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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 …
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MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Poynter, Talking New Media, @niemanlab, @colinmorrisonuk and @rogerblack
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 …
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FishbowlNY, Wall Street Journal, @realjohngreen, @publisherswkly, @peterlattman, The Wrap, Publishers Lunch 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
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TheMediaBriefing, Press Gazette, Guardian, RTTNews and The Drum
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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:
@jilliancyork, @jamesvasile and Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
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:
@eddiesayago and @asmaam
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 and Bloomberg
David M. Levitt / Bloomberg:
Time Inc. to Move to Lower Manhattan's Brookfield Place — Time Inc., the magazine unit to be spun off from Time Warner Inc. (TWX) next month, will move its headquarters to Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan next year. — The publisher of Time, Sports Illustrated, and Entertainment Weekly …
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Associated Press, MarketWatch and Business Wire
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
Todd Pittman / Associated Press:
In Thailand, press early casualty of Army takeover — BANGKOK (AP) — A former political science professor was discussing the Thai army's declaration of martial law on live TV when the talk show was suddenly interrupted to transmit order No. 9 from the Peace and Order Maintaining Command.
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:
The New York Observer, Forbes and @aubernalevy
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:
presstv.ir and Eurasia Review
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 and Digital TV Europe
Matt Haughey / Medium:
Google probably considers MetaFilter a comment spam haven, despite best-in-industry moderation — On the Future of MetaFilter — Peak ads, MetaFilter's Google Problems, and the need to scale back. — MetaFilter is the little weblog that could, established in 1999 as one of the first community blogs.
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Slate, @mulegirl, @myersnews, @fran_hauser, @jackerhack, @anildash, @jfruh, @jcstearns, Search Engine Roundtable and @dangillmor
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:
BBC, Daily Mail and UK - The Huffington Post
Steve Rubel / AdAge:
Social-Media Companies and Publishers Consciously Uncoupling Products in Quest for Mobile Users — Social-Media Companies and Publishers Consciously Uncoupling Products in Quest for Mobile Users — Behind all the headlines about native advertising, programmatic buying and every …
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Ron Charles / Washington Post:
Goodreads wants you to ‘Ask the Author’ — Curious about what inspired Margaret Atwood to write “The Handmaid's Tale”? — Wondering what Michael Pollan really eats for breakfast? — Goodreads, the social media site for booklovers, introduced a new feature Wednesday to connect readers with their favorite writers.
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Publishers Weekly, @michaelpollan, @roncharles, Digital Book World and Bookseller news
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
PBS shouldn't ‘get in the way of reporters or photographers covering news,’ ombudsman says — A PBS staffer was “clearly wrong” to try to stop a reporter from photographing hotel security detain a protester at PBS' annual meeting last week, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler writes.
Discussion:
PBS and The Newspaper Guild
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Vodafone's U.K. Customers to Get Netflix Access With 4G Plans — Vodafone Group Plc's U.K. customers who sign up for high-speed mobile service will get a six-month subscription to streaming movies and TV shows on Netflix as the carrier expands into content.
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Wired.co.uk, Windows Phone Central, CNET, Gigaom, The Next Web, Cable UK Blogs and Businessweek
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Pay freezes, redundancies and subbing hubs see Newsquest staff across England hold strike votes — Newsquest is facing coordinated strike ballots across the country in protest at redundancies, pay freezes and the removal of local journalism jobs to distant production centres.
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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
Worcester Telegram & Gazette sold to Halifax Media Partners — Halifax Media Group has agreed to buy the Worcester Telegram & Gazette from Boston Globe Media Partners, the companies said Wednesday. — Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Halifax, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., is relatively new to the newspaper business.
Discussion:
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, @bostonglobe, Media Nation, The Newspaper Guild, @pottsmark and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
For the Times' innovation report to stick, its journalists need to be on board — Doing journalism and keeping up with what is happening within journalism and the wider digital ecosystem at the same time is impossible — It is somewhat ironic that one of the authors of The New York Times' internal memo …
Discussion:
@smfrogers, @mathewi, rabble.ca, The Changing Newsroom, Forbes, @digiphile and Sparksheet
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
The Challenge of Measuring Multi-Platform Success for Print Magazines — It seems like a simple task: Keep track of new magazine launches, monitor the results, and see how much the industry grows and changes. — But when you start digging into that project in more detail, it gets complicated.
Discussion:
@pbsidealab and @pbsmediashift
Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How algorithms decide the news you see — Homepage traffic for news sites continues to decrease. This trend is the result of an “if the news is important, it will find me” mentality that developed with the rise of social media, when people began to read links that their friends and others in their networks recommended.
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