Top News:
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.
Discussion:
CNNMoney.com, Multichannel News, Home Media Magazine, Radio & Television … and Deadline
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
@ericgoldman, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Gigaom and Techdirt
RELATED:
Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:
Axel Springer core profit growth slows as print declines
Discussion:
Axel Springer SE, Reuters, rttnews.com and Reuters
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Banner Ads: The Monsters 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.
Discussion:
@jackmarshall, @aa, @mccollumashley and @fmanjoo
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 …
RELATED:
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Time Warner executives on HBO streaming plans, Dish Network dispute
Discussion:
The Wrap, Bloomberg, AdAge and Hollywood Reporter
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 …
Discussion:
@mikeisaac, @kathrynschulz, @mathewi, @tomgara, @cwarzel, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
John McDermott / Digiday:
Snapchat in talks with CNN, Comedy Central, Vice, more about serving articles, audio, and video in new “Discover” area of app — Snapchat is in partnership talks with BuzzFeed, Time, others — Snapchat is in negotiations with Comedy Central, Spotify and Vice for the upcoming launch …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Mashable, SocialTimes, @masumaahuja, dotRising and Business Insider
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 …
Discussion:
Homicide Watch DC, Poynter, @niemanlab, @dicktofel and @mathewi
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 …
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, FishbowlNY, @niemanlab, @kleinmatic and @bgrueskin
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.
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.
Discussion:
@caseynewton, @poynter, @caseynewton and @caseynewton
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 …
RELATED:
Joshua Rozenberg / Guardian:
Walter Merricks appointed chair of “Leveson-compliant” independent press regulator and Ipso rival Impress
Discussion:
@richardmoorhead, Guardian and @joshuarozenberg
Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
Time Inc's latest results show a company racing its own falling print revenue — Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media — Time Inc, publisher of titles including Time magazine, the NME and Entertainment Weekly, has recorded expectation-beating Q3 revenues but has lowered …
Linda Nguyen / The Canadian Press:
Toronto Star to eliminate paywall, launch new tablet edition — Torstar CEO David Holland speaks to shareholders at their annual general meeting in Toronto on May 7. — TORONTO — Torstar Corp. plans to remove the paywall at the country's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star …
Discussion:
Toronto Star, Poynter and Globe and Mail
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 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Kobalt, which represents major artists, reports that royalties collected from Spotify in Europe in Q1 surpass those from iTunes by 13% — In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13% — Spotify may be smarting from the removal of Taylor Swift's music catalogue from its platform …
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
