Mediagazer: The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:35 PM ET, July 10, 2014

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America's Shifting Statehouse Press — Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters? — Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform the public about the actions and issues of state government, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Digital Outlets Help Fill Statehouse Ranks As Newspapers Retrench

Discussion: @pewjournalism, @pewresearch and Capital New York

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy — The Dallas Morning News dismantles its paywall in favor of a bisected reader experience — In yesterday's paper, The Dallas Morning News announced it was ending its experiment with a “premium” site.

Discussion: Dallas Morning News, @jbenton and @vwpickard

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Chromecast and Roku sold an estimated 3.8M units each in 2013 in US, compared to 2M Apple TVs — Roku and Chromecast go head-to-head in streaming race, Apple TV falling behind — Roku and Chromecast were the two most successful streaming devices sold in the U.S. in 2013 …

Discussion: BGR, Electronista, MacRumors and 9to5Mac

Alan D. Mutter / Editor and Publisher:

Newsosaur: Newspapers Can't Merely Dabble at Digital — The New York Times wrote the story in 1853 about how Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery, but Gawker got most of the page views by publicizing the archived article when “12 Years a Slave” won the Oscar for best picture in 2014.

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Sultry Univision Ads Help Steer Women From Soaps to Soccer — In the months before the World Cup, Univision began to unveil its plan to reach female viewers, many of whom are devoted to its daytime talk shows and telenovelas. — The primary weapon for Univision, a Spanish-language media giant …

Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:

Jill Abramson Talks Obama Secrecy and Her New York Times Firing — Two months after her abrupt exit from the Gray Lady, the former executive editor delivered a speech about how different Obama is from Bush—and why she was dismissed from her post. — Aside from her unceremonious firing …

Discussion: Poynter, @davidalvarez, @edpilkington, @antderosa, @ashk4n, @dancow, Washington Post, The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Apple Unveils Enhanced iTunes ‘Extras’ for Apple TV, as Studios Push Digital Movie Sales — Bonus content is aimed at promoting digital ownership of titles — Apple launched a new version of the iTunes Extras feature that will let Apple TV users access bonus content for movies they buy through …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, @ryansilbert, Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch and The Verge

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

National Enquirer publisher gets $515M buyout offer — American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, is getting bailed out by its creditors in a deal that values the company at about $515 million. — The cash-strapped publisher, led by CEO David Pecker, announced the bailout …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

WAN-IFRA:

Jay Rosen to journalists and editors: ‘Facebook has all the power. You have almost none’ — Amid growing calls for US and UK regulators to launch formal investigations into Facebook's disturbing mood manipulation research, leading US media scholar Jay Rosen has a reminder for journalists …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, The Atlantic Online, @jayrosen_nyu, @tcarmody, @dangillmor, @sr_lazarus, @tcarmody and blogs.ft.com

Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote:

NBC becomes first broadcast network to offer exclusive content on SoundCloud with ‘Last Comic Standing’ — SoundCloud has changed the way we experience sounds and music on the web. The platform which stands out as one of the top audio streaming destinations is becoming increasingly important to TV …

Discussion: SocialTimes

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

FCC sets clock for Comcast's Time Warner Cable and Charter deals — The Federal Communications Commission has released its schedule for the public and the media industry to weigh in on Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable and its complex deal to trade some cable systems with Charter Communications.

Discussion: Multichannel News, Re/code, Variety and Deadline.com

Richard Russo / The Authors Guild:

Authors Guild to Amazon in Hachette standoff: “We're not interested in a short-term windfall” — Letter from Richard Russo on the Amazon-Hachette Dispute — We want to share with you an open letter on the Amazon-Hachette, written by Richard Russo, novelist and co-Vice President of the Authors Guild.

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, @authorplanet, @watershedchron, @alex_shephard, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

The premium Emmys: Pay-TV services dominate nominations — If you want to watch all of this year's primetime Emmy nominees, be prepared to pay up. — The list is a sign of the shifting times in the TV business. Many of the buzziest shows garnering nominations are not available to households that have a simple basic cable package.

Discussion: Variety, Variety, Culture, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, @joepompeo, ThinkProgress, AdAge, Media & Entertainment, Pocket-lint, Forbes, Softpedia News, The New York Observer and FishbowlDC

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

There's “no congestion,” Verizon says, despite continued Netflix problems — Unlike Comcast, Verizon is unable to quickly set up network connections to Netflix. — It's been 10 weeks since Verizon and Netflix struck a deal in which Netflix will pay the ISP for a direct connection to its network.

Discussion: Verizon Public Policy, Engadget, Businessweek, DSLreports, TIME and BGR

Liam Corcoran / The Whip:

The Biggest Facebook Publishers of June 2014 — We list the most successful sites on Facebook last month, with a detailed breakdown of the interactions that the top 25 publishers received in June. — First off, we've just published a blogpost outlining the methodology behind these rankings.

Discussion: @mikeisaac, @carolinesb, @antderosa, @neetzan, @ethanklapper and Mashable

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

BBC could start making shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals as part of Director-General's ‘competitive revolution’ — The BBC could start creating shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals in a radical and money-driven transformation that will be outlined today by its Director-General Tony Hall.