Mediagazer: VICE News: 'We don't treat the internet like a low-rent version of other media' (Henry Taylor/TheMediaBriefing)

12:10 PM ET, March 12, 2014

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

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Cadie Thompson / CNBC:

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John Reynolds / Guardian:

60% of UK's video, video games and music sales now come from the internet — Netflix and Spotify help drive UK home entertainment revenues to £5.3bn — New figures show that three-fifths of Britain's video, video games and music sales are now derived from the internet

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Time Inc. spinoff probably won't mean name change for Time Warner — Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes. — Although Time Inc. won't be part of Time Warner much longer, don't expect the media giant to change its name to better reflect its assets. — “We haven't decided to change the name …

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Bloomberg:

Berkshire to Buy Graham TV Station in $1.1 Billion Swap — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) agreed to buy WPLG, a Miami-based television station, from Graham Holdings Co., the former publisher of the Washington Post, paying with stock that Warren Buffett has held for more than four decades.

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Tina Daunt / Hollywood Reporter:

ObamaCare Website Traffic Spikes After President's ‘Funny or Die’ Interview — Obama's comic turn on Zach Galifianakis' “Between Two Ferns” becomes big driver to HealthCare.gov site, according to White House aides. — Within hours of President Barack Obama's appearance with comedian Zach Galifianakis …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Obama bypasses traditional media again in interview with Zach Galifianakis, showing how to take advantage of fractured landscape

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RT posts, mocks questions from BuzzFeed reporter — RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan posted a list of questions from BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray with...less than sincere answers. A sample:

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Appeal Court victory for Guardian in fight to see Prince Charles minister letters - Govt takes fight to Supreme Court — The Guardian today won a major legal victory for press freedom over Government secrecy as it won the right to see a number of letters to ministers written by Prince Charles.

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Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:

VICE News: 'We don't treat the internet like a low-rent version of other media' — “There's always been this view that this generation of young people aren't interested in the stories of the world,” says Al Brown, head of video for VICE UK, “Through our work you can see that young people …

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Amazon's TV streaming box to ship with Netflix and Hulu Plus apps — Amazon's Roku competitor, which could be unveiled any day now, won't just peddle the company's own video streaming service: The device will also have apps for direct competitors including Netflix and Hulu Plus on board, according to multiple sources.

Discussion: WebProNews, Engadget, Electronista, Pocket-lint and GeekWire

Arif Durrani / Media Week:

Financial Times opens global commercial academy for staff — The Financial Times has launched its FT Global Commercial Academy (GCA) today, a learning and development programme for staff ahead of its move into a single-edition, global print product in the second quarter of 2014.

Bloomberg:

Beats Music raises $60M-$100M to fund new music and features in challenge to Spotify — Jimmy Iovine's Beats Music Is Said to Raise Up to $100 Million — Beats Music LLC, the subscription streaming service from rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine, raised a second round …

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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

CNN ex-president Jon Klein talks about TAPP, the new online network he's starting with Jeff Gaspin — Jon Klein on His New Online Venture: 'We've Created the Company That I Feared Would Come Along' — Former CNN President Jon Klein and former NBC Universal Chairman Jeff Gaspin announced …

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
CNN, NBCU Alums Jon Klein, Jeff Gaspin Team Up for Online Video Venture

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Emma Graham-Harrison / Guardian:

Taliban splinter group says it killed British-Swedish reporter Nils Horner — Hardline group claims responsibility for death of radio journalist in Kabul and accuses him of spying for UK government — A Taliban splinter group linked to the kidnapping of a New York Times journalist six years ago …

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Jethro Nededog / The Wrap:

Anne Sweeney Exiting Disney-ABC to Become TV Director — Anne Sweeney, the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, is exiting the company in January 2015 to pursue a career in television directing. — Calling the past 18 years at Disney the highlight …

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