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Bloomberg Business:
Vevo expected to name former Intel TV creator Erik Huggers as CEO — Vevo Said Set to Name Ex-Intel Executive Erik Huggers as CEO — Vevo LLC, the largest music-video site in the U.S., is set to name former Intel Corp. executive Erik Huggers as chief executive officer, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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Engadget, Re/code, @pkafka and @lucas_shaw
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Clifford Levy promoted to New York Times masthead — The New York Times has promoted Clifford Levy to a “masthead role” as assistant editor, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a Wednesday afternoon memo provided to Capital. — In this role, Levy, an associate masthead editor …
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@liamstack, The New York Times Company, @davidclinchnews, @dansaltzstein, @edmundlee and Talking Biz News
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television … Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times — In a single bound, David Letterman seemed to leap the full length of the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, racing from backstage as if he'd been thrust forward by the fanfare played …
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Rolling Stone, Variety, @lauriegoldberg, ABC News, Refinery29, UPROXX, The Wrap, Hollywood Life, Mashable, Splitsider, Mediaite, kottke.org, Pitchfork and The Week
Jenny Surane / Quartz:
I am editor-in-chief of my college newspaper and the job I trained for no longer exists — At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Discussion:
College Media Matters and @antderosa
Paul Schemm / Associated Press:
Iraqi official blames media for Islamic State war failures — BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's interior minister summoned dozens of journalists Wednesday to partially blame them for security force setbacks amid the war against the Islamic State group, laying bare the Baghdad's Shiite-led government sensitivity to criticism.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
HBO and Showtime sue two streaming sites for piracy in advance of Saturday boxing match, ask for injunction and for ISPs to block sites during match — Showtime and HBO Sue Over ‘Pre-Piracy’ — HBO and Showtime are no stranger to online piracy. Their TV-shows are pirated millions of times each month.
Discussion:
Deadline, Engadget and Bloomberg Business
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Al Jazeera America Management in Turmoil Amid Pressure From Parent Company — On the heels of an explosive wrongful termination lawsuit, sources report that a major shakeup of operations and programming has been in the works for months at the Al Jazeera America cable news channel.
Discussion:
TVNewser, International Business Times and TVNewser
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
More than 800K NPR clips now available for embedding on any website — NPR Clips Can Now Be Embedded on Other Websites — The network is making 800,000 clips available to post inside other websites. — Ever hear a memorable public-radio story segment that you've wanted to share …
Discussion:
NPR.org
Jon Erlichman / The Wrap:
Lionsgate Considered Starz Acquisition Before Stock Swap With John Malone — During a February earnings call and at a Deutsche Bank media conference in March, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht described the pay-TV service and Lionsgate Entertainment as “kissing cousins.”
Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
Q&A with New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet on publishing CIA intelligence, accountability, and more — Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets, and More — On April 25, two days after President Obama announced …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC offers largest telecom providers $1.7B in subsidies to expand rural broadband — FCC Makes $1.7B Available for Rural Broadband — Price cap carriers have 120 days to commit — The FCC is offering the largest telecom providers $1.7 billion in subsidies to expand broadband …
Discussion:
Business Wire and Radio & Television …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Top publisher for video on Facebook is UK's Lad Bible with 1.6B views/month, according to Tubular Labs ranking; BuzzFeed makes the top 10 with 320M views/month — Here Are the Top Publishers For Facebook Video — Over the past couple of years, the advertising world has awakened to the fact …
Discussion:
@digitalshields and @perlberg
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