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3:00 PM ET, August 4, 2014

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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 and @antderosa
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
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
 
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