully designed, yet insular website for talking …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and TechCrunch

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Launches Tools To Help Users Plan Trips — Posted 12 seconds ago by Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) — Meet Mobile Incubator Tandem's New Class Of Startups — Or Rather, Two Thirds Of It — Pinterest took its biggest step toward monetization yet tonight, as the company released …

Discussion: Oh, How Pinteresting!, Street Fight, AllThingsD, @jguynn, @rafat, @skift, SocialTimes, @johnnyjet, @jguynn, @pinterest, @hannahkuchler, @skift, The Next Web, WebProNews and CNET

Keach Hagey / Corporate Intelligence:

An Old Media Veteran Goes Digital at Glam Media … Glam Media, one of the largest digital media companies, has hired magazine publishing veteran Dan Lagani as its first president and chief revenue officer, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. — The move represents a jump …

Discussion: Adweek and MediaPost

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

ESPN Turns ScoreCenter App into SPortsCenter App — ESPN's ScoreCenter app isn't broken — it's one of the most successful mobile offerings from a media company that has done a very good job with mobile. But ESPN is trying to fix it, anyway. — Disney's sports powerhouse is revamping …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Gigaom, AdAge, @allthingsd, PandoDaily and Engadget

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

HBO Go Lands On Google Chromecast — Google has just announced that HBO Go is now available on Chromecast. — This means that Chromecast owners with an HBO Go subscription can now stream HBO's content from their Android or iOS device, as well as the HBO Go web app.

Discussion: Google Chrome Blog, Wired and Gigaom

Bill Mickey / Folio:

AAM President Mike Lavery Retiring in 2014 — Executive search firm will help Board of Directors secure replacement. — Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) President and Managing Director Mike Lavery will retire after nearly two decades on the job. — Lavery, who joined AAM in 1987 …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck.com and Talking New Media

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Why ‘Native Ads’ Muddy the Water for Web Surfers — As advertisers push for more “native ads,” the spread of the paid messages that cleverly blend in with online “content” will further muddy the Web's already murky distinctions between ads and non-ads.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

NAMG Confirms It Has Bought Scout From Fox Networks Group in Dude-Focused Content Roll-Up Bid — The North American Membership Group has confirmed a previous report by Business Insider that it had bought sports site Scout.com from the Fox Networks Group. — The price of the deal was not disclosed …

Discussion: GeekWire

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online targets £60m revenues in 2014 — Publisher aims to continue 2013's 50% growth to hit point at which website's income would exceed newspapers' decline — Mail Online has set a target of making more than £60m in revenues in 2014, with executives saying it is close …

Discussion: @felixsalmon, @jonathanhaynes and @mediaguardian

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Newspapers put together by one person ‘skimming online content’ - Montgomery outlines vision for Local World journalism — Chairman of the Local World group David Montgomery today sent staff a 2,000-plus word explanation of how he sees the future role of the journalist in his group.

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Sponsored-Content Spending Growing Faster Than Predicted — Ad spending on sponsored content is growing at a faster clip than originally thought, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. — In June, eMarketer said advertisers would spend $1.88 billion on sponsored content this year …