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John McDermott / Digiday:
Newspapers are lagging behind in the mobile traffic boom — The Internet is becoming an increasingly mobile medium, but it appears that newspaper publishers are not only struggling to make the transition, they're falling behind. — This year, for the first time ever …
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@elanazak and @pottsmark
Felix Salmon:
On the scoop culture, and why we should move away from journalism-for-journalists — Scoops: When journalists masturbate … This quote is beginning to get some press attention, so I ought to correct the record: I said “masturbatory”, not “masturbating”. Glad that's cleared up.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
CBS, BuzzFeed, Sky News Journalists Detained In Ukraine — A group of Western journalists from a number of news outlets was detained by pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine on Friday. — CBS reporter Clarissa Ward and her news crew, along with BuzzFeed's Mike Giglio and reporters from Sky News …
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Poynter, Associated Press, Gawker, TVNewser, CBS News, New York Magazine and NBC News
News Corp:
News Corp To Acquire Harlequin — Acquisition Will Extend HarperCollins' Global Platform — News Corp announced today that it has agreed to acquire Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar Corporation. Harlequin will become a division of HarperCollins Publishers, a News Corp subsidiary.
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Los Angeles Times:
Pay-TV field could shrink again with AT&T bid for DirecTV — A DirecTV employee installs a satellite on a home in Bixby, Okla. (Paul Taggart / Bloomberg / June 27, 2011) — A rush among the nation's largest pay-TV and Internet providers to get even bigger could have profound effects on consumers and competition.
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New York Times, USA Today and @joetrippi
IUB Newsroom:
IU survey: U.S. journalists say they are less satisfied and have less autonomy — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The reporters, editors and producers who put out the news every day are less satisfied with their work, say they have less autonomy in their work and tend …
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@barryhollander
Luke O'Brien / Politico:
How to Lose $100 Million - The undoing of Tina Brown — From the living room of Barry Diller's Manhattan apartment in the Carlyle Hotel, it is possible, on a clear day, to see the Midtown skyline, where the Condé Nast building rises like a ziggurat from the Gilded Age of magazine journalism.
Discussion:
The New York Observer
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Kaltura buys Tvinci to become the Swiss army knife of video platforms — Open-source video platform Kaltura has purchased pay TV service startup Tvinci, the companies announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Tvinci's white-label platform offers paid-TV providers …
Bethany Usher / Press Gazette:
Mail Online has grown ten-fold since its 2008 relaunch, but is it journalism? — Mail Online managed a 690 per cent increase in audience in the first five years since its relaunch - from 18.7m visitors a month in May 2008 to 128m in May 2013. — It makes it the industry's biggest current success story …
Discussion:
@abeaujon, @ryanchittum, @gordonmacmillan, @pressgazette and @niemanlab
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Tarantino is Back, Now Claiming Gawker is an Illegal Downloader — Earlier this month, news publication Gawker and Quentin Tarantino traded early blows in their dispute over the the leak of a screenplay to Tarantino's potential upcoming movie The Hateful Eight. — The background is relatively straightforward.
Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
As membership models spread across news outlets, lessons from the Voice of San Diego — Part of the club — Voice of San Diego's membership model has once again earned the organization a place in the national spotlight. If the model succeeds in San Diego, can it succeed elsewhere?
The Wrap:
CNN Cuts, Reassigns 50 Employees Across News, Digital Divisions — CNN cut or reduced 50 positions across multiple divisions on Thursday, changing roles and reducing positions and salaries across the board, a CNN executive told TheWrap. — “There is essentially no head count change,” a network executive wrote in an email.
Discussion:
TVNewser, Variety, Capital New York and FishbowlDC
John McDuling / Quartz:
The reinvention of MTV, chapter one million — “MTV, more than any network, has an imperative for reinvention. The network must anticipate changing tastes and trends among its young audience,” declared Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman on the media conglomerate's earnings call this morning.
Discussion:
@qz
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Sorry Wikipedia: YouTube Says It's the New Encyclopedia — Sorry, Wikipedia: YouTube says it is the world's new encyclopedia. — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki went before advertisers Wednesday to offer them the chance to buy ads during the site's most desirable videos. It's an initiative called Google Preferred.
Discussion:
@cschweitz
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tensions rising in newsrooms as execs get bonuses while journalists face cuts — Post-Dispatch disparities — While execs at parent company Lee Enterprises get bonuses, newsrooms in St. Louis and elsewhere are “simmering the furniture” — PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS — Scott Bujnak might …
Discussion:
The Newspaper Guild
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom's Big U.K. Bet: CEO Philippe Dauman Discusses Channel 5 Deal — He addresses content and growth plans and explains why the company is shelling out $760 million for its biggest deal since the CBS Corp. split. — LONDON - Viacom on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 …
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