Mediagazer: Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers, Breaking Industry Taboo (Michael Sebastian/AdAge)

2:35 PM ET, May 22, 2014

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers, Breaking Industry Taboo — First Up: Verizon on Time and Sports Illustrated — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy — Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, is running Verizon Wireless ads this week …

Discussion: magazine.org, The New York Observer, Mediaite, USA Today, MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Capital New York, Mashable, @niemanlab, @colinmorrisonuk, @rogerblack, Talking New Media and New York Magazine

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

A challenge for free speech: Twitter's “country-withheld content” tool spreads to Pakistan — Twitter's selective censorship of tweets may be the best option, but it's still censorship — Twitter's ability to block certain tweets or users from being seen in specific countries …

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts, @jilliancyork, @jamesvasile and Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Jon Boone / Guardian:

Pakistan's Geo News becomes latest target in blasphemy accusation trend — Widespread calls for popular TV channel to be shut down after using Sufi song on broadcast of mock celebrity wedding — Young children, religious minorities and people with mental health problems have all been accused of the crime of blasphemy in Pakistan.

Discussion: Khaleej Times, Economist, The News International, DW.DE, The News International, The News International, @rizmokal, @venkatananth, @ketan72, Eurasia Review and presstv.ir

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Atria and UTA team up to create Keywords Press, a new imprint for books by YouTube stars — Media Companies Join to Extend the Brands of YouTube Stars — LOS ANGELES — Simon & Schuster is making a big bet on YouTube stars, an undertaking that could either open up a blockbuster …

Discussion: GalleyCat, Tubefilter, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Publishers Lunch, @publisherswkly, @realjohngreen, FishbowlNY, @pkafka, @peterlattman and Mashable

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online's soaring revenues offset publisher's print ad decline — Website's revenues up 45% to £28m in six months to end of March, as DMGT highlights reshaping of its media business — Mail Online: revenues up 45% to £28m in six months to end of March

Discussion: TheMediaBriefing, Guardian, RTTNews, The Drum and Press Gazette

Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:
Local World makes £18m half-yearly profit says DMGT

Discussion: Life Style Extra and RTTNews

Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:

NPR Staffers Worry About Diversity With End Of “Tell Me More” — “They want people of color in a very small box. They don't want to challenge that idea.” — Flickr: bereninga — On Tuesday morning NPR employees gathered in a conference room in front of the company's top brass …

Discussion: @heavenrants, @eddiesayago and @asmaam

Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Australian journalist accuses Egyptian prosecutors of unbelievable inefficiency — Peter Geste's outburst follows airing of phone footage, including pop video, in trial of three al-Jazeera journalists — The Australian al-Jazeera journalist on trial in Egypt, Peter Greste …

Discussion: canada.com, Al Jazeera English and The Huffington Post

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Can the New Republic find its digital footing? — It's been two years since Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes acquired the New Republic, the Washington insider mag once described as “the in-flight magazine of Air Force One.” Since then, Hughes has helped march the 100-year-old publication further …

Discussion: @lmoses, @stkonrath, @jess_goode and @niemanlab

Angela Haggerty / The Drum:

Financial Times kicks off trials to sell advertisers ‘blocks of time’ to tackle industry's viewability issue — The Financial Times is set to begin a new method of digital trading, selling blocks of time to advertisers in a bid to tackle the industry's ad viewability problem.

Discussion: @jason_kint, @jburnmurdoch and @chartbeat

Todd Spangler / Variety:

ScreenHits to Launch Free Internet Site to Let Consumers Watch ‘Broken’ TV Pilots (Exclusive) — Startup's Pilot Showcase partners include Fox International Channels, Hasbro, Lionsgate, Relativity and Telemundo — ScreenHits, a startup that runs an online marketplace for global buyers …

Discussion: Forbes, TBI Vision and Digital TV Europe

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

HuffPost M.E. Jimmy Soni transfers to India, Kate Palmer to succeed — The Huffington Post has reshuffled its masthead, replacing managing editor Jimmy Soni with national editor Kate Palmer. — Soni will leave the No. 3 editorial position and head to India, where The Huffington Post plans to launch a new edition.

Discussion: Poynter and FishbowlNY

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

BBC editor taken off election coverage after branding Ukip racist and sexist — Jasmine Lawrence quits Twitter as BBC launches investigation into tweet posted the day before local and European elections — Jasmine Lawrence, a channel editor at BBC News, has been removed from playing …

Discussion: @leewatersukip, BBC, UK - The Huffington Post and Daily Mail

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

Lucky's Eva Chen: I've taken down the fourth wall of fashion — As social media becomes increasingly personal, readers have gained access to once impossibly inaccessible fashion industry personalities, Lucky magazine editor in chief Eva Chen said on stage at an Internet Week presentation at the Metropolitan Pavilion today.

Discussion: MediaWire Daily, Forbes, The New York Observer and @aubernalevy

Gavin J. Blair / Hollywood Reporter:

Sony CEO Targets $300 Million in Film Unit Cost Cuts — Kaz Hirai once again said entertainment is a core business and emphasized the company's increasing focus on the growing TV production business, but didn't mention movie production during a presentation.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Wired, New York Times, Bloomberg and Fox Business