Mediagazer: Everyone Fails at Local News Online. Former TechCrunch Boss Eric Eldon Thinks He'll Get It Right. (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

6:05 PM ET, November 14, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Onion CEO: Sure, We're for Sale. But Mostly We Just Want Money, So Make an Offer. (Memo) — Yes, The Onion is for sale. But also, it might just raise some money. — That's what the head of the satirical Web publisher is telling his staff, in a memo you can read below.

Discussion: @pkafka, @nwquah, @joshmedia, @kitson and @edmundlee

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Everyone Fails at Local News Online. Former TechCrunch Boss Eric Eldon Thinks He'll Get It Right. — There are lots of successful tech news sites. Eric Eldon used to run a really big one. — There are barely any successful local news sites. But that's what Eldon is trying do now.

Discussion: TechCrunch, @ashleymayer, @jacob, @eldon, @davewiner, @weberwest, @laurengoode, @rafat and @joshelman

Eric Eldon:

Eric Eldon joins Hoodline, a San Francisco neighborhood blog, as Editor-In-Chief — I'm now a local news editor! — Here's some personal post-tech media job news. I'm joining San Francisco neighborhood blog Hoodline as editor-in-chief. I'll be doing deeper reporting on neighborhood topics …

Discussion: @caseynewton and @jasonkincaid

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

The Poynter Institute lost $3.5 million in 2013, makes progress toward new revenue sources — The Poynter Institute filed its financial statement for 2013 with the Internal Revenue Service Friday. It shows a loss of about $3.5 million for that year. — Poynter has taken a number of steps …

Discussion: Poynter

Chris Morran / Consumerist:

CBS, Disney, others get court to temporarily block FCC disclosure of how much cable giants pay for programming in merger review — Broadcasters Get Court To Stop Consumers From Seeing How Much Cable Companies Pay For Content — The FCC is currently mulling over whether to give its stamp …

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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
CBS, Disney, Viacom, other media firms ask appeals court to keep contracts private in FCC merger reviews of Comcast-TWC and AT&T-DirecTV

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Trinity Mirror to close seven regional newspapers with loss of 50 jobs — Trinity Mirror has announced the closure of seven regional newspapers, with the loss of 50 jobs expected. — All three of the publisher's Berkshire titles - the Reading Post, GetReading and the Wokingham and Bracknell Times …

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Nina Mandell / USA Today:

A New York Times story about Florida State was marked as spam on Twitter — The New York Times released a story on Friday about two incidents where Florida State football players were given minor traffic citations instead of being charged with hit-and-runs after abandoning their cars following late-night crashes.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, SI.com, PandoDaily and SBNation.com

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

StoryTracker is a new tool to track how news homepages change — Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web's most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single day.

Discussion: @jbenton

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

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Pip Bulbeck / Hollywood Reporter:

Rupert Murdoch Confirms Foxtel Interest in Australia's Ten Network — The News Corp chair also described son and co-chair Lachlan as the man who will “lead us to a very prosperous and bright future” — News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed that the company is looking at buying a stake …

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Reuters:

John Malone's Liberty Global in talks to buy 50% of Germany's video-on-demand service Maxdome — Liberty Global eyes stake in ProSieben's streaming service -paper — Cable group Liberty Global is in talks to buy a 50 percent stake in broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1's streaming service Maxdome …

Discussion: Variety

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Disney Movies Anywhere is coming to Walmart's Vudu — Disney Movies Anywhere, the cloud locker service that recently expanded from iOS to Android, is coming to another major retailer: Disney CTO Jamie Voris announced at a company event in Los Angeles Friday that the service will launch …

Discussion: Variety and Reuters

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google says Play Music subscribers automatically get access to YouTube Music Key starting next week — When YouTube Music Key was announced earlier this week, we were left with many details about the service unexplained. Of these, was the question of whether or not current Google Play Music subscribers …

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