Mediagazer: Time Inc. execs line up at spinoff trough (Keith J. Kelly/New York Post)

12:20 PM ET, May 14, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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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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Mark John / Reuters:

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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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Dan Appenfeller / American Journalism Review:

Copy Editors Carve Niche in Digital Media Landscape — Abraham Hyatt saw the writing on the wall. — More than a year into his three-year managing editor stint at ReadWrite, a popular technology news site, Hyatt watched traffic plummet from roughly 5 million pageviews a month to less than 3 million.

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Amy Schatz / Re/code:

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC Twitter chat on net neutrality proves useful; draft to ask whether fast lanes should be banned, public comment period extended to 60 days

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate

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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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Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

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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 …

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 …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

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Emma Hall / AdAge:

WPP leads acquisitions race with 6 tech firms and 10 marketing/communications companies bought in Q1 2014 — WPP Leads Acquisition Trail Again to Start the Year — Sorrell's Group Buys More Tech Companies — Festival — Internet Week New York — WPP, the largest agency holding company …

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Ben Fox Rubin / Wall Street Journal:

Gannett to buy six Texas TV stations for $215 million. — Gannett agreed to buy six TV stations in Texas from Dallas-based media firm London Broadcasting for $215 million, continuing Gannett's effort to push more into broadcast.

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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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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:

Mail Online soft launches Australian content as Nielsen rankings remain stable — The Mail Online has switched its website to largely Australian content, in what appears to be a full launch for one of the newest entrants in the Australian online news space.

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Reporters Without Borders:

Special court begins hearing contempt charges against two journalists — The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is based in The Hague, today began hearing “contempt of court” and “obstruction of justice” charges against two Lebanese journalists, Karma Khayat, the deputy news director of Al-Jadeed TV …

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Frances Robinson / Wall Street Journal:

Google Faces Challenges in Europe After Privacy Ruling — Surprise Decision Will Have Implications for Privacy Throughout Europe — BRUSSELS—Individuals can ask Google Inc. to remove links to news articles, court judgments and other documents in search results for their name, the European Union's highest court said Tuesday.