Media News - Friday, May 17, 2013

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Yahoo in talks to acquire Tumblr

Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks. The deal is not done, but could reach as high as $1 billion, Adweek has learned. Such an acquisition could be just what CEO Mayer has been looking for to turn around Yahoo's momentum; Tumblr has the potential to excite the engineering/Silicon Valley community (even though it’s based in New York) while recapturing the imagination of advertisers, who have grown to view Yahoo as big but stale. (AdWeek)

New Google Glass apps include Facebook, Twitter and CNN

Social networking services Facebook Inc. and Twitter are coming to Google Glass, the wearable computer made by the Internet search company. Google Inc. announced on Thursday a half-dozen apps specially designed to work on its Glass devices. News network CNN, fashion magazine Elle, as well as online apps Tumblr and Evernote were among the half-dozen new apps for Glass unveiled during Google's annual developer conference in San Francisco. (The Huffington Post)

Bipartisan bill would force government to get a court order before seizing phone records

Yesterday, we heard that the Obama administration was pushing for the resurrection of a 2009 media shield law, but a separate bipartisan coalition is also introducing a bill that would make it harder for the government to obtain citizens’ phone records. It’s called The Telephone Records Protection Act, and it would stop the government from your phone records without a court order — whether you’re a journalist or not. The bill was introduced by representatives Justin Amash (R-MI), Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). (The Verge)

CCTV blames Dalai Lama, foreign media for instigating self-immolations

Chinese national television aired a lengthy prime time news feature blaming the Tibetan government-in-exile and foreign media for self-immolations in the country's Tibetan-populated areas. The half-hour news feature is part of recent efforts by Chinese state media to change the narrative of Chinese control over Tibet. It is the fifth such video aired over the last year, writes Beijing-based Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser in a tweet. At least 116 Tibetans have killed themselves in such acts of defiance against Chinese rule since 2009, according to overseas media reports. (The South China Morning Post)

BBC appoints Ian Katz and Jamie Angus as Newsnight and Today editors

The BBC has appointed new editors of flagship news shows News nightand Today, with Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz taking over the BBC2 show and its deputy editor Jamie Angus moving to the Radio 4 breakfast programme. Katz, who has been at the Guardian since 1990, succeeds the programme's previous full-time editor, Peter Rippon, who left at the height of the Savile scandal last year. Angus, who is currently deputy editor of Newsnight and a senior commissioner for BBC Global News, takes over Today from Ceri Thomas, recently appointed as BBC head of news programmes. (The Guardian)

Condé Nast Traveler to launch in Middle East

Condé Nast Traveler will launch in the Middle East in the next 12 months, said Jonathan Newhouse, chairman and chief executive of Condé Nast International. It will be the first Condé Nast brand available in the Middle Eastern market. Published under license agreement with Arab Publishing Partners (APP), a division of the ITP Group, the Gulf region’s largest consumer and business magazine publisher, it will be the eighth edition of Traveller available globally. (WWD)

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• 16/05/13 - New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz
• 16/05/13 - Bahrain sentences Twitter users to prison
• 16/05/13 - Tribune newspapers attract suitors, ‘noise’
• 16/05/13 - Just 18% of UK television presenters over 50 are women, study finds
• 15/05/13 - World Press Photo denies prize-winning image is fake
• 15/05/13 - Eric Holder defends AP seizure citing major security threat to public
• 15/05/13 - Google expected to start a competitor to Spotify
• 15/05/13 - Colombia: Hit man in Bogota targeting high-profile journalists
• 15/05/13 - Malaysia-based digital content firms Catcha Media and Says announce $20 million merger
• 15/05/13 - Beyoncé’s live photo ban prompts press backlash
• 14/05/13 - Phone records of journalists seized by U.S.
• 14/05/13 - CBS anchor scolds fellow journalists: ‘We’re getting big stories wrong, over and over again’
• 14/05/13 - BBC’s John Humphrys honoured at Sonys for George Entwistle interview
• 14/05/13 - ESPN, Twitter expand tie-up
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• 14/05/13 - Social network for the elite is getting even more exclusive
• 13/05/13 - Bloomberg apologizes to clients for data snooping
• 13/05/13 - TV news icon Barbara Walters to officially announce her retirement plans Monday on ‘The View’
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• 13/05/13 - Cyberattacks against U.S. corporations are on the rise
• 13/05/13 - ABC to offer live feed of network online through ‘Watch ABC’ app
• 13/05/13 - Print media layoffs loom: New York Post, Daily News and Village Voice plagued by staff reductions

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