Mediagazer: Ford and General Motors Sued Over ‘CD Ripping Cars’ (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

3:45 AM ET, July 30, 2014

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The NYT's new paywall products flounder — Early problems for the paper's new apps — The New York Times's expanded paywall offerings are off to a poor start, and its three-year run of higher circulation revenue may be at an end. — The Times's digital-subscription strategy …

Discussion: Poynter, @ryanchittum, @joepompeo, @dancow and @ryanchittum

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Despite Circulation Gains, Profit Falls 21% at New York Times Co.

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
New York Times adds 32,000 digital-only subscribers as profit falls

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

New York Times Reporter Lifted Text From Wikipedia, Too — Last week, BuzzFeed fired Viral Politics editor Benny Johnson for lifting phrases and sentences from other sources, chiefly Wikipedia—a phenomenon some attributed to Johnson's lack of training and the Internet's lack of rules.

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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Interview with anonymous tweeters who exposed BuzzFeed editor Benny Johnson's plagiarism

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
BuzzFeed, online curation, and plagiarism: juggling temptation and a maturing content model

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Amazon.com:

Amazon proposes 35/35/30 split, says cheaper e-book prices offer more profit to all — Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption — This discussion has reached the maximum length permitted, and cannot accept new replies. Start a new discussion — See latest post

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Business Insider and Mashable

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter soars 34% after hours as monthly active users grow 24% year-over-year to 271M — Twitter Picked Up 16M Active Users In Q2 — In its most recent quarter, Twitter didn't just report stronger-than-expected financials. It also showed continued user growth, which has been an ongoing concern for the company.

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Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:

Tribune Publishing CEO: We're buying newspapers — Tribune Publishing Co. CEO Jack Griffin isn't selling off newspapers. He wants to acquire more of them. — Despite all the speculation about a sale of Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and/or the other Tribune dailies …

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WikiLeaks:

Australia bans reporting of international bank corruption case on ‘national security’ grounds — Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam — WikiLeaks releases an unprecedented Australian censorship order concerning …

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

FCC Chairman Threatens to Intervene to Resolve Dodgers TV Dispute — FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, in a strongly worded letter to Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus, said that the agency “will intervene as appropriate” to resolve the dispute that has kept the Dodgers unavailable to some 70% of viewers in the Los Angeles region.

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

In rush to mobile first, some news sites could risk alienating readers using desktops at work — In the (appropriate!) shift to mobile, is desktop sometimes being abandoned too quickly? … If you're the kind of person who reads Nieman Lab, you're probably already sick of hearing terms like “mobile first” and “mobile majority.”

Brent Lang / Variety:

‘Snowpiercer’ Hits $3.8 Million on VOD as Weinstein Co. Shakes Up Distribution — The indie movie market needed a kick in the pants this summer. — Other than “Chef” and the still-expanding “Boyhood,” arthouse films have struggled in theaters. But amid the doldrums …

Discussion: Indiewire

Eliza Brooke / Fashionista:

Can Indie Magazines Launched on Kickstarter Not Only Survive, But Thrive? — Any guy with a hankering for potato salad can get funded on Kickstarter. For these independent magazines, it's the daily grind of keeping a print publication afloat after the campaign is over that's the real challenge.

Discussion: @fashionista_com, @lapresmidi and @knguyen

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Publishing industry reels after nine million fewer books are given as gifts in 2013 — The number of books being given as gifts has fallen by nine million in a year, delivering a new financial blow to the publishing industry as UK consumers turn away from hard copies in favour of digital reads.

Discussion: bookforum.com

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Ford and General Motors Sued Over ‘CD Ripping Cars’ — A quarter century ago the music industry was confronted with a new threat - cassette tape recorders. — These devices were able to make “near perfect” copies of any audio recording and the RIAA and others feared this would be the end of the recorded music industry.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, USA Today and Billboard

Andy Fixmer / Mashable:

Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering — This story has been updated to include a statement from AT&T confirming the peering deal. — Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, with the goal of reducing buffering …