Mediagazer: Medium is both publisher and platform; Matter relaunches, aiming to “provoke and entertain” (Ev Williams/Medium)

12:30 AM ET, June 10, 2014

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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Time Warner said to be considering 50% stake in Vice Media, in a deal valuing the company at $2.2B — Time Warner In Talks About $2.2bn Vice Deal — Shane Smith, the company's co-founder and chief executive — Vice Media, the digital group which has mounted an aggressive assault …

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

Time Inc Has a Big Problem—So Does Digital Journalism — Time Inc, the mother of newsmagazines, was born in 1922. She survived wars and recessions, grew up to be fabulously rich by mid-century, married the media giant Warner Communications, entered the golden years as one of the largest media companies …

Discussion: Poynter, Gigaom, @editorialiste, @jbenton, @alexremington, @pmarca and Deadline.com

Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Stock Falls Following Spin-Off From Time Warner

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @theatlantic, RTTNews, Toronto Star, Irish Independent, The Boston Globe, TheStreet.com, Trust.org, WWD Media Headlines, The Huffington Post and cnbc.com

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix to suspend its controversial ISP error messages — Netflix will stop blaming your ISP when your Orange is the New Black stream starts to stutter, at least for now. The company announced Monday that it will suspend the display of messages that specifically blame individual internet providers …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Netflix US & Canada Blog, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Re/code, The Verge and AdAge

Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix to Verizon: Nope, Your Congested Pipes Are Still Your Fault

Discussion: Quartz, Ars Technica, BGR and Consumerist

Ev Williams / Medium:

Medium is both publisher and platform; Matter relaunches, aiming to “provoke and entertain” — What is now the Matter at Medium? — And Other Questions, Answered — About a year and half ago, Medium acquired Matter, a Kickstarter-funded publication focused on investigative journalism …

Discussion: @attackerman, VentureBeat, @mg, @rocza, @hamishmckenzie and @laurahazardowen

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Is Medium a platform or a publisher? And is Matter a magazine or a collection? Yes — Even in a digital-media landscape that is dotted with odd startups, Medium is a strange beast: founder and former Twitter CEO Evan Williams has said it uses the magazine as a guiding metaphor, and yet it is also a platform for anyone to publish.

Discussion: Medium and @rafat

Bloomberg:

AT&T Settles Suit Over Refusal to Carry Al Jazeera — AT&T Inc. (T) settled a lawsuit over its refusal to carry Al Jazeera Satellite Network's U.S. cable-news channel on its pay-television service. — The accord will allow Al Jazeera America onto AT&T's U-verse pay-TV service as part of the settlement …

Discussion: Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Gustavo Arellano / Navel Gazing:

OC Register Insiders on Expected Layoffs/Buyouts: “It's Going to be a F**king Bloodbath” — Today, at 4 p.m., the full staff of the Orange County Register will march into the R.C. Hoiles Auditorium located at the paper's for-sale Grand Street offices to hear Aaron Kushner explain …

Discussion: Orange County Register, @jbenton, @codell, @jeffkochisok, LA Observed, @ksablan and Navel Gazing

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Here's Why The New York Times Thinks Readers Will Pay $6 Every Four Weeks for Opinions — Q&A with Denise Warren, Exec VP of the Times' Digital Products Group — Going Native: Content Marketing Strategies … Is The New York Times suffering from collective amnesia?

Discussion: @moorehn

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Sky News boss wants to expand presence in US; already has 500K subs via Roku and Apple TV — The BBC was impervious to the launch of Sky News. Now they have to take notice — John Ryley treasures his framed memento of the launch of Sky News - a disparaging advert placed in the Financial Times …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Chase Carey Renews With 21st Century Fox — Chase Carey, the president and chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox Inc., agreed to a two-year employment contract extension, the entertainment company said in a securities filing late Monday. — Mr. Carey's previous contract was set to expire June 30 …

Discussion: Capital New York

David Holmes / PandoDaily:

No Spotify for Old Men: Classic musicians rail against the new economics of music — Send in the curmudgeons. — Last week, three rock and roll old timers, on three separate occasions, came out swinging against what they perceived as unfair practices in the new music economy.

Discussion: New York Times

Jim Romenesko:

Wire services abandon Treasury press room — Chris Wellisz: … Former Wall Street Journal reporter David Wessel, who spent time in the Treasury press room in the late 1980s, writes in an email: “I do remember the Fed faxing over press releases and Marty Crutsinger of the AP ringing a bell …

Discussion: Business Insider and Talking Biz News

Amanda Meade / Guardian:

News Corp accuses Daily Mail Australia of plagiarism — Australia's largest newspaper group labels rival journalists ‘copy snatchers and parasites’ amid accusations of stealing stories — News Corp Australia has taken aim at its new local online competitor Daily Mail Australia …

Discussion: TheAustralian, @ethicalmartini, Press Gazette, Plagiarism Today, Poynter and @moorehn