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11:50 AM ET, August 4, 2014

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
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.
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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
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
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.
Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
Four reasons why TV Everywhere isn't ready for prime time: A simple look at a complex problem  —  More than five years after its bold introduction, U.S. pay TV's highly complex multiscreen initiative, TV Everywhere, remains a work in progress.  —  There have been major breakthroughs recently …
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
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 …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Chase Carey Commits to Staying at Fox If Time Warner Deal Happens: Source  —  Rupert Murdoch has strengthened his hand in his quest to acquire Time Warner.  —  21st Century Fox president-chief operating officer Chase Carey is said to have pledged to make a long-term commitment to stay …
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
12 Years After Its Debut On Hacked Xboxes, XBMC Changes Its Name To Kodi  —  Back in 2002, a small group of developers whipped together an app that was meant to turn a hacked Xbox into a full-fledged media player, capable of playing all sorts of video and music content that the Xbox couldn't handle out of the box.
David Cohn / Medium:
There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist  —  There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist  —  Is anyone else tired of pointless journalist on journalist attacks?  They persist because of the labels/divisions we create amongst ourselves.
Discussion: @digidave
 
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