News Corp. and AllThingsD May Part Ways (Report)
February, 15, 2013 5:00 pm | Comments On #allthingsd, Media, News Corp.AllThingsD, the tech and media site run by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, may leave its owner, News Corporation, when the partnership contract expires at the end of 2013, Reuters reported.
Swisher and Mossberg are due to deliver a business plan next week to Robert Thomson, the former Wall Street Journal managing editor chosen as CEO of the News Corp.'s new publishing spin off. And as their site's contract expires at the end of the year, others suitors are circling it, Reuters said.
Condé Nast, which recently hired Swisher as a contributor to Vanity Fair, and Hearst were among those interested in the site. Other unnamed sources told Reuters that Guggenheim Digital Media, the parent company of Billboard, the Hollywood Reporter and...
Read MoreTabloids' Photos of Oscar Pistorious' Slain Girlfriend Outrage Readers
February, 15, 2013 9:40 am | Comments On #Media, news corp, oscar pistorious, oscar pistorious girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, rupert murdoch, The SunTabloids are notoriously irreverent, but readers Friday expressed shock at the front-page spreads of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorious's slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp modeling swimsuits.
Rupert Murdoch's the Sun and the New York Post's punchy headlines about the alleged murder, for which the Olympian nicknamed "Blade Runner" has been charged, paired with modeling shots from Steenkamp's various swimsuit photoshoots. The New York Daily News jumped on board, too.
Readers on Twitter were infuriated Friday morning, calling it "despicable," "disgusting" and an example of tabloid newspapers' chauvinism and disrespect...
Read MoreFraud Added to Huffington Post Theft-of-Idea Suit; Judge Denies Dismissal
February, 15, 2013 9:39 am | Comments On #Huffington Post, Huffpo, MediaA New York judge refused for a second time Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer's request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the media moguls stole the idea for the Huffington Post, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap.
The new ruling on Thursday also includes claims of fraud and unjust enrichment, new allegations in a case that has been ongoing since October 2011, when two Democratic political operatives, Peter Daou and James Boyce, sued Huffington and Lerer for allegedly stealing an idea they brought to the pair in 2004.
The news site, which started as a collective of liberal blogs, launched in 2005. Huffington is editor-in-chief of the site, as well as president of AOL's Huffington Post Media...
Read MoreL.A. Times Cutting TV Listings in Print (Updated)
February, 15, 2013 9:07 am | Comments On #LA Times, Media, newspapers, tv grid, tv listingsThe Los Angeles Times will cut the Calendar section's TV listings grid beginning Tuesday, Feb. 26.
In a note to readers that has appeared in the Calendar section this week, the Times said the grids would be available online and a TV highlights column would remain in the print edition.
"A searchable and printable TV listings grid, which is updated daily, may be accessed at latimes.com/tvtimes and provides readers with TV listings sorted by home ZIP code," the notice said. "TV highlights will continue to appear in Calendar's print editions. LATimes.com members may sign up for TV Weekly, which is delivered in the Sunday Times."
Nancy Sullivan, a Times spokeswoman, told TheWrap that a Sunday insert TV Weekly would be free for six months.
Gary Weitman, a spokesman for the Tribune...
Read MoreIs Microsoft Prepping a Surface Mini?
February, 14, 2013 12:47 pm | Comments On #ipad mini, Media, Microsoft, surface, tablet, techIs Microsoft preparing to release a mini version of its 10.6-inch Surface tablet?
Based on chief financial officer Peter Klein's appearance at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, it certainly sounds like it.
According to a report on AllThingsD, the tech giant is ready to roll out a smaller device, similar to the iPad mini.
“We’re set up for that,” Klein said of extending Windows to devices of varying size. “The notion of flexibility and scalability of the operating system is intrinsic to our strategy.”
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 share the same operating system, making it easy for applications to scale to the size of the display.
“We can have the same...
Read MoreJournalism Group Regrets Paying Jonah Lehrer $20,000
February, 14, 2013 9:51 am | Comments On #Jonah Lehrer, journalism, Knight foundation, Media, plagiarismThe Knight Foundation regrets paying disgraced journalist Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak about his plagiarism scandal, the organization said in a post on its website.
The foundation apologized on Wednesday night after journalists and media watchers complained that it paid the speaking fee to Lehrer, who was forced to resign from the New Yorker and Wired last year after admitting to plagiarism, quote fabrication and lying to a reporter who discovered his transgressions.
“In retrospect, as a foundation that has long stood for quality journalism, paying a speaker’s fee was inappropriate,” the foundation wrote in a post on its website. "Controversial speakers should have platforms, but Knight Foundation should not have...
Read MoreEx-New Republic Owner Says It 'Abandoned' Liberal Tradition, 'Embraced Leftist Outlook'
February, 14, 2013 9:23 am | Comments On #chris hughes, martin peretz, Media, the new republicMartin Peretz, who sold the New Republic to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, says he can't recognize the magazine anymore because it has "abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or the Nation."
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Peretz, the editor in chief from 1974 to 2011, criticized a provocative cover story about racism in the Republican Party that accompanied its recent redesign. He said the story contained "gross oversimplifications [that] hardly reflected the intellectual traditions of a journal of ideas."
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Read MoreTime Warner Magazine Sale to Meredith Could Be a $2.9B Deal
February, 14, 2013 8:52 am | Comments On #magazines, Media, Time Inc., Time WarnerTime Warner's possible deal to sell most of its magazines to Meredith Corporation could be worth up to $2.9 billion, according to an analyst's report.
The sale could enable Time Warner to hand off some of its struggling print brands to Meredith, which has a slate of female-focused glossies. It would keep Time, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, which first reported the possible deal.
UBS analyst John Janedis estimated in a Wednesday night research report that Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune account for less than 10 percent of Time Inc.'s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and...
Ken Tucker Leaving Entertainment Weekly
February, 13, 2013 11:59 am | Comments On #Entertainment Weekly, EW, ken tucker, Media, TV criticKen Tucker, the longtime television critic at Entertainment Weekly, is leaving the magazine after 24 years, editor Jess Cagle announced on Wednesday.
Tucker's departure comes a week after film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum, a 22-year-veteran, said she was leaving to pursue new writing opportunities.
In a memo sent to the staff, Cagle described Tucker as an "icon" whose coverage helped boost the profile of popular shows like "The X Files" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
"Ken never stopped fulfilling [EW's] mission, and even though he’s leaving EW, his voice, sensibility, humor, passion, incomparable wit and humane spirit will have a lasting and...
Read MoreKen Jeong, 'Halo,' Red Bull Take Early Streamy Awards (Exclusive)
February, 13, 2013 5:26 am | Comments On #epic rap battles of history, Halo, Ken Jeong, Media, Red BullRed Bull, “Epic Rap Battles of History” and a “Halo” web series have all won Streamy Awards, which recognize the year’s best in online video, Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter announced on Wednesday. The awards show takes place on Sunday, but the producers announced 19 winners in advance.
“Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,” a live-action web series set in the world of the popular video game, is the biggest winner so far with three awards. It won Best Editing (Michael Louis Hill), Best Production Design (Kasra Farahani) and Best Cinematography (Brett Pawlak). The show, which aired on the gamer-friendly Machinima Prime YouTube channel, debuted in October in advance of the release of the “Halo 4” video game.
Stewart Hendler directed the series, and though he was not nominated for his work on "Halo," he won the...
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