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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 …
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.
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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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.
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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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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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sky Media expected to pick up £330m-a-year deal, giving it more than 30% of the market
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Television Revenue Drives Viacom Profit
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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 …
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 …
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The Newspaper Guild
Capital New York:
ASME Chief Exec Sid Holt: Readers on the web want dancing cats and longform journalism — The 60-second interview: Sid Holt, American Society of Magazine Editors chief executive — CAPITAL: The National Magazine awards are tonight. Of all the acceptance speeches given at dinners in recent years …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS Says Network President Didn't Influence Coverage Of Brother's Benghazi Email — NEW YORK — CBS News President David Rhodes was not involved in editorial discussions on Wednesday about whether “CBS Evening News” should cover a newly released email written by his brother Ben Rhodes …
Gregory Ferenstein / VentureBeat:
Steve Jobs biographer: Why online media turned to ads — and why that failed — Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs's biography, is out with a new book on tech luminaries. In an excerpt provided to VentureBeat, Isaacson describes how the web's founders ultimately failed to build …
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.
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The New York Observer
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Hulu faces trial over sharing users' video history with Facebook — Streaming video service Hulu's decision to use Facebook's “Like” button on its webpages may have violated a federal law that forbids companies from sharing customers' video histories, according to a San Francisco court decision …
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Washington Post, Courthouse News Service and @htsuka
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Networks look to major events to boost TV Everywhere amid slow adoption — Cable Show: Poor Marketing, Low Awareness Hinder TVE — But Nets Say Marketing Service Around Events Can Boost Adoption — Los Angeles - While lackluster marketing efforts and poor consumer awareness have slowed …
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Home Media Magazine
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Vine improves desktop website, adds navigation and discovery features — Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube — When Vine first launched on the web, all you could do was view your stream and check out profiles for individual users. The desktop version came with TV Mode, too …
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Sandra Oshiro / Poynter:
Transparency advocates file FCC complaints about TV stations' nondisclosures — The Campaign Legal Center and the Sunlight Foundation filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, charging 11 television stations failed to disclose required information about political ads they ran this year.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT's big circulation gains include copies of international edition — Average Monday-Friday circulation at The New York Times was 15 percent higher for the six months ending March 2014 than it was in the same period the year before, new figures from the Alliance for Audited Media say.
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