Mediagazer: Longform publishing service Byliner acquired by Vook; existing authors' royalty pay increased to 85% (Laura Hazard Owen/Gigaom)

8:45 PM ET, September 11, 2014

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Dan Shanoff / Nieman Lab:

Wearables could make the “glance” a new subatomic unit of news — Next year will be my twentieth in digital news. From the start, I had an underlying disposition that digital news consumers — sports or otherwise — wanted their content easily digestible: brief, formatted, convenient.

Discussion: TinyLetter and ZDNet

Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:

News apps were absent from Apple's Watch presentation, but Yahoo and Circa are building them — The Future Of News On The Apple Watch Is In Yahoo's Hands For Now — Yahoo News Digest already works on the Apple Watch. — Stephen Lam / Reuters — During its two-hour keynote this week …

Discussion: Nieman Lab and VentureBeat

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Yahoo News Digest Lands on iPads With Katie Couric Videos — When Yahoo announced last year it would acquire Summly, a London-based startup specializing in summarization technology headed up by 17-year-old founder Nick D'Aloisio, in a deal reportedly value at $30 million, it left many scratching their heads.

Discussion: VentureBeat, @adamcahan, CNET, The Verge and MobileSyrup.com

Leo Kelion / BBC: Yahoo News Digest's Nick D'Aloisio describes its strategy and plans for Apple Watch and other wearables

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Spin Media lays off 19, kills Vibe print edition — Spin Media Group eliminated 19 positions on Tuesday, C.E.O. Stephen Blackwell told Capital in a phone interview. — Blackwell told Capital that Tuesday's “reduction in force” affected about 14 percent of the company's 127 staff members …

Discussion: New York Post, The Wrap, @jasonlipshutz, FishbowlNY, Hip-Hop Wired, @pm_jawn, @jawnita, Folio, MediaWire Daily, @en_cohen, @digiphile and FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

How Meridith Valiando Rojas Turns YouTube Celebrities into Concert Stars: The Full Code/Media Interview — You can have Beyonce and U2. Meridith Valiando Rojas has our2ndlife and lohanthony. — Who? Exactly, says Valiando Rojas, who doesn't want you to know who those people are …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Jill Abramson on What Happened at the New York Times, and What She's Doing Next: The Full Code/Media Interview — Jill Abramson says she can't explain, precisely, why she was fired from the New York Times' top editing job in May. But she's happy to talk about it.

David Yi / WWD:

Maxim Magazine Names Kate Lanphear Editor in Chief — MAXIM'S SURPRISE: After weeks of industry speculation about who would be named Maxim magazine's new editor in chief, WWD has learned the job will go to Kate Lanphear, who is jumping to the title from her current role as style director at T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Discussion: New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Racked National, theFashionSpot, MinOnline and MediaWire Daily

Ezequiel Minaya / Wall Street Journal:

Venezuela's Press Crackdown Stokes Growth of Online Media — Digital Alternatives Expand as Newspapers and Broadcasters Struggle — CARACAS, Venezuela—Angel Alayon's Prodavinci.com blog, with its serious political analysis, drew a few dozen readers when he started five years ago.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:

The BBC goes global, and local, with pop up U.S. bureaus — The business of journalism looks a lot like a game of Risk right now, as media companies are angling for position with new sites and bureaus around the globe. Quartz and The Huffington Post have both recently set up shop in India.

Discussion: 10,000 Words and Denver Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

News Corp. C.E.O. touts newspaper improvements, tighter focus — News Corp. C.E.O. Robert Thomson is optimistic about improvements at the company's newspapers despite ongoing declines in advertising revenues. — In particular, Thomson said Wednesday at the 23rd Annual Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference …

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Which millennial news sites are really attracting millennials? — There has been a rash of new startups based on the belief that millennials — that holy grail 18-34 demographic — are disaffected by the traditional news media. Surely, the logic goes, they'll embrace sites that are built with their tastes and sensibilities in mind.

David Lieberman / Deadline:

Verizon CEO Says Its Internet TV Service Will Be Up By Mid-2015 And Will Include “Custom Channels” — CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon's plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Gigaom and Electronista

RT:

Ukraine's security service raids independent Kiev newspaper after report on SBU chief's family — The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has raided the office of a Kiev-based online newspaper and seized its servers, downing its website. The tabloid's editor-in-chief says the raid was after a report on the SBU chief's family in the US.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Reuters:

Exclusive : Univision to provide content for DirecTV online service by year end — (Reuters) - Hispanic media giant Univision will be a major supplier of content when satellite operator DirecTV (DTV.O) launches an Internet-delivered service aimed at a Hispanic audience, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement.

Discussion: Gigaom

James Estrin / New York Times:

Photojournalists at the Visa Pour l'Image festival pay tribute to their fallen colleagues — Photographers Facing Danger and Death — Though the conversation at the Visa Pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, France, often turned to the lack of editorial assignments and support for news photographers …

Discussion: @fernandanyt and @julesmattsson

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Longform publishing service Byliner acquired by Vook; existing authors' royalty pay increased to 85% — Failed e-singles startup Byliner acquired by digital publisher Vook — Byliner, which aimed to find a new model for selling longform journalism online, crashed and burned this summer.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Digital Book World, Publishers Weekly, Vook, The Digital Reader, @samatlounge, @olympiapress, @vooktv and PandoDaily

Jessika Walsten / Broadcasting & Cable:

Monetization a Big Obstacle for TV Everywhere #NextTV — With more and more content and platforms, effective advertising is key — Santa Clara, Calif. — TV anywhere, anytime still faces many challenges. But panelists at Next TV Summit San Francisco Wednesday returned to over and over to monetization.

Mong Palatino / Global Voices:

East Timor's “Repressive” Media Law Declared Unconstitutional — East Timor journalists and human rights groups scored partial victory when the Court of Appeal ruled that the Press Law passed by parliament last May is unconstitutional. — Media and activist groups oppose the law …

Discussion: @phelimkine and Economist