Mediagazer: ScreenHits to Launch Free Internet Site to Let Consumers Watch ‘Broken’ TV Pilots (Exclusive) (Todd Spangler/Variety)

12:10 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: 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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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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Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage: Local World makes £18m half-yearly profit says DMGT

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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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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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.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BBC given approval to continue as YouView partner with technical change — BBC Trust said reliance on BT and TalkTalk to be reduced but that it still complied with terms agreed four years ago — The BBC has been given approval to remain a YouView partner - as long as a technical change …

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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.

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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.

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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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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, 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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