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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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@drshanehunt and Variety
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 …
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.
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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Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:
Axel Springer core profit growth slows as print declines
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Axel Springer SE, Reuters, Reuters, rttnews.com and Reuters
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.
Krati Garg / The Citizen:
Protecting the messengers: news groups rethink safety for correspondents on the frontline . . . and at home — Reporting from world trouble spots was never a bed of roses, but in 2014 the occupational hazard has been writ large by the emergence of a ruthless combatant and the beheading of correspondents, reports Krati Garg.
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
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 …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Google Play Music and Movies expands to more countries, including three where iTunes isn't offered — Image Credit: Play logo via Google, illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat — Google Play recently announced the expansion of its music and movie stores into several parts of Europe …
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Music Week, Romania-Insider.com, Android Community, Business Review and hngn.com
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