Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:55 PM ET, August 13, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
New episodes of Sesame Street to air on HBO, nine months before airing on PBS, starting this fall  —  HBO Strikes Deal for ‘Sesame Street’  —  Partnership means new episodes will air on HBO first, PBS nine months later; deal will double the number of episodes produced yearly  —  Big Bird is flying over to HBO.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media  —  The New York Times publishes more than 300 stories each day.  Which ones should editors feature on its many social media channels?  While the humans behind the Times' social media accounts have refined …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp in advanced talks to sell off its education division, Amplify, will cease production of tablet, continue to develop software during talks  —  News Corp Posts Loss on Education Write-Down  —  Media company in advanced talks to sell off Amplify digital-ed unit
Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Apple's live TV streaming service now slated for 2016 launch as licensing talks stall  —  Apple Said to Delay Live TV Service to 2016 as Negotiations Stall  —  Apple Inc. customers waiting for the company to revolutionize live television as it did for music and phone service …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Yahoo names former Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson as global editor-in-chief to oversee digital magazines, reporting to Kathy Savitt  —  Former Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson Joins Yahoo  —  She joins the tech giant as global editor-in-chief overseeing the company's suite of digital magazines.
Discussion: WWD, @mathewi and Yahoo
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Vertical video gains acceptance as viewers spend more time on phones and tablets  —  Vertical Video on the Small Screen?  Not a Crime  —  In 2012, Vincent Bova and Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi, two puppeteers who host a YouTube series called Glove and Boots, created a public service announcement …
Politico:
European Commission extends deadline for Google to respond to antitrust charges to Aug. 31  —  Google gets more time in EU antitrust case  —  Tech giant Google has until August 31 to respond to the Commission.  —  Google has got a second extension — until August 31 …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
With BI Films, Business Insider ventures into long-form video  —  Business Insider is going long on video, quite literally.  —  On July 28, the business news site launched “League of Millions,” a documentary series centering on e-sports gamers Team Liquid as it pursue the annual “League of Legends” world championship.
Discussion: The Hill
Nicole Spector / Adweek:
Advertisers increasingly investing in Facebook's autoplay video strategy, embedded instead of interstitial and sound muted as default  —  How Facebook's Autoplay Videos Are Ushering in a New Era of Silent Storytelling  —  Getting aurally blasted by a loud, autoplaying video ad …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
SNL Kagan report: pay-TV services record biggest-ever quarterly drop in Q2, losing 625K accounts  —  Cord-Cutting Accelerates as Pay TV Sees Record Subscriber Losses  —  Cord-cutting is gaining steam.  —  Pay-TV services recorded their biggest-ever quarterly drop in subscribers …
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
As reading of e-books on phones increases, publishers are rethinking content for small screens  —  The Rise of Phone Reading  —  It's not the e-reader that will be driving future books sales, it's the phone; How publishers are rethinking books for the small screen
Discussion: TeleRead and Fortune
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
GQ cut its webpage load time by 80% by reducing its server calls by 400%, using a single CMS, and decluttering articles  —  How GQ cut its webpage load time by 80 percent  —  It used to be that publishers measured their success in audience size.  Now, with the rise of reading on mobile devices …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:55 PM ET, August 13, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Jared M. Feldschreiber / UPI:
U.S. allocates $500,000 for Baltic journalism programs to combat Russian propaganda
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How CNN prepares push notifications for breaking news to promote its various platform
Discussion: @ylichterman and Talking Biz News
Alexander Spangher / New York Times:
Inside the New York Times effort to rethink its recommendation system for articles, using topics and collaborative modeling
Discussion: @margarita, Thanks:@steverubel
 Earlier Picks: 
Bloomberg Business:
Amid sinking stock price, analysts question Viacom's earlier stock buybacks and lack of digital and tech investment
Discussion: @brooksbarnesnyt
Jeff Jarvis / The New York Observer:
While newsrooms shrink, journalists continue to parrot each others' coverage when they should focus on unique value to communities
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Periscope says more than 10M accounts created since launch, users watch an average of 40 years of live streams daily on iOS and Android