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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Time Warner urges Hulu to remove current-season episodes from the service amid renewed talks, seeks 25% stake — Time Warner Talks With Hulu Zero In on Current Seasons — Media giant says the availability of these shows contributes to people ‘cutting the cord’
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Home Media Magazine, Business Insider, Consumerist and Fortune
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Condé Nast's focus on bottom line and relentless pursuit of web traffic is unsettling some employees — Condé Nast Adapts to New Forces, Unsettling Some Inside — A few years ago, Anna Wintour, David Remnick and Graydon Carter went to see S. I. Newhouse Jr. …
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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, @petersmeg, @mathewi, New York Magazine, @s_m_i, @katierosman, @espiers, @espiers, @pmarca and @joel__dc
Washington Post:
At Politico, Albritton wanted credit as financier and creative force, VandeHei wanted more control and a chance to profit from his own startup — Why the marriage at the top of Politico couldn't be saved — Jim VandeHei wanted more control. Robert Allbritton wanted more credit.
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The Wrap
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Guardian's transition into digital lost it $120M last year, and may exhaust its funds within five years — Guardian bet shows digital risks — As much as any newspaper in the world, Britain's Guardian has been single-minded and aggressive in its belief that conversion to digital distribution …
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@rafat, @mikejakeman, @neilthackray, @tomstandage and @jeremyzilar
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to unveil cost-cutting plan that includes up to 15% staff reduction, closure of some units — Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to Unveil Cost-Cutting Plan — Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is expected to unveil a plan on Tuesday aimed at slashing the Internet company's costs …
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USA Today, Ad Age, Variety and @binarybits
Facebook:
Facebook says it's now using feedback from user surveys in News Feed when selecting stories, warns some Pages will lose referral traffic — News Feed FYI: Using Qualitative Feedback to Show Relevant Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the stories that matter most to you.
Discussion:
Ad Age, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, @kevinroose and @mikeisaac
Dru Sefton / Current.org:
NewsHour archives of almost 10K episodes from 1975-2007 to be digitized and available online — ‘NewsHour’ archives to be digitized and available online — More on Quick Takes Subscribe to Quick Takes Follow this author — More than three decades of NewsHour are heading to an online home …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New nonprofit site Coda Story thoroughly covers a single issue at a time, starting with LGBTQ rights in Russia — A new storytelling platform hopes to move crisis reporting beyond isolated events in the news cycle — The Coda Story homepage is a busy place — filled to the corners …
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The Boston Globe is using Notes to publish directly to Facebook — It's no Instant Articles, but Facebook's Notes feature is giving the Boston Globe another way to post directly to the Facebook platform. — On Tuesday the newspaper started to use Notes with Ground Game …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Fandango Acquires M-GO Movie Service from Dreamworks Animation And Technicolor — NBCUniversal-owned online ticketing service Fandango has acquired the movie streaming service M-GO from its joint owners Dreamworks Animation and Technicolor. Financial terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ComScore Closes Rentrak Acquisition, Creating TV, Digital Measurement Giant — ComScore has closed the acquisition of Rentrak in a stock-for-stock deal. — The company said early Monday that it has completed the deal that creates a digital and TV audience measurement powerhouse looking to challenge Nielsen.
Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter:
Former Top Executive of Chinese Online Video Giant Youku Tudou Detained on Corruption Charges — Lu Fanxi served as president of peer-generated content at the online video giant until July, shortly before the company was bought by Alibaba Group for $4.8 billion.
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Financial Times, Deadline and Variety