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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the Web — Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an unsuspecting world one of the most misguided and destructive technologies of the Internet age: the web banner ad.
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@fmanjoo, @jackmarshall, @aa and @mccollumashley
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Moonves: CBS has deal with Sony's broadband pay-TV service, and Showtime will go OTT in 2015 — Mooves Says CBS Has OTT Deal With Sony — Updated: New Showtime broadband service coming in 2015 — CBS has made a deal to have its programming be a part of Sony's upcoming broadband TV service, according to CBS CEO Les Moonves.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News To Launch Video-Streaming Service Thursday — After months of preparations, CBS News is widely expected to launch CBSN, a new always-on news service distributed via broadband video and other new-media technologies, part of an effort by CBS Corp. to burnish the work …
Reuters:
Axel Springer drops bid to block Google from running snippets of news, citing traffic decline — Germany's top publisher bows to Google in news licensing row — (Reuters) - Germany's biggest news publisher Axel Springer has scrapped a move to block Google from running snippets of articles …
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@ericgoldman, 9to5Google, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and Techdirt
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Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:
Axel Springer core profit growth slows as print declines
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Axel Springer SE, Reuters, rttnews.com and Reuters
Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Warner Q3: revenue up 3% to $6.24B; Turner Broadcasting up 5% to $2.4B; HBO up 10% to $1.3B — Time Warner Quarterly Earnings Beat Wall Street Projections — Time Warner third quarter earnings beat Wall Street's estimates. Revenues at the company increased 3% to $6.24 billion versus $6.04 billion …
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Time Warner executives on HBO streaming plans, Dish Network dispute
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The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter and AdAge
Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:
News Corp Q1 earnings: $.11 EPS, $2.15B revenue, helped by strong book publishing and online real estate services — News Corp revenue rises 4 percent — A sign is seen outside News Corporation building in New York, June 27, 2012. — (Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O) …
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Capital New York, Sydney Morning Herald, News Corp and Yahoo! News
Erin Polgreen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why in-house innovation is a great plan for legacy outlets — “Intrapreneurship” is the next newsroom buzzword — In the last few years, a growing number of media outlets have undergone a critical shift in organizational structure to build innovative products.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
4 publisher approaches to the daily newsletter — With email newsletters, what's old is new again. Alongside their tumultuous love affair with traffic from social networks, publishers are also reinvesting in using email to hold onto their more dedicated readers.
Esther Breger / The New Republic:
Fusion's Election Night Coverage Was Like ‘The Daily Show’ For People Who Think Politics Don't Matter — For most news networks, election night is a time to solidify one's image and unveil new technologies. CNN had its usual flashy stunts, and the flashiest was the Empire State Building …
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@cwarzel, @kathrynschulz, @tomgara, @mathewi, @mikeisaac, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
English PEN calls for review of ‘chilling’ press regulation legislation — English PEN, the free speech and literature charity, is calling for a review of legislation underpinning press regulation. — It has raised concerns, in a report issued today, about the creation of a new class of publisher …
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Joshua Rozenberg / Guardian:
Walter Merricks appointed chair of “Leveson-compliant” independent press regulator and Ipso rival Impress
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Guardian, @richardmoorhead and @joshuarozenberg
Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Why Twitter needs to court its Vine stars, or risk losing them to Hollywood (and Facebook) — The original teen Vine stars are growing up and moving on. Will they take Vine's user base with them? — On August 29th, throngs of excited preteen girls stretched in a line around The Regency in San Francisco.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The Verge's Casey Newton appointed senior editor for Silicon Valley to focus on culture and companies, not rote funding stories — The Verge appoints a Silicon Valley editor — Casey Newton is The Verge's new Silicon Valley editor, the technology publication announced Wednesday.
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@caseynewton, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @chillmage, @dcseifert, @poynter and Digiday
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Unable to find a local partner, the much praised Homicide Watch D.C. is shutting down — Philly's lauded GunCrisis.org is stopping daily gun-crime reporting — More sad news from the startups-covering-local-crime world. Yesterday, it was Philadelphia's GunCrisis.org …
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Homicide Watch DC, Poynter, @mathewi, @webbmedia, @niemanlab, @yurivictor and @dicktofel
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Music competition app Chosen, founded by ex-Beats Music CEO, raises $5M led by DCM, expected to launch Q1 2015 — Ex-Beats Music CEO's New App “Chosen” Is A Mobile-First American Idol — Sing, yodel, or shred guitar into your phone, and get famous. That's the idea behind performance …
Ryan Mac / Forbes:
GoPro Adds New Media Executive To Continue Content Push — GoPro is slowly solidifying its reputation as a media company. — The San Mateo, Calif. company announced that it had hired former Guggenheim Digital Media executive Zander Lurie to head its media division.
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Variety, ValueWalk, Bidness Etc and Re/code
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Times names a ‘print editor’ for metro — Dean Chang, who serves as city editor for The New York Times, has been appointed to the new position of “print editor” for the metro section. — In his new role, Chang “will be responsible for planning, coordinating and executing metro's daily print section …
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FishbowlNY, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab, @kleinmatic and @bgrueskin
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