Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:55 AM ET, June 11, 2014

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos  —  The Everything Store is shrinking again.  Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features, including “The Lego Movie,” “300: Rise of an Empire,” “Winter's Tale” and “Transcendence,” are finding it impossible to do so.
Ralph Cipriano / Big Trial:
Lenfest to buy out Drew Katz to take sole control of Philly Daily News, Inquirer, websites  —  The Partnership That Didn't Last Twenty Minutes  —  Auction winners Gerry Lenfest and Lewis Katz  —  for Bigtrial.net  —  In the moments after Lewis Katz and H.F. “Gerry” …
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Fortune magazine triples amount of online content even as Time Inc. cuts costs  —  As the newly standalone Time Inc. looks to cut costs by 25 percent and media writers [Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Nieman Lab] outline the magazine publisher's tenuous digital prospects, Fortune and Money …
Discussion: Digiday
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Music Groups Urge D.C. Lawmakers to Revamp Licensing Laws  —  Characterizing the current system as outdated as the heyday of vinyl records and 8-track tapes, representatives for musicians and music publishers called on Congress to overhaul laws governing how songwriters and others in the industry …
New York Times:
Hong Kong Media Worries Over China's Reach as Ads Disappear  —  HONG KONG — In what may be a major escalation of pressure by mainland China on Hong Kong's independent-minded news media, two major British banks have stopped advertising with one of the city's biggest newspapers, a top media executive said.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News pushes back on Gawker report  —  Fox News says it has not retracted its claim that former executive Brian Lewis submitted fraudulent expense reports, despite a Gawker report alleging otherwise.  —  On Tuesday, Gawker unearthed a document filed in court appearing to state that the network …
RELATED:
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Mirror group faces new phone-hacking claims  —  Cilla Black, Christopher Eccleston, Alan Yentob and Davina McCall among new claimants for compensation  —  The publisher of the Sunday Mirror is facing compensation claims over alleged phone hacking from at least a dozen new litigants including Cilla Black …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Revenue Drops to Record Low  —  The RIAA has submitted its latest tax filing to the IRS, covering the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, which provides some background on how the organization is faring.  —  Continuing the trend from recent years the total revenue of the anti-piracy group dropped once again, to $24.2 million.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Music Week
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Stars from YouTube and Vine capitalize on internet success with live festivals and concerts  —  Performing Without Net: Stars of YouTube Take to the Stage  —  A capacity 12,500 tickets have been sold.  More than 70 performers are appearing on three stages.
Maxim Eristavi / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter forced to leave Eastern Ukraine after Russian journo accuses him of “spreading lies”  —  In Eastern Ukraine, one journalist turns on another  —  A German reporter is forced to flee after a Russian counterpart denounces him on social media
Discussion: Poynter
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
The Vice-Time Warner deal, HLN, and CNN  —  With the news that Time Warner is seeking a major investment in Vice, the possibility of HLN's involvement raises a number of questions.  —  HLN has been teased as possibly going to Vice as part of the deal, though there was enough wiggle room …
Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
Oliver Stone Options Novel by Edward Snowden's Russian Lawyer  —  The filmmaker and his producing partner have acquired movie rights to “Time of The Octopus” by Anatoly Kucherena, set to be published later this year.  —  Oliver Stone and his producing partner, Moritz Borman …
Discussion: Variety and Media Law Prof Blog
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC journalists to ballot for strike action  —  Union members call for overhaul of pay gap with managers, rejecting ‘derisory’ offer of 1% pay rise  —  BBC journalists are to ballot for strike action after rejecting an offer of a “derisory” 1% pay rise.  —  Members of the National Union …
RELATED:
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 9:55 AM ET, June 11, 2014.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Boston Globe launches Capital, a new section for political junkies
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
How a credulous media repeated dubious claims of a Turing Test milestone
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Chatting with bots: How Slack is changing how newsrooms talk amongst themselves
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Industry body representing Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others opposes Comcast/TWC merger
Discussion: Variety, Techdirt and The Wrap
 Earlier Picks: 
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Ross Levinsohn Departs Guggenheim Digital Media
Discussion: VentureBeat and Deadline.com
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Time's International Editor Bobby Ghosh joins Quartz as Managing Editor
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Marc Lavallee is NYT's new head of interactive news technology
Discussion: @pmaiorana
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page