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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines — Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Lack of Big Hits on Networks Creates a Drought Downstream on Cable Channels — The TBS cable network agreed in 2010 to shell out top dollar for reruns of the CBS CBS -2.20% hit comedy “The Big Bang Theory.” The bet paid huge dividends, as the show made TBS one of the most-watched cable channels.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Journalist quits Australia's Mail Online in protest at ‘battery hen operation’ — Further news of the bitter dispute between News Corp's Australian division and Mail Online's Australian outfit, which led to a clash in Cannes, as reported yesterday. — Three days before that happened …
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
World Cup Setting Ratings Records for ESPN and Univision — Univision Tops ESPN for Four of the Five Biggest Matches … The World Cup in Brazil has been ratings gold for TV networks, setting new audience records for ESPN and Univision — and giving victories to Univision for many top matches.
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
One Week In, World Cup's Opening Game Dominates Global Tweets
One Week In, World Cup's Opening Game Dominates Global Tweets
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Christopher Zara / International Business Times:
How Much Does TMZ Pay For Videos? Scoops And Scandals Fetch Big Bucks, But Ethical Questions Loom — The trashy gossip site is known for breaking scandals, but part of its secret sauce is checkbook clickbait.
Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
The secretive business of fighting content piracy — Private automated systems are sweeping the internet for illegal content—but they sometimes catch legitimate media coverage, too — Nate Glass fell into the takedown business almost by accident. Back in 2008, as a sales and marketing guy in the …
Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage — By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products, Hachette has allowed Amazon to usurp its relationship with its customers — For some three weeks now, books from the Hachette publishing group - one of the “big five” publishers who dominate the globe …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
DRM is unfortunate, but it's not the problem in Hachette vs. Amazon
DRM is unfortunate, but it's not the problem in Hachette vs. Amazon
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Brian Latham / Bloomberg:
Zimbabwe Arrests State Editor After Mugabe Attacks Minister — Zimbabwean police arrested the editor of a government-controlled newspaper two weeks after President Robert Mugabe accused the country's information minister of using state media to sow division in the ruling party.
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Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:
Even if Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News became nonprofits, they still would need revenue — Should Philly's Newspapers Operate as Charity Cases? — Gerry Lenfest has spent much of the last decade giving his fortune away for worthy causes. So maybe it's no surprise that when he finally sealed …
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Reuters:
Deutsche Telekom in talks with Netflix over collaboration - report — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom is in talks with U.S. video streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. — German monthly Magazine Manager cited people familiar …
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Ed Christman / Billboard:
Inside YouTube's Controversial Contract with Indies — Billboard has obtained a typical contract being offered by YouTube to its indie label partners for its new subscription service. The devil is in the numbers, but also in the overall strategy. — Even though YouTube …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Story You've Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists... Yeah, That's Not Accurate
That Story You've Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists... Yeah, That's Not Accurate
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Decision Time for Aereo! Supreme Decision Will (Probably) Come Next Week. — Public service announcement for people who like to spend time thinking about The Future Of TV and also The Future Of The Cloud: The Supreme Court's Aereo decision will likely come next Monday. Or next Wednesday.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
16 media outlets ask court for access to Guantanamo force-feeding videos classified as secret — Media seeks Guantanamo force-feeding videos — A group of 16 news organizations is asking a federal judge to make public a batch of videos of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being forcibly removed from his cell and force fed.
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