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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 …
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal, martinbelam.com, @macloo, @mrjohncrowley, @digiday, @richwater and @niemanlab
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 …
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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XBMC, XBMC, PC Magazine, Engadget, Android Police, Gigaom, Lifehacker, BetaNews and Softpedia News
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.
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