Mediagazer: iVillage to Be Shuttered as Standalone Site, Folded into Today.com (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

6:10 PM ET, November 23, 2013

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday — As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on its home page.

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

iVillage to Be Shuttered as Standalone Site, Folded into Today.com — iVillage, one of the earliest websites for women, will be folded into Today.com next spring, TVNewser has learned. The news of the dissolution of the standalone site is the second such move today.

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

NBC Shutting Down NBCLatino.com — NBC is shutting down NBCLatino.com with coverage moving to NBCNews.com when that site relaunches next year, TVNewser has learned. — A source tells us three positions will be eliminated, but those staffers may be offered positions in other parts of NBC.

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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Cable consolidation isn't about TV: It's about broadband — Given the rumors that Comcast is talking with regulators to see if it could find a way to buy Time Warner Cable and that Liberty Media's John Malone is eyeing some kind of Charter and Time Warner Cable tie up, this summer's hand-wringing …

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The Wrap:
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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Comcast, Charter Said to Weigh Joint Bid for Time Warner Cable

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Gautham Nagesh / Law Blog:
D.C. Ruling Could Make Comcast-Time Warner Deal Easier

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Nikki Schwab / US News:

White House Pic of the Day of Media Enrages Media — Friday's White House “Photo of the Day” seems fairly innocuous at first glance. President Obama, in the Oval Office, is surrounded by eight photojournalists as he signs a bill into law. — [REPORT: ‘Climate of Fear’ for Press Under Obama ]

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Jacob Hoffman-Andrews / Twitter Engineering Blog:

Twitter enables forward secrecy to avoid snooping, joining Google, Mozilla, and Facebook — Forward Secrecy at Twitter — As part of our continuing effort to keep our users' information as secure as possible, we're happy to announce that we recently enabled forward secrecy for traffic on twitter.com …

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Mark Ramsey / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Whatever Happened To Podcasting? — Once labeled the next big thing, podcasting has fallen off the media radar. While the category still has a number of sure “hits” — including public radio content and podcasts from established personalities — it has encountered a few obstacles blocking …

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Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:

Veteran Journalists Introduce New “Wine Pairing” With Digital Wine Magazine — The stereotypes about a reporter's love for all things caffeine, spirits and junk food are long-standing and often pretty accurate (if you don't believe me, check out this journalist food pyramid).

AFP:

Haiti photographer wins $1.22mn in AFP copyright case — A US jury on Friday awarded a Haitian photographer $1.22 million in damages after ruling that Agence France-Presse (AFP) and its US partner Getty Images wilfully infringed his copyright in 2010. — The seven-member jury took five hours …

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Lindsay Comstock / Photoforward:
Jury Awards Daniel Morel Full Extent of Law; Finds AFP, Getty Willful in Copyright Violation

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Reuters:

Freelance writers file proposed U.S. settlement with publishers — Freelance writers seeking compensation from publishers for the reprinting of their work in online databases without permission asked a court on Friday to approve a revised settlement that would remove a cap on the compensation they could receive.

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Adrian Chen to leave Gawker, pursue freelance — Gawker editor John Cook announced in a memo today that longtime staff writer Adrian Chen is leaving the site to pursue a freelance career. — “It is with a heavy heart and barely subdued rage that I must report that Gawker senior writer Adrian Chen …

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Turntable.fm Shutting Down So Company Can Focus On Turntable Live Events Platform — Today, Turntable.fm has announced that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there’ experience of live performances.

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Tim Peterson / AdAge:

AOL Pauses to Rethink Live Video Programming — HuffPost Live Soldiers On While AOL Live Is On Hold — AOL Live is still not live. — AOL has already made a substantial commitment to live programming on the web with HuffPost Live, but five months after AOL announced …

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