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2013 Inauguration Ratings Down Substantially from 2009(TVNewser)
New CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker saw his network win the day in ratings on day one, according to Fast Nationals data from Nielsen. Of course, it wasn’t exactly a typical day. On Inauguration Day Monday, CNN led the way on cable news in both total and demo viewers, in primetime, total day and during the part people really tune in to see: the president’s speech. That said, the “big three” cable news channels were down substantially in the ratings from the 2009 inauguration. NYT / Media Decoder In terms of the cable news networks, CNN was ahead during the time when the oath of office was administered and President Obama delivered his speech, and the usual cable leader, Fox News, was well behind. That was widely expected, given the conservative political preferences of much of the Fox News audience. HuffPost The network came in first place during the oath and inaugural address (11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.) among total viewers, drawing 3.136 million viewers in all. MSNBC came in second with 2.273 million total viewers, while Fox News had 1.316 million total viewers. LA Times / Show Tracker But reelected presidents — much like Dancing With the Stars winners — always get fewer people to come out for their second go-round. When George W. Bush was sworn in again in 2005, his TV ratings fell 46 percent compared with his first inauguration. THR / The Live Feed Obama’s 2009 inauguration ceremony, held the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, averaged nearly 38 million viewers with cable and broadcast networks combined. PRNewserDespite being smaller than Obama’s first inauguration in every way, this year’s event predictably prompted a “social media explosion” that managed to knock the mighty Twitter out of service for a moment or two. The fact that so many more people got “social” this year than in 2009 despite the lower turnout confirms something we already knew — that social media has become an ever more integral part of public and private life over the past four years.

Zucker to CNNers: ‘Think More Broadly…’ Don’t ‘Be Bound by What Has Come Before Us’ (TVNewser)
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is now officially on the job. As we reported last week, he spent his first day in Washington Monday as the bureau produced the network’s inauguration coverage. In a memo to staff Tuesday obtained by FishbowlDC, Zucker writes, “as we embark on the next chapter together, we must think even more broadly, and not always be bound by what has come before us.”Mediaite Zucker says he was impressed with his new staff on his first official day, President Obama’s inauguration: “I spent Monday, my first official day with CNN, at our bureau in Washington, during our coverage of the president’s inauguration. The reporting, storytelling, production and innovation, across all of our CNN platforms, came together beautifully. It is clear that the capability of this organization to inform, enlighten and entertain on big stories is limitless.” NYT / Media Decoder For a channel that needs to find its voice, this was a distinctive way to start. Fans of CNN may have noticed over the weekend that James Earl Jones’ voice is back, proclaiming “This is CNN” in his authoritative baritone. Access Atlanta / Radio & TV Talk While this move will not exactly move the needle in terms of CNN’s popularity as a network, it evokes warm memories of the network’s heyday before Fox News came on the scene.

Jake Tapper Makes CNN Debut (HuffPost)
Jake Tapper made his CNN debut on Tuesday. The former ABC White House correspondent appeared on The Situation Room to talk about Hillary Clinton’s upcoming testimony before the Senate, as well as his new role as CNN’s chief Washington correspondent. Later in the year, Tapper will become the host of his own show on the network. Politico / Dylan Byers on Media CNN’s new chief Washington correspondent Tapper has posted his first scoop for the network: “deputy secretary of state for management and resources Tom Nides is leaving the Obama administration, Nides told CNN this afternoon.” Tapper’s article does not mention that Nides is married to CNN vice president and deputy Washington bureau chief Virginia Moseley, who like Tapper recently joined the network from ABC News.

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Joseph Meyer, Brother-in-Law of Jared Kushner, Named Observer CEO(FishbowlNY)
Joseph Meyer, the brother-in-law of Jared Kushner, has been named the Observer Media Group’s new CEO. Meyer comes to the company from Elliott Management, a hedge fund. He is only 33 years old. New York / Daily Intelligencer In addition to a history at hedge funds (Paul Singer’s Elliott Management, Michael Dell’s MSD Capital), Meyer “is a trusted member of my family,” according to a memo sent to staff by Ivanka Trump’s husband Tuesday. As noted by The Wall Street Journal, “He is married to Mr. Kushner’s sister, Nicole.”

New York Times Redesigns its Print-Edition Feature Sections(JimRomenesko.com)
The redesigns of New York Times features sections began Tuesday with the new look of “Science Times.” A Times release says: “The sections, created during the 1970’s, have each been refreshed and updated repeatedly over the years, but this is the first time all of the weekly feature sections have been redesigned as a whole.”HuffPost Times design director Tom Bodkin said of the redesign, “The goal was not to create an entirely new look, but to develop a more coherent, accessible, underlying structure across all sections.” Additionally, the Times’ popular wedding section “Vows” has been turned into a standalone package within the paper’s Sunday “Styles” section.

Barbara Walters on the Mend After Falling and Hitting Her Head (LA Times / Ministry of Gossip)
Barbara Walters is on the road to recovery after taking a tumble at an inauguration party over the weekend. “Barbara went to Washington to cover the inauguration,” Whoopi Goldberg, her co-host on The View, said on the show Tuesday. “She missed a step and had a fall, which cut her upper temple. The doctors stitched her up, and she is doing fine, but they want her to take it easy.”

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CBS’ Hopper Award Knock Could Set Back Media Ownership Rules (Adweek)
When CBS torpedoed CNET’s planned “best of show” award for Dish’s Hopper, it may have also blown to bits broadcasters’ best chance for looser media ownership rules at the Federal Communications Commission. In a letter filed Tuesday with the FCC, public interest group Public Knowledge says CBS’ actions demonstrate unequivocally why the agency should ditch its proposal to loosen the rules, currently under review.

Donald Trump Exploring Improbable Ways He Might Buy The New York Times(New York / Daily Intelligencer)
Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the last year trying to make news, first with his birther obsession, and more recently demanding comedian Bill Maher pay him $5 million. (Maher offered the sum for proof Trump wasn’t the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.” Trump released his own birth certificate and threatened to sue Maher for the money.) Now Trump is exploring ways to make news in a more literal way: by acquiring The New York Times.

Brain Tumor Kept Martin Bashir Out of Work (FishbowlDC)
It was reported in 2008 that MSNBC’s Martin Bashir has a brain tumor. The illness is still there and causing problems. “I have a brain tumor,” Bashir told FishbowlDC Monday night when asked why he was absent from his TV program Friday. “It’s fine but it causes a problem from time to time,” he said.

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Is It Real? Witness Builds an App to Verify User-Submitted Content (Nieman Journalism Lab)
Whether it’s photos of flooding during Hurricane Sandy, or videos of eagles stealing babies, it’s not always easy to detect fakery. And when you think of the number of videos and photos produced by our phones each day, it can be problematic for news organizations trying to deal with submissions from readers.

Al Jazeera America Is Hiring (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media)
Al Jazeera, which is set to replace Current TV with the launch of Al Jazeera America, has posted 105 new jobs in the United States — 98 in New York City, where AJ America will be based, and seven in Washington.

Will CBS Unload Its Publishing Business? (Investor Place)
CBS CEO Les Moonves has made no secret of his desire to unload the company’s marginally profitable outdoor advertising business. Monday, he pulled the trigger by announcing plans to convert its U.S. portion into a real estate investment trust (REIT) and sell the rest. Investors might pressure him to do the same with the media giant’s Simon & Schuster publishing business.

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Analysis: Dodgers, Time Warner Cable Bet Big on Sports Growth (Variety)
By partnering to launch a new regional cable network in an overflowing market rather than making a straightforward rights deal, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Time Warner Cable have doubled down on their belief that skyrocketing revenues in the sports TV world are anything but a bubble.

Hollywood Pushes Back Against Zero Dark Thirty Critics (PRNewser)
We haven’t seen Zero Dark Thirty yet, but we are intrigued by the PR back-and-forth between the film’s makers/promoters and various members of the U.S. government. A couple of questions are central to the controversy: Does the film glorify torture and imply that information gained during torture sessions eventually led to the location and assassination of Osama bin Laden? Did the filmmakers act inappropriately in collecting information from confidential sources within the Central Intelligence Agency?

5 Ways Journalists Can Use Social Media to Resurface Old Content (Poynter / How To’s)
Journalists are finding that social media gives them ample opportunities to breathe new life into archived content. Recently, they’ve used social networking sites — while covering deaths, anniversaries, birthdays and ongoing stories — to resurface old content that their audiences may otherwise never see. Here are some examples of how they’ve done it, along with five related tips.

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On-Screen the Second Time Around, the Silly and the Sublime(NYT)
Second inaugurations are rarely as exciting as the first ones, and when the first was a never-before-seen historic moment, television has a hard time trying to whip up a similar sense of wonder and novelty (even MTV carried the 2009 event live, but not this year’s). The result was a weird combination of canned statements about the majesty and pageantry of democracy and more spontaneous rubbernecking at celebrity faces — and Justice Antonin Scalia’s choice of poofy Renaissance headwear. HuffPostCable news pundits mostly fell along predictable lines when assessing President Obama’s second inaugural address on Monday. What everyone seemed to agree on was that Obama had given an unexpectedly forceful speech. On MSNBC, the praise was overflowing. Chris Hayes called it “surprisingly liberal,” and Chris Matthews, in typically unrestrained form, said it was “Lincolnesque.” Amidst the love, Ed Schultz said Obama’s unmentioned drone policy could cause him trouble. TVNewser Egged on by Brian Williams, David Gregory, Chuck Todd and others, Al Roker got what might be considered the first interview of the second term of President Obama. “Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President,” Roker yelled as Obama walked the final portion of the Inaugural Parade. “How is it going? Is the weather good? You like it?,” he yelled. President Obama responded with a wave and a look up as an acknowledgment that it is indeed good. “I think you met the minimum standard,” said Williams. “Question asked, question answered.” THR / Bastard Machine Before all the pundits came out from both sides of the political aisle to dissect the inauguration speech of President Obama — returning us to a divided America — there was a long time on our television sets when it seemed like the force of tradition and democracy were at work, bringing the entire country a glimpse of what a free nation does with its leadership. It was, let’s be honest for just a moment, actually refreshing and even uplifting. And then, yes, Fox News got its claws into the speech and CNN and others got their say — via pundits — and we returned to our divided nation with our divided news channel loyalties. The Daily Beast In terms of star wattage on the day, it ranked well below President Obama’s address, Kelly Clarkson’s “My Country Tis of Thee,” and Beyoncé’s national anthem. Heck, it probably even generated more cellphone checks and minds wandering than the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir or Chuck Schumer’s schticky emceeing. But Richard Blanco’s sparse, simple yet sweeping inaugural poem “One Today,” may have provided one of the inauguration ceremony’s most memorable moments, and stood as a rare break from the staid custom of ceremony that the rest of the afternoon brought. The Atlantic Wire Something about cable news, for all its hollow awfulness, and the Internet, in all its quickness and overindulgence, has made these Big Special Days far more engaging than they used to be. We’ve all become meta critics, commenting on not just the meat of the show — Beyoncé’s national anthem, Joe Biden’s exuberant glad-handing — but all the production values and editorial choices and crafted themes. WSJ / Washington WirePresident Obama’s second inauguration was scaled back from his first in terms of cost and scale. But it outshined his 2009 inauguration in one major way: how it played out on social media. There were 1.1 million inauguration-related tweets sent during the ceremony, up from about 82,000 in 2009, according to Twitter’s Government and Politics Team.

FT Announces Buyouts in Quest to be ‘A Digital Platform First, and a Newspaper Second’ (paidContent)
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber wrote in an email to staff Monday that the newspaper will offer staff buyouts in an attempt to save £1.6 million as it also hires 10 new employees on the digital side. “The intention is to reduce the cost of producing the newspaper and give us the flexibility to invest more online,” he wrote in the email. About 35 people would need to take the buyout, or layoffs will begin.Politico / Dylan Byers on Media In his email, Barber said he was inspired by Silicon Valley tech companies like Google and LinkedIn and Twitter, which are disrupting old media titles. “My visit to Silicon Valley last September confirmed the speed of change,” he wrote. “Our competitors are harnessing technology to revolutionize the news business through aggregation, personalization and social media. Mobile alone, for example, now accounts for 25 percent of all the FT’s digital traffic. It would be reckless for us to stand still.” The Guardian Barber acknowledged that the changes will be “wrenching” but added that they were vital to safeguard the future of the title. There was no reference in the memo to recent speculation about a possible sale of the FT by parent company Pearson, which has denied it is on the block. Mashable If 2013 seems like a late date for a newspaper to announce a “digital-first” strategy, you’re right. The Atlantic Media Company has been singing that slogan for more than six years now, and annual spending on digital advertising has already surpassed print, according to eMarketer’s calculations.

Amazon Children’s Publishing Names Two New Imprints (Publishers Weekly)
Roughly a year after the Amazon Children’s Publishing division launched, it has announced two new imprints. Two Lions will be home to picture books, chapter books and middle-grade fiction, and Skyscape will be devoted to titles for young adults, encompassing works from both established authors and new voices. paidContentThe expansion could help feed Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, Amazon’s new subscription product for kids. The program, aimed at 3- to 8-year-olds, offers unlimited access to eBooks, movies, TV shows, educational apps and games for a set monthly price (starting at $2.99).

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Fox & Friends Exposes Newest ‘Threat to the Left’: ‘Wildly Popular’ British TV Show Downton Abbey (Mediaite)
Downton Abbey, the British period drama, has become an immensely popular TV series, appealing to viewers and critics alike. But it’s not just entertainment: it has an underlying political narrative that “poses [a] threat to the left.” Or so Stuart Varney asserted Monday morning on Fox & Friends. HuffPost ”The politics of Downton are very important and it’s important that they are popular in America today,” Varney said. “Rich people, powerful people, in America today, are reviled. They’re dismissed as fat cats who don’t pay their fair share. We just hate ‘em — “Rich people are evil”… Yet, along comes this show Downton Abbey — rich people prominently featured and they’re generous; they’re nice people; they create jobs, for heaven’s sake; they’re classy; they’ve got style and we love ‘em… That show is wildly popular, which poses a threat to the left, doesn’t it?”

Sinclair Broadcasting ‘Owns’ Social Media Accounts of Its On-Air Talent(JimRomenesko.com)
WHAM-TV (Rochester, N.Y.) reporter Rachel Barnhart tells her followers that Sinclair Broadcasting, which recently acquired WHAM, has a policy of “owning” the social media accounts of its on-air talent.

Newspapers Are So Poor, They’re Leasing Out Laid Off Reporters’ Desks (The Atlantic Wire)
Things aren’t as bad as they used to be in the newspapers business, but they’re not good either. Perpetually faced with declining ad revenue, several papers have become landlords recently to make ends meet.

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Sundance 2013: Are Filmmakers Vain or Nostalgic? The Digital Distribution Dilemma (The Wrap / Sundance Report)
Are filmmakers vain for wanting theatrical distribution? At a Wrap panel at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, filmmaker Lynn Shelton and other indie veterans crossed swords with digital distribution executives in a debate about the future of independent film and how it can find profitability.

The Biggest Roadblock to Media Success? A Traditional Culture of Journalistic Hubris (paidContent)
There have been plenty of post-mortems written on the traditional newspaper industry, and there are likely more in the works — and many portray the problem as a classic version of Clay Christensen’s “innovator’s dilemma,” one in which the main players see the storm of disruption approaching, and yet still can’t respond. In a new book called Rebuilding the News, journalism professor C.W. Anderson tries to describe some of the reasons why this happened, and one of his main targets is traditional journalistic culture.

Tightening on the Beltway: After a Hiring Binge, D.C. Media Players Go On a Diet (Adweek)
D.C. is a different story today. The Economist Group’s CQ Roll Call laid off about 30 last summer when it consolidated its two print brands into one. National Journal, part of David Bradley’s Atlantic Media, cut 10 news staffers late last year in a reorganization. This month, Bloomberg eliminated a reported 20 out of 250 from Bloomberg Government (others whisper the number is at least 40), and Politico let go a handful of staff.

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News Corp.’s Sky Deutschland Posts Smaller 2012 Loss, Adds Subscribers(THR)
Sky Deutschland, the long-suffering German pay-TV group now controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., is inching closer to breaking even. The company on Monday posted full-year 2012 financials that showed its loss decline sharply amid double-digit subscriber growth.

Everyone on Cable News Is an ‘Idiot’ or Terrible Person, According to Google Instant Search (Mediaite)
If one were to gauge the American public’s opinion of cable news personalities solely on Google’s autofill, you’d think this country absolutely hates every single person who has ever appeared on television.

Sirius XM Radio Creating Comedy Central Channel (Yahoo! News / AP)
Sirius XM Radio and Comedy Central are teaming up to create a new channel on the satellite radio service devoted to showcasing the television network’s stable of stand-up comics. The companies said Tuesday that they are hoping to launch the channel this spring, preferably around April Fools’ Day. Sirius already has eight channels devoted to comedy, including Laugh USA, Blue Collar Comedy, Raw Dog Comedy and Jamie Foxx’s Foxxhole.

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Blockbuster to Close 300 U.S. Stores (Deadline New York)
That represents 35 percent of the 850 domestic Blockbuster stores that Dish Network reported it still had at the end of September. “Some of the approximately 300 stores are reaching the end of their lease and others are closing based on overall performance,” company spokesman John Hall says.

Science Journalism’s Great Divide (CJR / The Observatory)
Science journalists in the West have a bleaker outlook on the future of their profession than their colleagues in the Global South, according to a survey of the field released this month.

Hoda Kotb on Life ‘Working Out the Way It’s Supposed to’ (TVNewser)
In a business known for big egos and petty jealousies, Hoda Kotb is a dose of Zen. Life “is working out the way it’s supposed to work out,” Kotb tells TVNewser, reflecting on her 15th anniversary with NBC News. Co-anchoring the fourth hour ofToday with Kathie Lee Gifford “fits like a puzzle piece, it just clicks… The show is a great place for me, and a happy place.”

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Katie Couric Gets First On-Camera Interview with Manti Te’o(TVNewser)
Manti Te’o has granted his first on-camera interview following revelations of a hoax involving a fake girlfriend to ABC’s Katie Couric. The interview will air on Couric’s syndicated show Katieon Thursday with previews airing on all ABC News programs. NYT / Media Decoder Excerpts from the interview will be broadcast in advance on Good Morning America and other ABC News programs. Te’o will be joined by his parents, Brian and Ottilia, for the interview. Te’o apparently misled his father about the girlfriend, claiming at one point that he’d met her in Hawaii. THR Couric and her staff beat out a number of other interviewers who tried to score a sit-down with Te’o, including Oprah Winfrey, according to The New York Times. The spokesman hired by Te’o’s family in recent days, Matthew Hiltzik, is also the longtime spokesman for Couric. Fox News / AP Te’o gave an off-camera interview with ESPN on Friday night. He insists he was the victim of the hoax, not a participant. The Heisman Trophy runner-up said he had an online romance with a woman he never met and in September was informed that the woman died from leukemia. Te’o told ESPN that the person suspected of being the mastermind of the hoax has contacted him and apologized. Reuters The tragic story of his girlfriend and her injuries from a car accident and death from leukemia was one of the most widely recounted U.S. sports stories last year as Notre Dame made a drive toward the college football national championship game. USA Today The person said the advice Te’o has received for the Couric interview is simply to tell the truth. Among the motivations for the interview, the person said, is that the family wants to show how it has hurt them, how it wasn’t just their son who was fooled, and to talk publicly about the scam so that it doesn’t happen to other people.

Barbara Walters Injured in Fall at British Ambassador’s Residence (TVNewser)
ABC’s Barbara Walters, in Washington for coverage of the inauguration, fell on a stair while visiting the British Ambassador’s residence Saturday evening. The fall left her with a cut on her forehead. “Out of an abundance of caution, she went to the hospital to have her cut tended to, have a full examination and remains there for observation,” said ABC News spokesperson Jeffrey Schneider. “Barbara is alert (and telling everyone what to do), which we all take as a very positive sign,” he adds. Deadline Hollywood Walters had been scheduled to contribute to ABC’s coverage of inaugural events but will not be on-air Monday and may not be back on the air, including for The View, for the better part of a week depending on what doctors say. Fox News / APWalters had heart surgery in May 2010 but returned to active duty on The View that September, declaring, “I’m fine!” Even in her ninth decade, Walters continues to keep a busy schedule, including appearances on The View, prime-time interviews and her annual special, “10 Most Fascinating People,” on which, in December, she asked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie if he considered himself fit enough to be president someday. LA Times / Show Tracker Rumors of impending retirement have surrounded Walters in recent years. She stopped doing her annual Oscar-night celebrity specials in 2010, and reportedly told President Obama in 2011 that she would retire “next year.” However, ABC News has batted away the rumors and Walters remains a panelist on the talk show The View.

Condoleezza Rice Joins CBS News as Contributor (THR)
Condoleezza Rice will be joining CBS News as a contributor, the network stated. On Sunday, the former secretary of state appeared as a panelist on Face the Nation with anchor Bob Schieffer, who announced the news. TVNewser ”Everybody knows Condoleezza Rice was President Bush’s secretary of state but I’m highly pleased to announce she has a new job. As of today, she’s joining CBS News as a contributor,” said Schieffer. Rice is also currently a professor of political science at Stanford University where she was provost from 1993-1999. NYT / Media Decoder Rice, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, and national security adviser from 2001 to 2005, is expected to comment regularly on national and international issues, CBS said.

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To Usher in Second Term, News Outlets Go to Capital (NYT / Media Decoder)
If he squints hard enough, President Obama will be able to see CNN from his perch on the inaugural podium on Monday. The cable news channel has set up an elaborate studio on the National Mall — one of the four locations where its anchors will be leading coverage of Obama’s second inaugural celebration. “The goal is to put our anchors in the middle of all the activity,” said Sam Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief. CNN / Richard Blanco Being named poet laureate for the inauguration personally validates and stitches together several ideals against which I have long measured America, since the days of watching My Three Sons and The Dick Van Dyke Show reruns. For one, the essence of the American dream: how a little Cuban-American kid on the margins of mainstream America could grow up with confidence, have the opportunity to become an engineer thanks to the hard work of his parents who could barely speak English, and then go on, choosing to become a poet who is now asked to speak to, for and about the entire nation. GalleyCat Inaugural poet Richard Blanco will read a poem for President Obama in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration, but many of our readers have not read his work yet. We’ve linked to 14 of Blanco’s poems online, including the free poetry chapbook, Place of Mind.

TV Shows Are Violent — and Viewers Like Them That Way (The Record)
There’s way too much violence on television — that’s a refrain we hear every time a horrific mass shooting happens in the United States. And yet, blood-soaked dramas consistently reel in viewers, so who, if anyone, is at fault for all the onscreen mayhem? NYT The aftermath of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School is probably not the best time to start a new series about a serial killer with a murderous cult. The Following, which begins Monday on Fox, has already become a reference point in the debate about violence in entertainment.

TV Networks Have Wallets Out at Sundance (Variety)
It won’t be long before the usual suspects at the Sundance Film Festival — Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, the Weinstein Co., et al. — begin making splashy headlines, with agents mulling multiple offers on hot acquisitions titles Don Jon’s Addiction, The Spectacular Now and Austenland after a packed weekend of screenings. But while visions of theater marquees dance in the heads of every filmmaker here, and VOD is hailed ad nauseam as the hero of the indie business model, television has been quietly creeping into the festival, which is increasingly being used as a promotional platform — and in many cases, a pipeline filler — for the smallscreen.

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Board Running Voice of America, Radio Free Europe is Condemned in Hard-Hitting Probe (New York Daily News)
The White House-appointed board overseeing government-funded broadcasts to 100 countries is a dysfunctional mess beset by “acute internal dissension” revolving around a longtime friend of former President George W. Bush, according to a new inspector general’s report obtained by the Daily News.

Swarming a Book Online (NYT)
Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published. In the biggest, most overt and most successful of these campaigns, a group of Michael Jackson fans used Facebook and Twitter to solicit negative reviews of a new biography of the singer. They bombarded Amazon with dozens of one-star takedowns, succeeded in getting several favorable notices erased and even took credit for Amazon’s briefly removing the book from sale. “Books used to die by being ignored, but now they can be killed — and perhaps unjustly killed,” said Trevor Pinch, a Cornell sociologist who has studied Amazon reviews. “In theory, a very good book could be killed by a group of people for malicious reasons.”

NRA Turns to Cable TV to Raise Money, Air Gun Rights Issues (HuffPost / Reuters)
When President Barack Obama announced a raft of proposals in the biggest U.S. gun-control push in decades, Cam Edwards, host of Sportsman Channel’s Cam & Company talk show, wasted no time siding with the National Rifle Association. “Assault weapon is a made-up name for a gun I can ban,” said Edwards, an avowed Second Amendment advocate, who later in the program read, word for word, the NRA’s statement in response to Obama’s announcement. Edwards, whose show is produced by NRA News, is one of the cable TV personalities the NRA hopes will promote the right of Americans to bear arms.

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Publishing Cheer as Buyers Seek Out Interesting Reads (BBC News)
It’s no surprise that 2012’s bestseller lists in Britain and America are dominated by EL James with the Fifty Shades trilogy and by Suzanne Collins with her Hunger Gamesbooks. Then there are other writers you might expect such as JK Rowling (The Casual Vacancy) and Jeff Kinney (the Wimpy Kid stories). But the inclusion of a handful of less obvious names may cheer those who think publishers and readers no longer value the interesting one-off novel.

How to Solve Adland’s Diversity Problem (Ad Age / Lincoln Stephens)
In 1963, the Urban League of Greater New York (now known as the New York Urban League) released a report on a three-year study of the city’s largest advertising agencies to learn how many African-Americans they employed. That same year, the New York City Commission on Human Rights hosted a discussion titled “What are agencies doing about equal job opportunity, and can they do more?” Fast forward to 2013, exactly 50 years later, and we find ourselves asking the exact same question.

An App to Sift Through Books (NYT / Media Decoder)
How do you find out what books friends and family are reading and loving? One answer is a conversation face to face — but that is so old-fashioned. Another is to join social media sites devoted to books, like Goodreads.com or Shelfari.com — but that takes time and commitment. You could follow book recommendations from friends on Facebook — but you would have to dig through other preferences. Random House says these options are fine, but not enough.

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Dish Touts CES Would-Be Award, Slams CBS in Ad for Commercial-Zapping Hopper (Deadline Hollywood)
Dish is using the recent controversy over the Best In Show award the satcaster’s new Hopper with Sling DVR did not receive as a recruiting tool. The ad-zapping service was awarded the top prize by the editors of CNET before they were overruled by corporate parent CBS, who is suing Dish over Hopper. Sunday Dish bought full-page ads in several major newspapers to crow about the award it didn’t get and blast CBS.

BBC World News Steps Up (Variety)
BBC World News, the pubcaster’s 24-hour global news web, has begun broadcasting from its new home — the hi-tech hub of New Broadcasting House. The switch to new premises, in the heart of London’s West End shopping district, comes with an on-screen rebrand and a new schedule offering what the Beeb claims are higher-quality production values, which it hopes will help boost distribution globally.

NHL Coverage Starts Strong on NBC (Deadline Hollywood)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and ratings go higher. The much delayed start of the NHL season over protracted negotiations between players and the league scored for NBC.

TVNewser 3.2 Million Watch Armstrong Interview On OWN

TVSpy Peter Liguori Named CEO of Tribune Co.

SocialTimes Google+ Expands Its Mobile Presence

AllFacebook Storify Curator Shows Private Facebook Posts

AllTwitter Executives Beware: The S.E.C. Doesn’t ‘Get’ Twitter

AppNewser Hearst is Releasing Digital Magazines to iPad Before Print

GalleyCat 41 New Bookstores Opened Last Year

PRNewser Retailers Beat Celebs and Entertainment Brands on Social Media

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Meredith Vieira Said to Be in Talks for Daytime Show(NYT / Media Decoder)
Meredith Vieira, the former co-host of NBC’s Today show, is in talks with another division of NBCUniversal about hosting a syndicated talk show. The daytime series would start no sooner than September 2014, people with knowledge of the discussions said. The people insisted on anonymity because the discussions were private and could end without a deal for a new show.TVNewser The show, if it happens, could potentially put Vieira up against her former program The View in some markets, and her predecessor on TodayKatie Couric in others. HuffPost Vieira stepped down as the co-host of Today in 2011. She continued to host Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and to do occasional reporting for NBC News. But last week, Vieira announced that she was leaving Millionaire. She alluded to new projects she was working on with NBC. B&CThe most likely time slot for any new show on the NBC-owned television stations is 2 p.m., the slot currently occupied by CBS Television Distribution’s Jeff Probst, which is averaging a 0.8 live plus same day household rating in its rookie season. Probst is cleared in two-year deals on the NBC-owned stations, but not in the rest of the country, and many do not expect the show to return next year. Deadline Hollywood If she headlines a daytime talk show, Vieira will follow in the footsteps of her Today predecessors Jane Pauley, whose NBCU-produced show was a bust, and Katie Couric, whose ABC-Disney freshman talker is doing OK. NBC Domestic TV Distribution is currently without a top executive as Barry Wallach just announced his departure as president.

‘Dear Abby’ Advice Columnist Dies at Age 94 (Yahoo! / AP)
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She was 94. Phillips died Wednesday in Minneapolis after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, said Gene Willis, a publicist for the Universal Uclick syndicate. Forbes / Mixed Media While still widely syndicated, “Dear Abby” has lost most of the cultural currency it enjoyed during its decades-long heyday, when it was referenced in numerous movies, songs and works of fiction. While it finally established a presence on Twitter last September, @dearabby has tweeted only a handful of times and has just 45 followers.

Networks Angling for Manti Te’o Interview (TVNewser)
As the Manti Te’o hoax story spreads across the media landscape, the race is on to get the first interview with the star Notre Dame football player. TVNewser hears that ESPN and NBC News have both been making their pitch to Notre Dame and people close to Te’o, and it is safe to assume that many other news outlets have been as well. Ad Age / Media NewsMedia outlets are rushing to assess what they said, what they verified and what went wrong in covering Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and the death of his girlfriend — who, Deadspin reported Wednesday, never existed. TV, magazines and newspapers had all taken up the story of Te’o’s on-field success despite the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, just hours apart in September. The compelling narrative may have helped his chances for a Heisman trophy; he ultimately came in second. Now editors and journalists are facing questions about the answers they did not get before. New York Daily News Te’o has gone into hiding, but his girlfriend is everywhere — online, of course. The Internet did what the Internet does best on Thursday, and people are jumping all over the Notre Dame linebacker, who, it turns out, never had a girlfriend named Lennay Kekua who died tragically and inspired him during a Heisman-caliber season. Poynter / MediaWire Deadspin editor-in-chief Tommy Craggs says Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey were faced with a tough question when reporting their now famous Te’o story: “What lengths do we go to, to try and prove a negative?”

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Lance Armstrong Joins the Ranks of Famous TV Confessors (Today / The Clicker)
When Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey aired Thursday, he became a member of a very specific club: disgraced public figures who’ve addressed their wrongdoings by way of television. Whether the truth-telling is a matter of national concern or mostly a step in repairing an image (and often, a subsequent livelihood), the medium continues to be the most reliable way of getting a message out to the masses. USA Today Saying his “mythic, perfect story” was “one big lie,” Lance Armstrong admitted that he cheated during most of his famed cycling career and that he bullied people who dared to tell the truth about it. After denying doping allegations for more than a decade, he also said he used banned drugs or blood transfusions during all seven of his victories in the Tour de France. “I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people,” Armstrong told talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview that aired Thursday night. Forbes / Mixed Media If there’s one thing Armstrong proved in part one of his two-part sit-down with Winfrey on her OWN cable channel, it was that he’s not especially good at selling his version of the truth, or at least not as good as a focused, well-prepared Winfrey is at poking holes in it. With his long pauses, abundant use of the passive voice, inconsistent eye contact and inappropriate smiles, the world’s most famous cyclist made it clear, at a minimum, that there was a lot more running through his head than a desire to come clean.

Exclusive: Fox Renews Karl Rove Contract Through 2016 (Politico)
Fox News Channel is expected to announce shortly that Karl Rove has signed a multi-year deal to remain a Fox contributor through the 2016 election. The contract assures the ratings-leader cable news network that it will retain one of its most popular commentators, and someone whose views continually make news, especially in the heat of a campaign.TVNewser Rove made headlines on election night when he disputed FNC’s call of the election for President Obama. Fox News founder and chairman Roger Ailes recounted what happened in an interview with TVNewser: “As it turned out Rove was wrong. He backed down. Our guys were right. We stayed with it. Megyn did her famous walk down the hall. And it all worked out.” Rove joined Fox as a contributor in February 2008. Before that he was senior adviser to President George W. Bush. The Washington Post / Post Politics ”Karl’s detailed knowledge of state and national politics, as well as fundraising and strategy, makes him an important player in our ongoing political coverage and we look forward to him continuing his analysis across all platforms for Fox News and Fox Business,” Ailes said in a statement. New York / Daily Intelligencer Ailes recently signed on through 2016, too, following Fox News stars Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Megyn Kelly, whose contract expires this year, could round out a ragtag starting lineup, with Dennis Kucinich serving as some sort of sixth man.

Biden: Media Need to Better Promote Parental Control Tools (B&C)
Speaking to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden, outlining the White House’s gun violence initiatives, made a pitch for studies “on the impacts of young minds on witnessing repetitive violent acts in movies, on television and video games,” but also indicated the industry was intent on helping and encouraged them to better advertise the parental control tools they have. Conducting and funding such research was one of the initiatives the vice president vowed to put all of his office’s muscle behind.

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Penguin Revamps Book Country, Adds Services, Reduces Cost to Authors (Publishers Weekly)
Book Country, an online writing community and self-publishing service launched by Penguin in 2011, is relaunching and redesigning the site in stages. The Book Country self-publishing site relaunched Thursday with reduced fees for each tier of service while adding a free self-publishing tier, higher royalties for authors and plans to eventually add an online bookstore. By late summer 2013, the site will also relaunch its writing community, opening the site to more fiction genres.

WSJ Scores Big on YouTube Channel Ratings, Thanks to Pixar (Ad Age / Digital)
While WSJDigitalNetwork is the biggest mover on the YouTube Original Channel Tracker this week, it’s Pixar who should be getting the credit. A teaser for the animation company’s short film The Blue Umbrella, which was posted on the channel, led to a big jump in viewership. The channel grew by 234 percent over last week to take the No. 9 spot amid the likes of AwesomenessTV and Clevver News.

Tribune Taps Peter Liguori to Be CEO, Eddy Hartenstein to Run LA Times, as Expected(Deadline New York)
This falls into the “as expected” category. We’ve known since November that Tribune was planning to offer the top job to Peter Liguori, who’s best known for his years as an executive at Fox and Discovery. Now that Tribune has emerged from bankruptcy protection, it’s widely believed that the company will focus on its broadcast properties which include 23 television stations as it tries to unload its fleet of newspapers which include the Los Angeles Times,Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant.

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Adam Carolla Sued for Allegedly Breaking Partnership Agreement (THR / Hollywood, Esq.)
Adam Carolla, host of the most downloaded podcast in the world and a recent addition to the Fox News Channel, is being sued by his former producer Donny Misraje for allegedly breaking their partnership agreement without cause. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in LA Superior Court and alleges that Misraje, his wife Kathee, and Sandy Ganz, a technology expert with a 10 percent ownership interest in the partnership, have not been paid for their “sweat equity” to make Carolla’s podcast enterprise work.

CBS News Names Mellody Hobson as Contributor and Analyst on All CBS News Platforms (Indiewire / Shadow and Act)
From being recently named as chairman of DreamWorks Animation in October, to getting engaged to George Lucas earlier this month, to Thursday’s news… Mellody Hobson has been the subject of mainstream press headlines, maybe more-so in recent months, than she’d been in years prior. CBS News announced Thursday that it has named Hobson as a contributor and analyst on finance and economy, and will appear across all CBS News platforms, includingCBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, as well as CBS’ radio and online platforms.

Major Papers’ Longform Meltdown (CJR / The Audit)
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider what it takes to explain complex problems, like say, the financial crisis, to the broader public. Or when you consider what it takes to lay out the evidence needed to properly support a story that makes explosive allegations against a powerful institution. It takes space.

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TVB: During 2012 Election, 80 Percent of TV Political Spending Was on Local Stations(TVSpy)
Local stations were the major beneficiary of political spending on television during the 2012 election, according to a new TVB study. More than 80 percent of total television spending in the political category was spent on local television, boosting stations’ political revenue 38 percent from the 2008 election.

Now Quarterly, Bloomberg Pursuits Adds to Masthead, Launches iPad App (Ad Week)
Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury lifestyle spinoff of Bloomberg Markets, is trying to make more inroads into fashion as it steps up its frequency to four times a year. In addition to launching an iPad app, which will automatically download to subscribers of the Markets app starting with the spring issue, new editor-in-chief Ted Moncreiff’s first, the magazine has added an art director and luxury marketing consultant.

Wikipedia Plans to Expand Mobile Access Around the Globe with New Funding (Nieman Journalism Lab)
On the list of this round’s winners of the Knight News Challenge, there is no bigger name than Wikipedia. With Knight’s $600,000 grant, the Wikimedia Foundation plans to increase the free encyclopedia’s reach on mobile, developing new software that will allow users to better access the site on feature phones through Wikipedia Zero.

10,000 Words Manti Te’o Scandal: How to Fact-Check in the Digital Age

AppNewser Theaters Encourage Twitter Users To Tweet in Seats

GalleyCat Book Country Adds Free Self-Publishing Option

PRNewser Study: PR Pros Are Much More Than ‘Yes Men’

SocialTimes Customers Reveal All: Why Brands Need to Pay Attention to Social Media

AllFacebook Facebook’s Graph Search Will Both Challenge And Help Brands

AllTwitter Make 2013 Your Best-Ever Year: A 12-Month Plan For Social Media Success

TVNewser Karl Rove Re-Signs with Fox News Through 2016 Election

TVSpy TVB: During 2012 Election, 80 Percent of TV Political Spending Was on Local Stations

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FishbowlNY WCBS-TV Reporter Tells Story of Long Island Kidnapping 20 Years Later

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Mediabistro Why do you think so many news orgs failed to catch the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax? mbist.ro/USRDS0 (via @tvnewser)

@richt3760 Wouldn’t SOME journalist think to do a story on #Teo’s girlfriend herself? That’s the strange thing about it.

@NewsGodess Didn’t ask enough questions, didn’t ask to i’view her, poor journalism & fear of backlash for doubting the story.

@DJNYC1 @NewsGodess Exactly. Ronald Reagan wasn’t even a journalist but he said it best: “Trust, but verify.” #Manti #hoax #notredame

Stephanie Fuqua Because they wanted to believe the narrative, and they were lazy.

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Fox News Signs Dennis Kucinich as Contributor(TVNewser)
Fox News Channel has signed former Congressman Dennis Kucinich as a paid contributor to FNC and Fox Business Network. Kucinich, who was for years a liberal stalwart in the House of Representatives, will provide analysis and commentary across all of FNC and FBN’s programs, beginning with Thursday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor. NYT / Media DecoderKucinich, a two-time presidential candidate known for his staunch antiwar views, lost his bid for re-election to the House of Representatives last year. The loss (to his primary opponent, Representative Marcy Kaptur) was not a surprise, because his Congressional district was largely eliminated when Ohio lawmakers redrew the state’s electoral map in 2011. Fox will give Kucinich a national platform for his views, as well as a paycheck. HuffPost / AP ”I’ve always been impressed with Rep. Kucinich’s fearlessness and thoughtfulness about important issues,” Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes said. “His willingness to take a stand from his point of view makes him a valuable voice in our country’s debate.” The Washington Post / Post Politics ”Through 16 years in Congress and two presidential campaigns, Fox News has always provided me with an opportunity to share my perspective with its enormous viewership,” Kucinich (D-Ohio) said in a statement. “I look forward to a continuation of our relationship, this time as a Fox News contributor.” Politico / Dylan Byers on Media Kucinich was considered one of the House’s most liberal members while he was in office. During his stint in Congress, Kucinich sued President Barack Obama in federal court over whether the president illegally circumvented Congress when he approved U.S. military action in Libya, attempted to impeach both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and received an “F” grade from the NRA for his pro-gun control voting record. He is also well-known for his environmental platform and his vegan diet. Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Strange Bedfellows Kucinich has been a not-infrequent guest on Fox. Critics have argued that the network, which has hired a bevy of former Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates — e.g. Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin — seeks out the most extreme “liberal” voices it can find.

NRA Ad Calls NBC’s David Gregory ‘Elitist Hypocrite’ (TVNewser)
A new ad from the National Rifle Association features NBC News anchor David Gregory, calling him an “elitist hypocrite,” apparently in response to his tough interview with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre. It was during that interview that Gregory held up a 30-round rifle magazine, almost getting himself in legal trouble before the DC Attorney General decided not to press charges late last week. HuffPost ”Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes but he’s just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security,” the ad says. When the words “Elitist Hypocrite” come on screen, a graphic of Obama is shown. Flanking him are Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Senator Dianne Feinstein — and Gregory.Politico / Dylan Byers on Media In a statement, NBC News told Politico the news organization is against the use of its journalists in political advertisements. “NBC News firmly objects to the use of our journalists in any political ad,” the statement said. “David Gregory’s role as moderator of Meet the Press is to ask tough questions of guests representing all sides of the issues.” New York Daily News The White House slammed the NRA as “cowardly” after the powerful gun lobby dragged President Obama’s daughters into the raging debate over gun control by placing them in a controversial commercial. Spokesman Jay Carney said the NRA crossed the line when the group referenced Sasha, 11, and Malia, 14, in a spot calling the commander-in-chief an “elitist hypocrite” because his girls get armed Secret Service protection. THR In his address Wednesday laying out a road map to curb gun violence, President Obama made only a glancing reference to the role violent video games may have in glamorizing firearms and said nothing at all about the responsibilities of the film or television industries. Even so, associations representing film and television producers and the cable broadcasting and gaming industries were quick to issue statements affirming their support for the president’s initiative, while pointing to what they regard as the cultural complexity of the gun issue. San Francisco Chronicle / AP No connection was suggested between bloody entertainment fictions and real-life violence. Instead, the White House is calling on research on the effect of media and video games on gun violence. Among the 23 executive measures signed Wednesday by Obama is a directive to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and scientific agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence. The order specifically cited “investigating the relationship between video games, media images and violence.”

The Big ‘Get’: What Can Lance Do for Oprah? A Lot (USA Today)
The sports world is holding its breath, waiting to hear exactly what shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong will say in his interview with Oprah Winfrey. Airing Thursday on OWN’s Oprah’s Next Chapter (Part 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Part 2 Friday at 9 p.m.) and streaming live on Oprah.com, the interview will be the first time fans hear from the seven-time Tour de France winner since his doping scandal erupted in October. An Armstrong interview is long overdue, and it’s seen as a chance for him to come clean, earn forgiveness and try to start polishing the tarnished Livestrong image. For Winfrey and the entertainment world, it’s a huge coup, a huge “get.” Baltimore Sun / Susan Reimer Armstrong isn’t just looking for forgiveness from those who believed him when he denied for a decade that anything but hard work propelled him to the front for seven Tour de France victories. He is looking for a way back into competition, from which he has been banned for life, and some cover from a massive lawsuit that could cost him his fortune. And there is no better place to start than with Oprah, high priestess of confession television. TVNewser As for the decision to go with Oprah, as opposed to, say, ABC News or CBS, ABC News correspondent Neal Karlinsky says that it makes sense for Armstrong, even if it means journalists will be left wanting more. “I know from talking to people close to him on deep background, that he was in a very difficult place right now. I know he was looking at many different ways of trying to move himself forward,” Karlinsky said. “To be honest it was a little surprising to see Oprah’s name pop up to get the interview, but when you look at Armstrong it makes perfect sense for him.”

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Star-Ledger Announces Layoffs of 34 Employees, Including 18 Newsroom Staff (The Star-Ledger)
The Star-Ledger lost nearly 10 percent of its newsroom Wednesday as the state’s largest newspaper cut editors, photographers, news clerks and others in its first ever large-scale layoff. The jobs of 34 employees of the paper were eliminated, according to publisher Richard Vezza, who called it a “difficult day.” Poynter / MediaWire While other Advance newspapers have reduced staff and print frequency concurrently, Vezza tells his the reporters “I’ve been involved in no other plans to take us to three days a week.” But: “we are going to need to adjust our business as needs warrant,” he said. In a letter to employees announcing the layoffs, Vezza said the Star-Ledger is “considering the possibility of outsourcing the printing and delivery of the newspaper.”

Big Change at Lucky Magazine (WWD / Memo Pad)
Lucky magazine, struggling for the past two years as two different publishers and Condé Nast tried to turn around the flagging 12-year-old magazine, was jolted Wednesday by a major change in leadership. Marcy Bloom, the publisher since September 2011, was replaced, effective immediately, by Gillian Gorman Round, an executive who, until now, was mostly unknown outside Condé and held the title of senior vice president, brand development.Adweek Details of what Lucky’s e-commerce will entail are still sketchy, but Round said she sees e-commerce as being “a critical part” of the business. “Our advertiser revenue will continue to be incredibly important to us, but we are looking at all alternatives and incremental sources of revenue as is appropriate for a modern media model,” said Round. This move will certainly invite speculation of Lucky’s going digital-only, rumors of which have been circulating as its print ad pages continue to drop.

Martha Raddatz to Host New Show for ABC News/Yahoo! (TVNewser)
Starting this Friday, ABC’s chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz will host a weekly show for ABCNews.com called On the Radar. The show will offer viewers a look at the defense, intelligence and foreign affairs worlds through the lens of U.S. policy. The debut episode includes an interview with out-going secretary of defense Leon Panetta in Italy.

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Authors Guild Criticizes Condé Nast Freelancer Contract (GalleyCat)
The Authors Guild issued an alert for members, criticizing Condé Nast’s new boilerplate contract for freelancers. Condé Nast’s new contract “acquires a free 12-month right to option dramatic and multimedia rights to articles appearing in its magazines.”

Times Communications Executive Is Leaving (NYT / Media Decoder)
Robert Christie, senior vice president of corporate communications for The New York Times Company, is leaving the company and his position is being eliminated, the Times announced Wednesday.

Publishing Senior Executives Come to Grips with Post-Bookstore World (Digital Book World)
With the closure of Borders, shrinking library budgets and the pressure independent bookstores and Barnes & Noble are under due to the rise of eBooks and online book sales, bookstore and library shelf space has been shrinking markedly in the U.S. for several years. With less shelf space comes fewer opportunities for publishers to display their wares to consumers — and publishers are starting to come to grips with that future.

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Washington Post Mexico Bureau Chief Admits Plagiarizing Academic Journal in Panama Story (Washington City Paper / City Desk)
What is it with the Washington Post’s bureau chiefs and lifting copy? Just months after the paper’s India bureau chief admitted to paraphrasing quotes from an Indian magazine, William Booth, the Post’s bureau chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, admitted Wednesday afternoon that a story the Post published Sunday contained plagiarized material. “I am so sorry for what I did,” Booth said in a statement provided by the Post. “It was a very serious lapse.”

Dave Karger on How Journalists Can Land TV Appearances (FishbowlNY)
Dave Karger made quite a splash when, after almost two decades at Entertainment Weekly, he went to work for Fandango as chief correspondent. Now that he’s settled into the role, he tells Mediabistro what he’s been working on lately and offers up some advice for print journos looking to transition to TV.

GQ Publishes Offensive ‘Hottest Women’ List (Yahoo! / Shine)
GQ just released their “100 Sexiest Women of the Millennium” issue featuring Beyoncé on the cover as “Miss Millennium.” Flip through it and you’ll find the obvious nods to Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian, and Katie Holmes. But this year, the lad mag has included some ethnic specific categories that have some people raising their eyebrows.

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Winfrey, Frank Ocean Among GLAAD Award Nominees (Seattle Times / AP)
GLAAD has named the film Cloud Atlas, AMC’s reality show Small Town Security, and The New Yorker magazine among its nominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced on Wednesday 120 nominees in English-language categories and 33 nominees in Spanish-language categories.

Weekly World News — Purveyor of UFOs, Mutants, Divorces — to Erect a Paywall (The Wrap / Media Alley)
Elvis lives, mutants are taking over, UFOs are landing and Hillary Clinton is definitely divorcing Bill. But you’re going to have to pay up to learn any more than that. Weekly World News — the supermarket tabloid which once drew in readers at the check-out line with its flashy, if far-fetched, headlines — plans to announce a paywall on Thursday, though it’s unclear when the subscription requirement will go up.

Journalists Identify the Worst PR Jargon (PR Daily)
According to a report by twelve thirty eight, PR professionals are the worst at using buzzwords that have no real meaning. Each year, the firm surveys 500 journalists to find out which buzzwords, jargon, and terms PR pros use when working with them. The survey taps British reporters and editors from media outlets such as the BBC, The Telegraph, theFinancial Times, the Daily Mail, and more.

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PRNewser PR ‘Jargon’ to Avoid When Pitching Journalists (With Helpful Suggestions!)

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FishbowlDC Reporter Recalls Covering JFK Inauguration

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UnBeige Inside the Mind of Lola Montes Schnabel

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Mediabistro What’s your favorite music to write to? mbist.ro/WJr8y9 (via@GalleyCat)

@elascity Oddly, Abercrombie & Fitch radio.

@TheGiftLegacy Bach. Anyhow by anyone, but especially YoYo Ma’s cello.

Rick Webb Movie score soundtracks are fun to play in the background while writing. I’ve noticed them influencing my writing in dramatic ways!

Tim Pulice Jazz, preferably Blue Note from the ’50s and ’60s.

Wordplays Classical, or anything without lyrics :-)

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