Mediagazer: Ex-stripper Sarah Tressler quits the San Antonio Express-News (Jim Romenesko)

4:40 AM ET, November 24, 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.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Couric Get Would Mean Yet Another Chase Of The Online Video Carrot For Yahoo — Yahoo is reportedly going to make its Katie Couric-hosted talk show announcement on Monday, according to a new report from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, supported by an earlier article from the NYT.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

One Way or Another, Big TV Is Getting Bigger. Will You Care? — Can Comcast, the country's biggest pay-TV provider, really get bigger? — That's the scenario that's floating out today, sparked by CNBC's report that Time Warner Cable, the country's second-biggest cable company, might be looking to Comcast as a white knight.

Discussion: CNBC, Forbes, Radio & Television … and Broadcasting & Cable

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, The Wrap, Consumerist and Electronista

The Wrap:
Washington Consumer Groups Question Comcast's Reported Bid for Time Warner Cable

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

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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.

Discussion: @latinoticias

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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Jim Romenesko:

Ex-stripper Sarah Tressler quits the San Antonio Express-News — Reporter Sarah Tressler was fired from Hearst's Houston Chronicle last year after it was discovered that she was moonlighting as a stripper. She filed an EEOC complaint and landed at the San Antonio Express-News — another Hearst paper — as part of her settlement.

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 …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

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 …

Discussion: The Verge, Reuters, NPPA and @wxbrad

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

Discussion: Gigaom, Editorial Photographers UK, @markjkings, @mjenkins, @ajsomerset, Techdirt, @mattwaite, Photoforward and @markjkings

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.