Mediagazer: Corner Media Expands Its Network of Brooklyn Blogs (Vivian Yee/New York Times)

12:30 PM ET, July 16, 2014

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Time Warner rejected $80B takeover bid by Murdoch's 21st Century Fox last month, no longer in discussions — Rupert Murdoch Said to Have Made Offer for Time Warner — Twenty-First Century Fox, the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch, made an $80 billion takeover bid in recent weeks …

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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

The newspaper crisis, by the numbers — Roughly a decade after the commercial debut of the Internet, America's newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49.4 billion in 2005, leading many publishers to think their businesses would not be seriously affected by the digital revolution.

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Richard Smirke / Billboard:

Global Indie Sector Unites To Launch ‘Fair Digital Deals Declaration’ — Over 700 indie labels have given their backing to a major new initiative promoting fair and transparent accounting to artists and music companies in respect of digital revenues. Representatives of Domino, Cooking Vinyl …

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Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

Univision reports 73M World Cup livestreams, WatchESPN cites 43M hours of live viewing — Univision, ESPN Score Digital Victories During 2014 World Cup Both networks report record increases in traffic, livestreaming By Michelle Castillo — Germany may have won the World Cup …

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Chris Jasper / Bloomberg:
World Cup Final Watched Live by Record 40,000 Airline Passengers

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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month — Amazon is testing an ebook and audiobook subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited” that offers “unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month.”

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix already stopped mailing DVDs on Saturdays, but you probably didn't notice — The USPS may not have gone forward with its plans to kill Saturday mail delivery, but Netflix isn't waiting. A few customers have noticed it's no longer processing shipments on Saturdays, opting for a five day schedule instead.

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Vivian Yee / New York Times:

Corner Media Expands Its Network of Brooklyn Blogs — By now, the neighbors know exactly where an associate publisher of one of Brooklyn's biggest media conglomerates works (about three feet from his bed, most days) and what he looks like. That is the way he likes it.

Discussion: @juliemmoos, @raju, @tommy_robb, @grdodgemedia, @michaelroston and FishbowlNY

Cosmopolitan:

Jill Abramson: “I'm Not Ashamed of Getting Fired” — When Jill Abramson was appointed the first female executive editor of The New York Times, it was a big deal. When she was fired only two and a half years into the gig for her “brusque management style,” it was an even bigger deal, making headlines across the globe.

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress have larger audiences on mobile than desktop, only WordPress has seen overall traffic growth — Why Online Audiences' Mobile Migration Isn't All Bad News for Blogs — Mobile Hasn't Made Up for Desktop Declines, but It Is Growing — Online audiences are migrating to mobile.

Discussion: American Press Institute

Ian S. Port / SF Weekly:

Alt-Weekly Awards Snub Music Writing of the Nation's Largest Alt-Weeklies — This week, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the professional group representing papers like SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, LA Weekly, and Village Voice, announced the winners of its annual awards.

Andy / TorrentFreak:

RIAA Copyright Pressure Silences Historical Radio Archive — When sites like The Pirate Bay come under copyright holder pressure, there is often a big backlash from users who see such action as unfair. That being said, it's generally accepted by both sides that The Pirate Bay courts trouble by …

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Andrianes Pinantoan / Pocketbook:

27% of Australians using TV and movie subscription services use Netflix despite geo-blocking — How Netflix Is Doing In Australia: 2 Stats That Should Scare Foxtel and Quickflix … Andrianes Pinantoan — Andre is heads up marketing at Pocketbook. He's an accounting graduate …

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Dave Lee / Medium:

Technology journalists are facing extinction — Very soon I won't be needed. — One of the first ever online journalists for the BBC is a close colleague of mine. These days, you'd say he was the most experienced member of the team. — But back in the 90s, when the BBC …

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Study: Political journalists opt for stenography over fact checking during presidential debates — During the 2012 U.S. presidential debates, political journalists on Twitter primarily repeated candidate claims without providing fact checks or other contest, according to new research published …

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Angela Haggerty / The Drum:

Metro MD Steve Auckland quits to become CEO of Independent, Evening Standard and London Live brands — Metro managing director (MD) Steve Auckland is leaving the company to become chief executive of ESI Media companies ESL, IPL and ESTV. — Auckland will take up the role in October …

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Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

The return of the YouTube troll: Google ends its ‘real name’ commenter policy — The search company has apologised for complicating the commenting process, and reversed its ‘anti-troll’ real name policy on Google+ — Google has reversed a policy that forced users of Google+ to use their real names …

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Paul McCartney re-releases five of his classic albums as iPad apps — Band on the Run, McCartney, McCartney II, RAM and Wings over America get reworked for the modern-day App Store — Paul McCartney is the latest musician to experiment with the idea of albums as apps …

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Michael Holden / Reuters:

Six ex-Murdoch UK journalists will not face hacking charges — * Murdoch's News of the World hacked thousands of phones — * Ex-editor jailed for hacking earlier this month — Six former journalists on Rupert Murdoch's now defunct British tabloid, the News of the World …

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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:

Sony, Universal Said Facing Probe Over Songwriter Fees — The music-publishing arms of Sony Corp. (6758) and Universal Music Group are being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged price coordination, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Matei Rosca / PandoDaily:

Monetizing Murder: Dailymotion allows major brands to advertise on terror videos — Some of the West's most popular brands are advertising on, or next to, macabre extremist videos, some involving beheadings, executions, savage beatings and terrorist propaganda.

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Beamly OnDemand is a ‘Twitter DVR’ for BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD — Beamly, the social TV startup that recently rebranded from Zeebox, has an interesting new Chrome extension out today. Beamly OnDemand works with three UK catch-up TV services and displays tweets about the shows as you watch …

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