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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.
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
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Re/code, New York Post, @pmarca and Engadget
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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Nieman Lab, NetNewsCheck Latest, IT News Online and VatorNews
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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Wall Street Journal, @sonadelite, @juliaangwin, @mccollumashley, @rsingel, @aa, @fmanjoo and @jackmarshall
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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Associated Press
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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Variety, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Business Wire
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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@dansabbagh and @greenslader
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
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 …
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
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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@lpolgreen
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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@angelafritz, Radio and TV Talk, The Wrap, TVSpy, FishbowlNY and Lost Remote
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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Guardian, Capital New York, News Corp, Sydney Morning Herald and Yahoo! News
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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Stock Market Wire, City A.M., RTTNews, RTÉ, Variety, @spencetimes and @marksweney
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.
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
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