Mediagazer: DreamWorks submitted a bid to Vevo's owners this week to buy part of the company (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

10:35 AM ET, April 11, 2014

Top News:

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Inside The New Yorker's digital strategy — The New Yorker, ambling at its own pace, is busy upping its digital game. — Not only has NewYorker.com significantly increased its digital metabolism, but it has also boosted its monthly audience to an excess of 10 million …

Discussion: The Awl, @carr2n, @cotton, @ryanchittum, @penenberg, @raju and @digiday

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

Ezra Klein on Vox's Launch, Media Condescension, and Competing With Wikipedia … Travel Design Dates Weddings Real Estate Doctors NYC Tourist Guide Best Of New York Issue

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Mediashift, Democracy in America, @ejleven, @binarybits, @mattzeitlin, @huffpostmedia, @nymag, Digiday and @mzhemingway

Judy Cantor-Navas / Billboard:

84% of Content Consumed in Spain is Pirated — 84% of content consumed in Spain is illegal, according to new report that adds more fuel to fiery debate in piracy-plagued country. Eighty-four percent of all online content consumed in Spain is pirated, according to a study …

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

Michael Wolff's digital media bloopers — The Newser founder trolls (other) digital-news companies — Having accurately predicted that Lachlan Murdoch would return to his dad's company, Michael Wolff, in his exhilaration, made this crack recently: — Good one.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

DreamWorks submitted a bid to Vevo's owners this week to buy part of the company — DreamWorks Animation Wants a Piece of Vevo, the Music Video Giant — DreamWorks Animation, which has been looking to expand its business beyond animated movies, is looking at Vevo, the online music video service.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

BuzzFeed Inks TV Tune-In Pacts with Bravo, IFC — List-driven social news site BuzzFeed announced deals with NBCUniversal's Bravo and AMC Networks' IFC, under which the cablers are promoting BuzzFeed content on-air and online (and vice versa). — The networks are the first two partners …

Discussion: MediaPost and Wall Street Journal

Guardian:

Burma's newspapers run black front pages in protest at journalist arrests — One journalist was imprisoned for ‘disturbing a civil servant’ and trespassing after attempting to interview an education official — Burmese newspapers printed black front pages on Friday in protest …

Discussion: BBC

Ishbel Macleod / The Drum:

BBC celebrates 20 years online: take a look at the changes — Happy 20th online anniversary, BBC! — On 13 April, the BBC Networking Club launched, offering early social networking, bulletin board features and information about the BBC. — Ralph Rivera, director for BBC Future Media …

Discussion: ATV Today

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

CNN's Jeff Zucker: Larry King/Piers Morgan-Style Interview Shows ‘No Longer Viable’ — “There are just too many outlets with not enough big gets for a pure talk show to thrive any longer,” said the CNN Worldwide president in introducing a slate of original series and films for the 9 p.m. slot previously occupied by the two hosts.

Discussion: @richardgrenell, @huffpostmedia and Deadline.com

David Bauder / Associated Press:
CNN replacing Piers Morgan with a rotating schedule of documentary-style programs

Discussion: TVNewser, TVNewser, New York Times, Politico, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, NY Daily News, USA Today, CNN, Adweek, Variety and @ap

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

RIAA sues Megaupload over copyright infringement — Kim Dotcom's lawyer dubs allegations “meritless copyright claims.” — Just three days after the Motion Picture Association of America brought a civil lawsuit against Megaupload, the Recording Industry Association of America has jumped in with its own case.

Discussion: Billboard, Softpedia News, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Sky News, The Wire, CNET, Techworld, TorrentFreak, Reuters, Variety and Engadget

Springwise:

Peekster app lets you take photos of print headlines, returns digital versions to your phone — Scan a printed article's headline, instantly get the digital version — Peekster is an app that enables readers to scan the headline of a print article in order to quickly bring up the digital version …

Discussion: @missmaddie207 and @niemanlab

Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:

The IMPRESS Project's plans for press regulation — Crowdfunding is underway for a press regulation body aimed at supporting smaller publishers and hyperlocal sites as well as larger news outlets. A crowdfunding campaign is aiming to raise £25,000 for a press regulation authority …

Discussion: Guardian

Wall Street Journal:

A Middling Outlook for the TV ‘Upfronts’ — Shrinking Audiences, More Competition From Web Expected to Erode Ad-Sales Volume — The springtime TV ad-sales season is under way, when networks try to charm advertisers with star-studded program presentations.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube, Once TV's Enemy, Tries to Show How It Drives Viewers to TV Shows — In its early days, YouTube was met with hostility from TV networks. Viacom, for one, alleged in its $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit that the video-sharing site was making money by stealing their best content.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and MediaPost

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

CNNx lets you watch only the news you care about — Since you're here, we figure you're pretty comfortable in using the internet to get your news. CNN has noticed that trend as well, and is making the jump to the next generation with CNNx. Initially available as an update for CNN's iPad app …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, multichannel.com, CNN, Lost Remote, Adweek and FishbowlDC

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Colbert Doesn't Arrive at CBS With Huge Viral Video Prowess — Stephen Colbert will bring younger viewers to CBS, no doubt. But he doesn't arrive with quite the Web mastery of his late night rivals. … In fact, while NBC's Jimmy Fallon has nearly three million YouTube subscribers …

Discussion: Mediaite, Mediaite, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo and Los Angeles Times