Mediagazer: Sony Pictures buys film rights to Glenn Greenwald's book on Snowden and the NSA revelations (Michael Cieply/New York Times)

6:00 PM ET, May 14, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Jill Abramson unexpectedly leaving as executive editor at NYT, to be replaced by Dean Baquet — Jill Abramson Being Replaced as Top Editor at Times — Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times, is unexpectedly leaving the position and will be replaced by Dean Baquet …

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Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:

NYT Readers Spend Same Amount of Time on Paid Posts as News Stories — Readers of the New York Times are spending roughly the same amount of time on advertiser-sponsored posts as on news stories, according to Meredith Levien, the executive vice president of advertising for The Times.

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine — Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month? — Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Remains King of Bandwidth Usage, While YouTube Declines

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. execs line up at spinoff trough — As Time Inc. insiders brace for a new round of pre-spinoff layoffs that are expected to begin next week, recently unveiled numbers show the top brass at the publisher are not sharing in the pain. — Norman Pearlstine, the executive vice president …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Time Inc. Waves Goodbye to CNNMoney and Its Digital Profits

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Howard Finberg / Poynter:

Why newsrooms don't embrace digital tools — Many newsrooms in the U.S. are still not taking advantage of the low-cost digital tools for gathering and distributing journalism, even when journalists and producers know about the alternatives to traditional technologies.

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Michael Cieply / New York Times:

Sony Pictures buys film rights to Glenn Greenwald's book on Snowden and the NSA revelations — Sony Pictures Buys Film Rights to Book on Snowden — LOS ANGELES — After a long, slow haul, the film rights to Glenn Greenwald's book about Edward J. Snowden and his revelations …

Discussion: Politico, Variety, Deadline.com, VentureBeat, VatorNews, @nycjim and WebProNews

Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Greenwald to Colbert: Next NSA story will make ‘biggest impact’

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Washington Post cites resources and editorial judgment for not covering Amazon-Hachette fight — Pressure on Post to cover Amazon-Hachette — The Washington Post is drawing attention from media critics who question whether the paper's new owner Jeff Bezos is influencing coverage of his company Amazon.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, @sarahw, @byobrooks, @laurahazardowen, @dylanbyers, @juliebosman, Melville House Books and bookforum.com

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The New York Times has a (lovely) new cooking site … Spring is apparently new-product-launch season at the Times: Barely a month past the debut of NYT Now, along comes its new cooking site. (In various reports over the past year, it's been referred to as a food product, a dining product …

Discussion: @jbenton

Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:

From David Kelly to Jimmy Savile, how does the BBC deal with a crisis? — The Smith review into the handling of the Savile allegations, leading to the demise of its director general, is just the latest scandal to hit the corporation — On Thursday 29 January 1987, Alasdair Milne …

Discussion: @charliebeckett and @peterjukes

Reuters:

Le Monde editor quits after power struggle with top staff — Natalie Nougayrede says she is stepping down from role at French newspaper after ‘personal and direct attacks’ — Natalie Nougayrede, the first female editor-in-chief of the prestigious French daily Le Monde …

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Chartbeat launches paid-content tools to help publishers get better at native advertising — Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile built his analytical service — originally part of New York's Betaworks incubator, but later spun off as a separate entity — because he wanted to help publishers figure …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Media academic attacks press campaign against The Guardian over Snowden leaks — Media professor Julian Petley has written a lengthy assessment of the way in which The Guardian's revelations NSA and GCHQ surveillance were covered by the rest of the press. — “The State journalism is in …

Jessi Hempel / Fortune:

Amazon Studios director Roy Price talks about making good TV for the web — How to make good TV for the web, according to Amazon — Amazon Studios director Roy Price explains why certain shows succeed, whether to launch every episode of a show at the same time, how much a good show costs …

Sara Morrison / Columbia Journalism Review:

Promise, and potential pitfalls, as Alaska Dispatch and the Anchorage Daily News merge - See more at: http://www.cjr.org/united_states_ project/alaska_dispatch_anchorage_daily _ news_merger.php#sthash.RsRjGqZw.dpuf — Promise, and potential pitfalls, as Alaska Dispatch and the Anchorage Daily News merge

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Google Makes Chromecast Available In Korea, Its First Asian Market — Google's Chromecast has launched in Asia for the first time-but it's currently only available in Korea. In a post on its Asia Pacific blog, the company explained that Korea was chosen because of the country's high mobile penetration rate.

Discussion: Gigaom, Google Asia Pacific Blog, Electronista, Tech in Asia and The Next Web

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

London Live TV company ESTV lost more than £1m in 13 months — New figures reveal Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny invested £2m to help set up service — The company behind the London Live TV channel has reported a loss of more than £1m …

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Gavin J. Blair / Hollywood Reporter:

Sony Annual Film Profit Down 1.6 Percent, Movies Partially Offset by TV — “After Earth” was one of the underperforming titles that hit Sony Pictures' profitability for the year — After hits like “Skyfall” and “The Amazing Spider-Man” in the previous year, the film arm was hit by the flops of …

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Cole's Cosmopolitan — When Cosmopolitan took home a National Magazine Award for public service journalism—the first ASME recognition in the magazine's almost 50-year history—the news echoed through headlines as signal of the state of things …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

NowThis News, a leader in mobile/social/video, shifts its strategy and its personnel — So what's going on with NowThis News? — Less than two years old, NowThis News immediately grabbed attention for what seems like a bold new proposition for news: short digital video that was built for mobile devices and social media.

Discussion: CNN and Re/code

B&T:

Newspaper mastheads up even though print readership down — Many of Australia's major newspapers have upped their masthead audiences, even though fewer people are reading the print editions. — Seven out of the ten main capital city daily newspapers increased their masthead audiences …

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

Roku Adding 90+ Channels Every Month — Over-the-top online video and TV device maker Roku is adding more digital channels to its gadgets whilst building out an advertising business to augment its original paid video background. — “We're launching over 90 channels a month,” business development VP Scott Rosenberg tells Beet.TV.

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla reluctantly bows to industry pressure, adopts DRM tech required to watch Netflix video — Mozilla holds its nose and supports DRM video in Firefox — Rather than lose users, open-source browser gets proprietary Adobe software for watching video from sites like Netflix.

Discussion: @stshank and The Mozilla Blog