Mediagazer: Is Medium a platform or a publisher? And is Matter a magazine or a collection? Yes (Mathew Ingram/Gigaom)

7:20 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 …

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

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

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

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

Discussion: Quartz, Ars Technica, Electronista and Consumerist

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, @pmarca, @pernillet, @alexremington, AdAge, @jbenton, @theatlantic, Mashable, Variety, Deadline.com and Capital New York

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: Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Here's Why The New York Times Thinks Readers Will Pay $6 Every Four Weeks for Opinions — Is The New York Times suffering from collective amnesia? That was the question bouncing around last week when the Times introduced its latest subscription product, NYT Opinion.

Discussion: @moorehn

Open Media Boston:

Exposefacts.org Launches New Whistleblower Website — Some of the best-known whistleblowers in the U.S. appeared at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on June 4 to announce the creation of a new organization, exposefacts.org, that offers a website …

Discussion: @digitalfolklore and uprisingradio.org

Isabelle Fraser / The Hairpin:

An Interview with Ann Wroe, Obituaries Writer for The Economist — I am not embarrassed to admit that the obituaries on the back page of The Economist make my week. They're thought-provoking and written with energy. Each column is a window onto another world, where genocidal SS captains escape …

Discussion: @robinsloan

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, @codell, @jeffkochisok, @jbenton, LA Observed, @ksablan, LA Observed and Navel Gazing

Connor Radnovich / Associated Press:

Journalists killed in 2013 remembered at Newseum … WASHINGTON (AP) — The Newseum on Monday honored the 77 journalists who were killed around the world in 2013 by adding 10 names to its towering memorial. — At a rededication ceremony for the memorial, Associated Press Executive Editor …

Discussion: Voice of America

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Netflix Is From Venus, Comcast Is From Mars: Full Code Conference Video of Reed Hastings — As promised, we're starting to post the full videos of interviews from the recent Code Conference. — A new video of one of the many stellar speakers for the event, which took place just over a week ago …