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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
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ABC, NEWS.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald, Mark Skulley, @tanyachilcott, @michaelsin_, @meadea, @larasinclair, @domsequitur, HeraldSun, @belindaseeney and @ivorytowerjourn
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 …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’ — MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers …
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Olga Razumovskaya / Wall Street Journal:
Putin Signs Law to Restrict ‘Foul Language’ in Books, on Stage and in Film — Putin Signs Law to Restrict ‘Foul Language’ in Books, on Stage and in Film — MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin signed a law that restricts the use of profanity in the arts, the latest move in a push to reinforce …
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 …
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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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Deadline.com, StreamDaily and Hollywood Reporter
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Maker Studios, Omnicom Sign Eight-Figure Upfront Deal for Web Video
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Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, The Wrap, Variety, @dslrvideostudio and @learmonth
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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Just 7 percent of journalists are Republicans. That's far fewer than even a decade ago. — A majority of American journalists identify themselves as political independents although among those who choose a side Democrats outnumber Republicans four to one, according to a new study …
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Politico, Washington Examiner, NY Daily News, The Wire, The Week and Mediaite
Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:
AOL first-quarter revenue rises 8 percent on higher ad sales — The AOL logo is seen at the company's office in New York November 5, 2013. — (Reuters) - Digital media and entertainment company AOL Inc reported an 8 percent rise in first-quarter revenue, helped by an increase in ad sales.
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Re/code
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Virgin Media returns to revenue growth with 15,000 new TV customers — Virgin also adds more than 40,000 broadband subscribers, marking return to form after acquisition by Liberty Global — Virgin Media has nudged back into revenue growth, adding 15,000 paying television customers and more than 40,000 broadband subscribers.
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uSwitch.com Broadband and thinkbroadband
Brian Lowry / Variety:
Sports Networks' Crazy Math: Even More Games You Don't Care About Watching — The Pac-12 Network recently announced plans to increase its annual package of live events to 750 this year and 850 next, which certainly sounds impressive. — At least, until you realize less than 25% …
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Los Angeles Times
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.
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Home Media Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Variety
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.
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Associated Press, Forbes, The Verge, @niemanlab and Motherboard
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Digital Publisher Inkling Lays Off Consumer Staff To Focus On Enterprise Business — Inkling is shutting down its consumer business and laid off part of its workforce yesterday. We first heard the news from a source who said the layoffs represented 25 percent of the company's workforce.
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PR Newswire
Elon Green / Salon:
Bloomberg News' hack nightmare: Why did it “double down” with Halperin & Heilemann? — It's good that Bloomberg wants to strengthen its political coverage — but this is like throwing out $2 million — The weekend brought some disappointing, unsurprising and vaguely peculiar media news …
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The Huffington Post and Politico
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Good Magazine plots an editorial comeback — In 2012, cause-driven magazine Good made a fateful decision, laying off six of its nine editorial staffers in favor of pushing a “community-based publishing system.” The platform, which was essentially reddit for social good …
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@kiragoldenberg
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.
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@alexlobov, @abhabhattarai, @pabloweather and The Huffington Post
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.
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Nielsen, Variety, @bergmayer, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, @bergmayer, Wall Street Journal and Lost Remote
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 …
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AdAge and NetNewsCheck Latest
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.
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@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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