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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
CBS News Introduces Digital Streaming Service — How to Make Credible Green Marketing Claims … CBS News is the latest TV programmer to join the over-the-top arena. — After months of discussion, the 27-hour, digital-only service, dubbed CBSN, goes live on Thursday, the company announced.
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The Australian Financial Review:
Discovery Communications and Foxtel weighing joint bid for Australia's Ten Network — Foxtel weighs up Ten Network investment — US cable television giant Discovery Communications is weighing up a joint bid for the struggling Ten Network Holdings with local pay TV monopoly Foxtel.
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Former Sunday Mirror investigations editor pleads guilty to phone hacking — Graham Johnson hacked a phone to investigate whether a soap star was having an affair with a gangster, court hears — Graham Johnson, former investigations editor of the Sunday Mirror, has pleaded guilty to phone-hacking charges …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Weather Channel Cuts 40 More Staffers — First on TVNewser: Pink slips are being handed out this morning at the Weather Channel. As many as 40 staffers are being cut from the ranks of senior producers, show producers, and weather producers, insiders tell TVNewser.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tribune Media Leads $2.75 Million Round in Digital-Video News Startup Watchup — Newspaper publisher McClatchy also invests in startup, whose service delivers personalized Internet newscasts — Watchup, a startup that delivers personalized newscasts to Internet-video devices, has raised $2.75 million in funding led by Tribune Media.
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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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Ryan Mac / Forbes:
Scribd Adds Audiobooks To All-You-Read Library, Piling Pressure On Amazon — Scribd doesn't take kindly to being cribbed. — In July, the San Francisco company woke up to find that Amazon.com had imitated one of its core services, introducing an all-you-can-read book subscription service that rivaled the …
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Gigaom, Fast Company, Publishers Weekly, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Businessweek, CNET and The Verge
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Icelandic journalists face jail for making a mistake — Lawyers acting for an Icelandic interior ministry official are asking for two journalists to be jailed because they mistakenly named her as a target in a police investigation. — In June, the journalists - Jón Bjarki Magnússon …
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The official IMMI web and Iceland Review
Press Gazette:
News Corp feared corporate charge over payments could ‘kill company’ and risk 46,000 jobs — A corporate charge against News International over making payments to public officials could have destroyed the company, a court heard yesterday. — The parent company of the Sun and the News of the World …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Upshot and the Midterms: Big Test, Good Grade and Lessons Learned — Two years ago - during the coverage of the 2012 presidential race - the relationship between Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight (then based at The Times) and the paper's political team seemed tense.
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The Week
Justin Bachman / Businessweek:
Before HBO Starts Streaming, Time Warner Wants to Make Big Cable Happy — From the moment Time Warner (TWX) executives announced that HBO will be available outside the traditional pay-TV ecosystem, the company has been emphasizing a story of huge, untapped potential.
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BusinessJournalism.org …, @drshanehunt, Wall Street Journal and Variety
Wall Street Journal:
Q3 results at big US media companies show decline in TV ad spending as marketers shift to digital — TV Ad Sales on Shaky Ground — Evidence Is Mounting of a Structural Slowdown as Spending Moves to Digital — Nik Wallenda's tightrope stunt Nov. 2 on the Discovery Channel …
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.
Discussion:
@lpolgreen
Abhirup Roy / Reuters:
DirecTV reports 6.3% rise in Q3 revenue to $8.37B on higher subscription fees — DirecTV revenue rises on higher U.S. subscription fees — The headquarters building of U.S. satellite TV operator DirecTV is seen in Los Angeles, California May 18, 2014. — (Reuters) - DirecTV …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB to Own 87 Percent of Sky Deutschland After Takeover — The U.K. pay TV giant expects to close the deal for the German firm and Sky Italia in mid-November — U.K. pay TV giant BSkyB said Thursday that it will own more than 87 percent of Germany's Sky Deutschland after it completes its takeover.
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RTÉ, Variety, Stock Market Wire, City A.M., @spencetimes, RTTNews and @marksweney
Karoun Demirijian / Washington Post:
Russian advertising ban on paid cable and satellite channels threatens independents — MOSCOW — An advertising ban on Russian cable and satellite television stations could decimate regional television broadcasting from the suburbs of the capital to the far reaches of Siberia …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Q3 Beats The Street On Sales Of $626.8M, Falls Short On Income Of $121.8M — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for Q3, a mixed result that saw it beating estimates on sales but only matching on earnings, and missing on operating income (OIBDA) …
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FishbowlNY, MediaPost, MediaPost, Variety, Reuters, Re/code, The Drum, Binary Tribune, ValueWalk, AdExchanger, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Associated Press:
Signs of torture on body of slain Myanmar reporter — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The body of a freelance journalist shot by Myanmar's army showed signs that he was tortured before he died, his wife said Thursday. — Ma Thandar said the body, which was exhumed Wednesday, had a broken skull …
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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