Mediagazer: Winamp: The death of the iconic MP3 player says a lot about the tech world's vicious utilitarianism (Justin Peters/Slate)

3:09 AM ET, November 22, 2013

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

White House press corps spars with deputy press secretary over photo access — White House-media relations hit new low — White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest got aggressive with the White House press corps on Thursday as he defended the administration from allegations …

Discussion: @chucktodd, @dylanbyers and The Huffington Post

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Media protests White House photo ban

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Mediaite, Poynter, @petesouza, New York Magazine, @passantino, @steveholland1, @steveholland1, The Wire, TheBlaze.com and NPPA

Dylan Byers / Politico: Media urged to stop using WH photos

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

NBCU May Invest in AllThingsD Journalists — Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher Will Be Starting New Company Next Year … NBCUniversal is close to a deal to take a minority stake in a new company being started by technology journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, say people familiar with the situation.

Discussion: New York Times, @edmundlee and @felixsalmon

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Barton Gellman Hits Back At Bob Woodward For ‘Insult’ About Snowden Coverage — NEW YORK — Barton Gellman fired back Thursday at Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward over Woodward's remarks that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden should have come to him first with documents …

Discussion: @noahshachtman, Business Insider, @tonyromm, Mediaite, @trevortimm, Hit & Run and @timkarr

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Nate Silver on How to Build a Better News Site: Quality Over Clicks (Video) — ESPN President John Skipper says he hasn't given Nate Silver any traffic targets for his new blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. — In their first appearance together since Skipper hired Silver from the New York Times in July …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Dylan Byers / Politico: Leonhardt resists Nate Silver comparison

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News — From 1977 to 2012, she recorded 140,000 VHS tapes worth of history. Now the Internet Archive has a plan to make them public and searchable. — In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia …

Discussion: Poynter, @internetarchive, @roxanneshirazi, @heyfeifer, Online NewsHour, @greenharr and @stokesps

Hiawatha Bray / The Boston Globe:

TVs get smarter, but not smart enough — It makes sense on paper: Add a microprocessor to a television set, throw in high-speed Internet, and you've got a TV for surfing the Web, playing video games, and streaming favorite shows. That's the idea behind the “smart TV,” …

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Third time's the charm: Will the new Potluck app be the best commenting section in news? — To understand what Potluck's new iOS app will mean, you have to understand where Josh Miller thinks he went wrong with the first two tries. — Though the products have different names …

Discussion: @joshm

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Hyped service Potluck reborn as group-chat app to talk about the news

Discussion: TechCrunch, @fromedome and @zpower

Wall Street Journal:

Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion — Swedish music-streaming company Spotify AB has secured nearly $250 million in new financing led by Silicon Valley firm Technology Crossover Ventures, valuing the company somewhere “north” of $4 billion dollars, according to multiple people familiar with the deal.

Discussion: VatorNews, BGR, VentureBeat, Electronista, Business Insider, TechCrunch, @synopsi, Digital Music News, @geoffreyfowler, The Wrap, The Verge, Mashable, Gigaom and hypebot

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

With ‘newsletter for mobile,’ Dalton Caldwell wants to make your native app obsolete — “Imagine if you had to download a different email client for every email newsletter you subscribe to.” That's the analogy offered by Dalton Caldwell, CEO of app.net, for the state of push notifications on mobile devices today.

Discussion: 10,000 Words, TechCrunch, The Verge, App.net, Journalism.co.uk, hypebot, The Next Web and @poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Cincinnati TV station plans paywall on its website — WCPO will introduce a paywall for much of its website content early next year, NetNewsCheck reports. … Paywalls are increasingly common for newspaper sites — 41 percent of U.S. dailies will have them after Digital First Media puts …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck and Broadcasting & Cable

Justin Peters / Slate:

Winamp: The death of the iconic MP3 player says a lot about the tech world's vicious utilitarianism — I was distressed to read Wednesday afternoon that AOL plans to shut down its venerable music player Winamp come Dec. 20. (According to TechCrunch's Frederic Lardinois …

Discussion: Firstpost, TechCrunch, Corporate Intelligence, The Week, FishbowlNY, Us Vs Th3m, CNNMoney.com, Mashable and PC World

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Moby Not Just Giving Away His New Album For Free On BitTorrent, He's Okay With You Profiting From It — The musician Moby has long been an outspoken critic of the old recording industry. He's been a big fan of giving away works for free (and noting that he's made quite a bit of money …

Paul Sandle / Reuters:

Technicolor expects to out-run market growth for TV set-top boxes — (Reuters) - Technicolor is bullish about its TV set-top box business for next year, and expects to outstrip growth in the market in Europe, Asia and North America, its chief executive said on Thursday.

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Sony's Hirai Plans $250 Million in Entertainment Cuts — Sony Corp. (6758) will cut $250 million in costs at its entertainment units over two years, part of Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai's plan to boost profit and keep full ownership of the movie, TV and music businesses.

Discussion: Deadline.com and Variety

Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Sony Pictures outlines budget cuts, trims film slate

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Natasha Tynes / IJNet:

Interactive map uses crowdsourcing to record attacks on journalists in Iraq — With 151 killings of journalists since 1992, including 93 unresolved murders, Iraq remains one of the most dangerous places to work in news. — To track attacks on journalists in the country, Ibrahim Alsragey …

Evening Standard:

James Murdoch in Vice Media move — James Murdoch is being lined up as a director of Vice Media in what would be his second significant boardroom job since the phone-hacking scandal forced him to resign a string of roles. — He is believed to have been a driving force behind the decision …

Discussion: New York Times, @jackrivlin, Gawker, UK - The Huffington Post and The Independent

Dana Cimilluca / Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Cable's Suitors Lining Up Funds for Bid — Charter Communications Has Held Talks With Banks, Sovereign-Wealth Funds — Charter Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with banks to borrow money for a bid for Time Warner Cable Inc., according to people familiar with the situation …

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: Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia University …, Pressing Issues, FishbowlNY, @ryanchittum and @joepompeo

Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:

Livefyre Buys Social App Provider Realtidbits — Marking its second acquisition this fall, social media software provider Livefyre just scooped up Realtidbits — a provider of enterprise-grade social apps. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Realtidbits specializes in real …

Discussion: Adweek, Digital Media Wire and TechCrunch

Ken Bensinger / Los Angeles Times:

Sale of Riverside Press-Enterprise to Aaron Kushner closes, finally — Riverside Press-Enterprise publisher Ron Redfern, left, Freedom Communications Chief Executive Aaron Kushner and Robert Decherd, former chairman of A.H. Belo, speak to Press-Enterprise employees about the proposed purchase of the paper for $27.25 million.

Discussion: PE.com Blogs, LA Observed and PE.com Blogs

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: @kyleykim and Newsonomics

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.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Gay Alcorn / The Age:

Spies, journalists and inconvenient truths — As surveillance of almost everything we do electronically grows, phone-tapping has sparked a critical debate about what the media should and should not publish. — There are two big stories, intimately linked, that are being played …

Discussion: @kathviner and @rupertmurdochpr

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Can K Street Buy Mike Allen? — The populist critique of official Washington, which I more or less agree with, revolves around a somewhat fuzzy, impressionistic collection of archetypes. What the critics imagine is an insular subculture inside the Beltway in which a shared conventional wisdom …