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Upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users — We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We've heard you, and today we're pleased to announce that we've increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.
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Sumner Redstone gal pal says she got nothing — THR EXCLUSIVE: Peters defends Viacom chief amid scandal — Sumner Redstone's news-making gifts to women are proving irksome to his longtime lady friend, Christine Peters. — Peters is well aware that her longtime production deal …
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Steve McPherson resigned amid alleged sexual harassment probe — Exclu: Steve McPherson resigned from ABC as the company conducted an internal sexual harassment investigation of the executive, according to a source. — ABC pointedly did not deny allegations of inappropriate conduct were involved.
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Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’ — Amazon Digs in Heels by Introducing New, Cheaper Version of E-Book Reader — Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a cheaper Kindle e-reader next month, said Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, laying out a strategy to go “mass market” with an inexpensive gadget designed …

Rupert Murdoch to White House: No free news — It looks like Rupert Murdoch has finally figured out a way to make the White House pay — literally. — The Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has jacked up the rate it charges the administration's news clipping service by a jaw-dropping $600,000 per year …
Dunstan Prial / FOXBusiness.com:
SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure — So much for transparency. — Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests …
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Zach Goldfarb / Market Cop:
Does new financial law block FOIA requests at SEC?
Elisabeth Malkin / New York Times:
Mexican Journalists' Captors Demand Broadcast of Videos — MEXICO CITY — Mexico's drug cartels hang banners, attach warning notes to bodies and post videos on the Internet to intimidate the police, the military, the news media, their rivals and anyone else who gets in their way.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Journalistic blogging is fair, balanced and ethical — I have been taken to task for a posting I put up here eight days ago on an article by Cardiff University's Andy Williams about the state of the newspapers run by Media Wales, a division of Trinity Mirror.

Jeff Sagansky stakes claim to new media future — After holding management posts at big studios and TV networks for two decades and co-founding a production finance company, Jeff Sagansky has seen the digital light. — For 22 years Jeff Sagansky worked in “old media,” …

The Inside Story: Flipboard's Crazy Launch And Its Plan To Save Media — Flipboard is a beautiful iPad app that looks at the content your friends are sharing on Twitter and Facebook and reformats it into a digital, interactive magazine. — The consumer reaction to the app since its launch …

Journolist veers out of bounds — This may be the most embarrassing thing I have ever written — and looking back on my writing, there is a lot of competition for that dubious distinction — but when I became a reporter, it was almost a holy calling. — We really believed we were doing good.
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HBO Sinks Its Teeth Into GetGlue To Reward Fans For Checking-In To Hit Shows — Forget about checking-in to venues. Apparently, the new thing to do is to check-in to whatever you're doing — like watching television shows, or reading a book. It's something that Hot Potato offers …

Is radical transparency compatible with total anonymity? … - Spitzer: The New Financial Reform Bill Is Nothing To Celebrate- If the Pope Prays for a Dead Person, Does It Help the Deceased Get Into Heaven? - The Dangers of Sharing a Netflix Queue With Your Spouse- Can You Expense a Prostitute, Like in Mad Men?

Brands on Sidelines as Disney, Google and MTV Charge Into Social Games — Sale of Virtual Goods More Powerful than Ad Dollars, for Now — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — There's a land grab in social gaming, but at this point, it doesn't look like there's much room for advertisers.

Interview: Virgin Media Plans TiVo Web Apps Beside Web, Mobile VOD — UK cable operator Virgin Media's new web and mobile VOD service will offer premium archive material, rather than the latest catch-up shows, because broadcasters already offer own-brand catch-up services …

Fox Uses Heavy Exposure for Previews of ‘Lone Star’ — BY the time Fox introduces the soapy new drama “Lone Star” on television this fall, some Vanity Fair readers, cruise line passengers, hotel guests and iPad owners will have had a chance to watch it. — The network says it wants the show …

BSkyB CEO: VOD Changes Nothing, Free Is Difficult — UK satcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Jeremy Darroch channeled much the same belief in paid content as its its largest shareholder News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). while discussing healthy growth from the last financial year with investment analysts Thursday morning...
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Samuel P. Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Julian Assange vs. The New York Times — Julian Assange is calling The New York Times, “pusillanimous” and “unprofessional.” In these parts, those are fighting words! — While Assange has often positioned himself against the press, accusing it of flinching in the face of power …
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Clint Hendler / CJR:
The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks's Afghanistan Logs
The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks's Afghanistan Logs
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Crain's New York Business:
Tax breaks for Thomson Reuters assailed — Daniel Massey - A contract dispute between Thomson Reuters and the Newspaper Guild of New York could threaten the media giant's attempt to shift $20.7 million in unused city and state sales tax subsidies from the construction of 3 Times Square to seven other Manhattan properties.

Netflix delights studios with big checks — LOS ANGELES—Netflix probably won't get a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame anytime soon, but the Web's top video-rental service has recently become a blockbuster hit with film-industry chieftains. — Just nine months ago, sources …
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The New York Post's Newsroom: On Edge and Under Hot Water After Correction Boils Over — We received a tip earlier this afternoon: “heads might roll” by the end of the day at the New York Post's Metro desk, as they're in crisis mode after a humiliating correction was published this morning in the paper.
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Secrets of the Boy Genius — The once-anonymous blogger is out now, with a logo, a PR agent and plans to build a brand — Jonathan Geller. Photo: PED — The shadowy figure who calls himself the Boy Genius racked up an impressive run of scoops — internal AT&T (T) documents …

As Mobile Advertising Heats Up, Millennial Media Prepares For An IPO In 2011 — Mobile advertising is currently a billion dollar market and we've witnessed tech giants like Google and Apple move into the space with the acquisitions of mobile ad networks AdMob and Quattro Wireless, respectively.
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Scott Brown on How Max Headroom Predicted the Demise of TV Journalism — Pity Max Headroom. We think of him today as an empty-headed relic of the 1980s—if we think of him at all. Well, allow me to refresh your Memorex: Max was a computer-enhanced “talking head” with a freakishly sculpted scalp …