Mediagazer: After years of cuts, big Canadian media companies start strategizing in more sustainable ways (Craig Silverman)

4:20 PM ET, August 4, 2014

Top News:

Tribune Co. Changes Name to Tribune Media — The company, led by CEO Peter Liguori, recently approved the spin-off of Tribune Publishing, which houses the Los Angeles Times and whose stock is set to start regular trading on Tuesday. — Tribune Co. said Monday it was changing its name to Tribune Media Co.

Discussion: niemanlab.org, New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable, Politico and Variety

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

Los Angeles Times CEO Eddy Hartenstein to resign Monday — Los Angeles Times publisher and CEO Eddy Hartenstein will step down this week in anticipation of a job on the board of the newly-formed Tribune Publishing, the paper reported Sunday afternoon. Hartenstein will accompany five others …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Mike Nizza named executive editor of Bloomberg's politics site — Bloomberg has hired Mike Nizza away from Esquire as part of the company's efforts to develop a new suite of media brands aimed at a consumer audience, Capital has learned. — Nizza, who currently serves as Esquire's digital editor …

Discussion: Politico, @mikenizza and @antderosa

Aki Tsuchiya / Guardian:

Television must mine bigger data or risk being Netflixed — Figures relating to consumer habit fuels decisions across a growing range of industries - and it's time for TV to catch up — In retail, Amazon and Tesco have blazed trails, mining insight from millions of consumers at scale …

Discussion: Capital New York

Chris Smith / Digiday:

Trinity Mirror sees digital experimentation pay off — Add Trinity Mirror Group to the list of newspapers showing an affinity for digital. — The change in direction for one of Britain's biggest newspaper publishers effectively began in May 2013, when it launched the first series …

Discussion: Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, @mrjohncrowley, @digiday, @richwater, @macloo, martinbelam.com and @niemanlab

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google News Gives Publishers More Control Over How It Indexes Their Sites — While European publishers have a rather contentious relationship with Google News, U.S. publishers have no such qualms and are more than happy to be indexed by the search giant's crawlers.

Discussion: Google Webmaster Central Blog, WebProNews and The Next Web

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

John Oliver uses slot on HBO to attack NYT, others for using native advertising — John Oliver goes off on native advertising — In June, The New York Times published what many considered the “Snow Fall” of native ads. The post, sponsored by Netflix to promote the second season of Orange …

Discussion: Mediaite, Adweek, Gawker, The Week, The Wrap, Business Insider, AdAge, @joepompeo and Re/code

Craig Silverman:

After years of cuts, big Canadian media companies start strategizing in more sustainable ways — No more waffling, big Canadian media — This has in many ways been a horrible summer for big Canadian media. — CBC announced massive cuts. TorStar killed The Grid.

Discussion: @craigsilverman, @digidave and @jayrosen_nyu

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Amazon Studios Head Roy Price on Competing With Netflix, Xbox Studios' Demise (Q&A) — Amazon doubles down on drama as its rivals fall. — A version of this story first appeared in the Aug. 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. — Roy Price comes from a long line of Hollywood executives.

Discussion: @laceyvrose

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Cablevision Hires Ex-Yahoo Tech Exec David Dibble as CTO — Cablevision Systems named David Dibble, who had until last year oversaw Yahoo's global infrastructure, as chief technology officer. — Dibble, 54, will start at the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable company in September 2014, reporting to Cablevision CEO James L. Dolan.

Discussion: Multichannel News

Emilie Friedlander / The FADER:

Social Anxiety: Should Artists Be Paying Journalists to Listen to Their Music? — In her bi-weekly column, Social Anxiety, Emilie Friedlander peeks underneath the artifacts of contemporary culture to question what it all really means. — A couple weeks ago, a music journalist friend …

Discussion: @jsdwrds, @daryl_byrslf, @missinfo and @sterlewine

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Foreign Policy:

Hackers overlay TV programming with anti-Communist Party messages in Wenzhou, China — Exclusive: Hackers Infiltrate Chinese TV Station — is story has been updated. Friday evening television viewers in Wenzhou, a city in eastern Zhejiang province, saw their normal programming interrupted by anti-Communist Party messages.

Discussion: Singapore and International …, China Digital Times, International Business Times, Telegraph, Slate and Bangkok Post