Mediagazer: WhoSay Boosts Distribution Through Huffington Post, Flipboard and Tango Partnerships (Bill Mickey/Folio)

8:40 PM ET, November 14, 2014

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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, @weberwest, @davewiner, @laurengoode, @eldon, @rafat, @jacob and @joshelman

Eric Eldon:
Eric Eldon joins Hoodline, a San Francisco neighborhood blog, as Editor-In-Chief

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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.

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Bloomberg:
Owner of the Onion, A.V. Club, and Clickhole sites hires GCA Savvian bankers to explore sale

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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 …

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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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Bill Mickey / Folio:

WhoSay Boosts Distribution Through Huffington Post, Flipboard and Tango Partnerships — Celebs can post content directly to media platforms. — Celebrity social posts, whether ill-advised or perfectly orchestrated, are engagement gold. And WhoSay, a distributor of celebrity-provided social content …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Layoffs hit CNBC.com, with about eight people losing jobs — Layoffs at CNBC.com — Layoffs have hit CNBC.com, TVNewser has learned. Around eight staffers have been cut. — At the same time, CNBC.com is adding to the roster. Eric Chemi is joining as senior editor-at-large of Data Journalism.

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Obama seems to oppose Risen jailing — YANGON, Myanmar—President Barack Obama Friday reinforced the perception that a New York Times journalist won't be thrown in jail for refusing to identify his confidential sources for a book that allegedly contained highly classified information provided by a Central Intelligence Agency officer.

Discussion: Associated Press and @hunt_collin

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.

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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 …

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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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