Mediagazer: Time Inc. Hires New Digital Head from the Atlantic (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

7:50 PM ET, February 27, 2014

Top News:

Todd Spangler / Variety:

ABC will live-stream Oscars on web and mobile only to pay-TV subscribers in select markets — ABC Will Live-Stream Oscars to Web, Mobile Apps for First Time — But There's a Catch — Alphabet net to offer kudocast through Watch ABC apps and website, accessible only through certain pay-TV partners

Discussion: Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, AppleInsider, MacRumors, @zseward, Mediaite, CNET, The Verge, Engadget and The Wrap

Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC Signs On to Twitter's Advertising Program, Starting With #Oscars

Discussion: The Next Web

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Google fights court-ordered takedown of anti-muslim video — ‘Innocence of Muslims’ actor succeeds in copyright claim in San Francisco ninth circuit court — Google is fighting a US court's demand that it take down a trailer for an Islamophobic movie called Innocence of Muslims due to a copyright claim.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Techdirt

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Secret ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Order Caused Google to Go Ballistic

Discussion: Plagiarism Today, Technology & …, Techdirt, New York Magazine, @grimmelm, @mrpolyatheist, @evacide, @blogdiva, @maira, @flohmann and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Beyond tweeting: Demystifying the social media editor — While the popular perception of the social media editor is a fresh-out-of-college intern sitting on Twitter all day, the now-ubiquitous role is more complicated than that — and more important — “Twitter and Facebook have become far …

Discussion: @antderosa, @hashtagchad, @joelcifer, @jaredbkeller, @ashleykmayo, @crackliffe, @bydanielvictor, @10000words, @raju and Talking Biz News

Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch told Rebekah Brooks to make Sun more ‘fun’, court hears — Former editor tells phone-hacking trial that News Corp chief believed paper had become too bogged down in ‘pure politics’ — Rupert Murdoch made Rebekah Brooks editor of the Sun because he wanted her to make it more …

Nick Davies / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks ‘decided not to help phone-hacking inquiry in 2006’

Discussion: New York Times

BBC:
Phone-hacking trial: Brooks ‘agreed payments to officials’

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, @patrickjbutler and @franceshinde

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Here's How The Comcast & Netflix Deal Is Structured, With Data & Numbers — There's been a lot of speculation involving the business and technical details surrounding the recent deal between Comcast and Netflix and plenty of wrong numbers and information being used.

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Jessica Davies / The Drum:

‘Mobile-first’ has become a meaningless term, says FT's CTO John O'Donovan while unveiling ‘universal publishing’ strategy — The term mobile-first has become “meaningless” in this multiplatform landscape where it has become crucial not to “obsess” over specific platforms but focus on the wider picture …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service — Amazon gives away movies and TV shows to people who join its Amazon Prime subscription service. When will it start giving away music, too? — Maybe this year. People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify …

Discussion: AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Pocket-lint, App Advice and The Next Web

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Food & Wine Launches New Brand for Millennials — It's debatable whether millennials are special, but one thing is certain: Their relationship with food is. They want it to be authentic, they want to know how it was produced, and they want it to be a shared experience, preferably involving small plates eaten at communal tables.

Discussion: @qualityrye

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

ProPublica opens Data Store with free and ‘premium’ data — ProPublica is looking to data as a possible revenue stream as it launches an online Data Store as ‘a bit of an experiment’ to test demand — Credit: By gruenenrw on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Discussion: ProPublica, Gigaom, 10,000 Words, @exaronews and @marceellison

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Inkshares wants to create a hybrid of traditional book publisher and crowdfunded digital platform — As with so many other media and publishing-related businesses, the book industry has been massively disrupted by the internet, to the point where an increasing number of authors have found success …

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify and Ministry of Sound settle music playlists copyright lawsuit — Playlists based on dance brand's compilations will be removed from streaming service's search engine — Dance brand Ministry of Sound and streaming service Spotify have reached an “amicable” out-of-court settlement in their legal battle over music playlists.

Discussion: Plagiarism Today, Music Week, hypebot and Digital Spy

Willard Foxton / Telegraph:

It's only the threat of piracy that keeps the online music and TV industries honest — Streaming is rapidly becoming the way most of us consume music, film and television. Much of the best stuff is only available there, as anyone emerging from a House of Cards binge will tell you.

Discussion: @willardfoxton

Fernando Alfonso III / Daily Dot:

Why Reddit mods are censoring Greenwald's latest bombshell — It's been called “Censorship Fiasco 2: Electric Boogaloo.” — News over the past 72 hours has been dominated by the implosion of Mt. Gox, once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, and a report from Glenn Greenwald …

Discussion: Gigaom, Mashable, @mathewi, @michaelroston, @antderosa, Washington's Blog, @mathewi, @mattzeitlin, @intercept_this, Techdirt and Zero Hedge

Agence France Presse:

Hong Kong journalists vow not to be intimidated by savage attack on Kevin Lau — Hong Kong journalists have vowed not to be intimidated by a savage attack on a veteran colleague that has stoked fresh concerns for media freedom. — Kevin Lau - former editor of the liberal newspaper Ming Pao …

Discussion: Poynter, Wall Street Journal, Committee to Protect … and The Global Muckraker

Doc Searls Weblog:

Sell the news, give away the olds — We decided this year to zero-base all our subscriptions to print publications. The reasoning: since most pubs give the best deals to new or slow-to-return readers, wait to see how far down they push the price, and in the meantime see if we actually miss them.

Discussion: @tcarmody, @kevinmarks, @jaykaydee, @leshinton, @dsearls, Medium, @ksablan and @jayrosen_nyu

Clay Shirky / Politico Magazine:

What the decline of television means for politics—and why the medium is the new message. — In the annals of political lore, the transformative effect of the 1960 debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy has a way of getting overstated. Nixon's sweaty upper lip. Kennedy's youthful vigor.

David Sirota / PandoDaily:

MPAA response to Pando investigation confirms strength of visual-effects workers case against Big Hollywood — Last night, the Hollywood Reporter published a rewrite of Pando's recent scoop about the Motion Picture Association of America. The piece reviews what we originally reported …

Discussion: Variety and Hollywood Reporter

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Tribune and Time Inc. spinoffs face uncertain future as parents strip digital assets, add debt — The newsonomics of the print orphanage — Tribune's and Time Inc.'s — Talk about spin. Two of America's once-iconic publishers are about to be spun. Spun off, that is …

Discussion: @jbenton, @saila, Mashable and Bloomberg

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Tumblr Courts Hollywood With First Director of Media (Exclusive) — The Yahoo-owned blogging platform follows Twitter and Facebook in its effort to forge deeper ties with the entertainment industry. — Tumblr is making a big push in Hollywood. — The Yahoo-owned blogging platform …

Discussion: The Wrap, SocialTimes, Tubefilter, Variety and MediaPost

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Cut loose by UC Berkeley, hyperlocal site Mission Local looks to spin off as a for-profit — Five years ago, in the worst days of the economic collapse, Len Downie and Michael Schudson wrote their benchmark report “The Reconstruction of American Journalism,” attempting to chart a course forward for a news business in trouble.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, UC Berkeley Graduate School …, @niemanlab and Mission Loc@l