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6:40 AM ET, May 7, 2014

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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax announces 70-80 redundancies across production, lifestyle and photographic  —  Fairfax Media has announced a proposal that could see more than 70 positions go from its newspaper arm Australian Publishing Media (APM) across its editorial production, lifestyle and photographic sections.
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Sharri Markson / The Australian:
Staff strike as Fairfax takes sword to snappers, subs  —  FAIRFAX staff have voted to go on strike in response to the news the company will sack 80 newsroom staff across production, layout and photographics and outsource the work.  —  Staff tweeted that a snap 24-hour strike …
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Jet Magazine to Shift to Digital Publishing Next Month  —  Jet, the pioneering African-American weekly magazine that rose to prominence covering the civil rights movement, is expected to announce Wednesday morning that it will no longer publish a regular print edition, the latest in a growing list …
Discussion: MediaWire Daily
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Maker Studios Launches Maker.tv, Tees Up Original Series from Morgan Spurlock and YouTube Stars  —  Maker Studios, the digital media company that Disney is buying for up to $950 million, unveiled a slate of original programming and took the wraps off Maker.tv — a consumer destination for monetizing video off YouTube.
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Howard Stringer and Marjorie Scardino in line to replace Lord Patten  —  Former Sony chief is an early favourite to become BBC Trust chairman, while ex-FT boss is the female frontrunner  —  Former Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer has emerged as an early favourite to succeed Lord Patten as chairman …
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Why Alibaba's IPO Matters to Hollywood  —  As China's e-commerce giant seeks a $150 billion flotation it is building an array of video and internet options and moving upstream into content.  —  Asia Bureau Chief  —  HONG KONG — The proposed share sale in the US of Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Ban on drone photos harms free speech, say media outlets in challenge to FAA  —  The New York Times and other major media outlets have accused the Federal Aviation Administration of “chilling” journalism and violating their First Amendment rights by banning the use of unmanned aircraft for news photography.
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
ITV, UK's biggest commercial broadcaster, acquires 80% of Leftfield Entertainment for $360M  —  ITV Agrees to Buy Leftfield Entertainment for $360 Million  —  ITV Plc (ITV), the U.K.'s biggest commercial broadcaster, agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Leftfield Entertainment Group …
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Suddenlink To Offer Netflix On TiVo Devices  —  MSO To Add Support For OTT Video Service This Summer  —  Suddenlink Communications has become the latest U.S. cable operator - and the largest domestic MSO, so far - to strike a deal to offer access to Netflix on leased TiVo-powered set-top boxes.
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
On average, Americans get 189 cable TV channels and only watch 17  —  A new Nielsen report raises questions about the channel-bundling system.  —  In a blog post on Tuesday, Nielsen reported that on average, US homes receive 189.1 TV channels, but viewers only watch 17.5 of those channels.
Jim Bach / American Journalism Review:
Reporter Pay Falls Below U.S. Average Wage  —  Sarah Rose, 27, works full time as a newspaper reporter in Kentucky, but is considering taking a part-time job to help cover living expenses.  —  Rose earns $24,000 a year at the Glasgow Daily Times, where mandatory furloughs this year are projected to reduce her modest salary by $2,000.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
Pandora Launches Beta of Brand-Curated Stations  —  Pandora has announced the beta launch of ‘Promoted Stations,’ a way for the service to better serve advertisers by providing users with a custom-curated stations from brands.  The beta, available to 10% of users initially, is the …
Discussion: AdAge and NetNewsCheck Latest
Caysey Welton / Folio:
NYLON Sold to Diversis Capital, Merges with FashionIndie.com  —  Brands will remain independent under new ownership.  —  NYLON, along with all of its branded assets, including NYLON Guys, NYLON TV, its international editions and Web and social assets have been sold to Marc Luzzato and his Diversis Capital team of investors.
Discussion: Adweek and New York Post
Joe Eskenazi / The Snitch:
Todd Vogt, San Francisco Print Media Company President, Likely to Sell SF Weekly, Bay Guardian, Examiner  —  If you ever hoped to keep something on the down low, it's best not to announce it in front of a command gathering of multiple newspaper staffs.  Newsrooms are not impregnable fortresses.
Discussion: @audreycoopersf and @judehere
Anna Prior / Wall Street Journal:
Disney Q2 earnings: $1.92B, or $1.08/share, up 27% on film studio strength  —  Disney Posts 27% Rise in Profit  —  Studio Division Continues to Benefit From the Animated Blockbuster ‘Frozen’  —  Walt Disney Co. said its fiscal second-quarter profit rose 27% as the company's studio division continued …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:   Disney Ad Revs Slide At ABC TV, ESPN
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What does a design director at ProPublica do?  David Sleight on what happens when you engage design with reporting  —  Last month, ProPublica, the investigative nonprofit news organization, published a nearly 9,000-word examination of the re-emergence of segregation in public schools.
Discussion: @clockwerks, @litherland and @ezraklein
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
Concha: When Gawker Goes the Dan Rather Route  —  Let's say you had a juicy story to tell...  A story that could be potentially damaging to a powerful entity you deem to be discriminatory to a particular group of people...  And in putting together your story, you build its entire foundation on a specific account...
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Inside The Financial Times' digital strategy  —  Publishers today are subject to that most timeworn of business imperatives: Grow as large an audience as possible, then sell that scaled audience to the advertisers who want to reach it.  It's a business model that has stubbornly persisted …
Discussion: @digiday
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Blurb acquires HP's MagCloud, aims to dominate long-tail publishing  —  The book-printing service has always been popular with photographers and designers.  Now it's going after writers.  —  FORTUNE — Blurb, a book-printing service, has started making noises again after a few quiet years.
 
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