Mediagazer: Media analyst makes case for 21st Century Fox-Time Warner deal (Joe Flint/Los Angeles Times)

1:20 PM ET, June 6, 2014

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet (AP Photo/Bill Haber) — NPR's David Folkenflik has a revealing new look at what I have long believed is one of the most important journalistic stories of the last decade …

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Media analyst makes case for 21st Century Fox-Time Warner deal — Could archenemies Fox News and CNN one day be brothers? — Sounds crazy but a new report by media analyst Tony Wible of Janney Capital Markets suggests that a merger between media giants 21st Century Fox and Time Warner makes a lot of sense.

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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:

Mashable to launch Australian operation poaching Jenni Ryall from News.com.au — Technology and social media news website Mashable is to launch an Australian operation and has appointed News.com.au multimedia editor Jenni Ryall as its editor. — The move was announced overnight and also sees the website …

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Titillation or Illumination on The Times's New ‘Sin Beat’? — Mosi Secret's new beat — sin in New York City — has already resulted in a big spread in last Sunday's Metropolitan section, an article in The New York Observer and a lot of Twitter traffic. — It has also resulted in quite …

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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:

Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter — Mosi Secret. (Photo via Facebook) — The New York Times sexed up its local coverage this weekend with a long and in-depth story, featured on the front page of the Sunday metro section, on an underground strip club-cum-brothel in the city.

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Tom Meagher:

Cultural and technical lessons learned while leading the Thunderdome's data team that I never learned at newspapers — Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the internet — Over 21 months at Thunderdome, we created a lot of great projects, from interactive graphics …

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Declan Walsh / New York Times:

Pakistan Suspends License of Leading TV News Channel — LONDON — The Pakistani government on Friday suspended the broadcasting license of Geo News, a popular television news channel, in a major escalation of a bruising dispute with the country's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Lord Coe confirms he is considering applying to be chairman of BBC Trust — Tory peer and London 2012 Olympics boss was approached by government about role last month — Lord Coe has confirmed that he is seriously considering applying to be the next chairman of the BBC Trust.

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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:

Fairfax to move Pagemasters sub editing contract to New Zealand — Fairfax Media has announced it is ending the sub editing of its newspapers by Pagemasters, in a move that will see up to 40 journalist positions moved from Australian to its New Zealand. — The decision to move the subediting …

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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:

On the front lines of the battle over the press pass — On Wednesday, Amy had a post on a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit greater campaign finance regulation. We covered the hearing because the purpose of the amendment …

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Guardian:

Robert Peston: BBC follows the Daily Mails lead too much — Corporation's editors have a ‘safety-first’ attitude and are obsessed with newspapers' agendas, says economics editor — Robert Peston said a safety-first attitude at the BBC often meant it followed the lead set by newspapers.

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Christopher Zara / International Business Times:

Time Inc Goes Public, But Faces Industrywide Challenges — The U.S. magazine company Time Inc. goes public on Monday morning, but only time will tell what a print empire is worth in a pixelated world.

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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Netflix's Network Congestion Message Rolling Out On All ISPs, Not Just Verizon — As some Netflix customers using Verizon as their ISP have recently found out, Netflix has been working on a way to notify consumers when they feel that many clients are experiencing congestion on a certain segment of a certain ISP's network.

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Verizon Threatens Netflix With Legal Action Over Congestion Message

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Digital Growth to Prop Up Magazine Revenue Amid Print Losses, PwC Forecasts — Digital Ads and Subscriptions Growing Quickly — The halcyon days of print-based media are not returning in the near future, a new report said, as flat or declining revenues are expected at magazines and newspapers over the next five years.

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