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Youths Are Watching, but Less Often on TV

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:51:36 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Brian Stelter
Television is America's No. 1 pastime, with an average of four hours and 39 minutes consumed by every person every day. But more and more young people are tuning in elsewhere.

Disney's ABC, Univision Mull News-Channel Launch

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:11:37 -0500

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Arian Campo-Flores and Sam Schechner
Walt Disney and Univision are in talks to create a new 24-hour cable-news channel that will broadcast in English, in an effort to keep pace with changing demographics among U.S. Hispanics and reach a new audience of English speakers.

California DISCLOSE Act, Bill Putting More Sunlight into Campaign Finance, Dies

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:47 -0500

Full article: Huffington Post
A bill that would have given California voters more insight into the funding of political advertisements in the post-Citizens United era of unlimited spending by shadowy independent groups has failed to pass the state Assembly due to nearly unanimous opposition from GOP legislators.

Widening the Illinois Eavesdropping Laws

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:10:56 -0500

Full article: WBEZ
Jennifer Brandel
Some lawmakers want to give Illinois residents the right to record police officers. Illinois has one of the toughest eavesdropping laws in the country. As it stands, police and businesses can record citizens, but citizens can not record them back. Currently, recording an on-duty police officer, on public property, could mean felony charges and up to 15 years behind bars.

Social Media Win a Big One in Washington

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:32:40 -0500

Full article: Pew Research Center
Paul Hitlin and Sovini Tan
In a powerful show of strength for social media and technology leaders, the online community derailed, at least temporarily, major legislation that had garnered significant support among Washington politicians and lobbyists.

Call for Illegal Site Demotion on Search Engines

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:47:23 -0500

Full article: BBC News
Illegal content should be forcibly demoted in Web searches, a group of UK rights holders have suggested. The organizations argued that search sites were "overwhelmingly" directing users to illegal content.

It's True: We Really Are All Publishers Now, Including Brands

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:06 -0500

Full article: MediaShift
Amy Vernon
Though it's a relatively new idea, the phrase "We're all publishers now" already has become somewhat of a cliché. While it seems very democratizing, and it is, what many don't realize is that "we" doesn't refer only to individual bloggers. Brands are publishers, too, providing their own content and bypassing many of the old routes they used to use to get the word out.

Is iMessage Starting to Take a Bite Out of Standard Texting?

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:28:53 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Jenna Wortham
When Apple introduced iMessage, a service that lets people with its mobile devices send each other free text messages over data networks, many analysts predicted that it would take a substantial bite out of the profits that text messages generate for wireless carriers in the United States. Is there evidence that this is actually happening?

Free Press Action Fund Calls on Congress to Return MPAA's Dirty Money

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:16:14 -0500

Full article: Free Press
The Free Press Action Fund called on Congress to return campaign donations from the Motion Picture Association of America. In an interview last week, MPAA President Chris Dodd, a former U.S. senator, threatened to cut off campaign donations to members of Congress who vote against legislation the MPAA supports. It's time that Congress showed that its votes are no longer for sale.

Nielsen: Websites Can Increase Local TV Reach

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:25:29 -0500

Full article: MediaPost
David Goetzl
Nielsen research indicates that stations can use their websites to notably expand reach of their news content, helping drive cross-platform sales. The data, which looked at the ABC affiliates in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, shows that by using one metric, each received at least a 3 percent bump in the 25-to-54 demo in the May 2011 sweeps period.

Can't Buy Me Laws: Congress Must Give Back Chris Dodd's Dirty Money

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:08:02 -0500

Full article: SavetheInternet.com
Joel Kelsey
People inside the D.C. bubble often tell stories about lavish fundraisers and the use of campaign cash to shore up votes in Congress. Conspiracy theories about who uses their PAC money, or direct contributions, to bend the ear of powerful committee chairmen and party leaders circulate throughout the capital faster than the Metro. Still, the stories are usually hard to substantiate. Rarely is the systemic corporate capture of Washington, D.C., on display in such a transparent and ugly way as it was last week.

K Street's Boom Goes Bust

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:19:16 -0500

Full article: Politico
Anna Palmer
K Street boom days have come and gone. A bad economy and rigid stalemates on Capitol Hill took its toll on big firms for the second year in a row, with seven out of the 10 biggest lobbying groups reporting flat or negative revenues in 2011, a significant contrast with the double-digit growth many of the same firms experienced in the mid-2000s, according to recently filed federal lobbying reports.

Wikipedia to Join Reddit in SOPA Blackout

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:02:17 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Timothy B. Lee
Seeking to "send Washington a BIG message," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that the English version of Wikipedia will go dark on Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, anti-piracy bills now being considered by Congress. "Student warning!" Wales tweeted. "Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!"

iPhone's Marimba Halts New York Philharmonic

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:47:07 -0500

Full article: CNet
Chris Matyszczyk
Because people are sadly imperfect, cell phones ring at the most inopportune times. It happens in the movies. It happens in the opera. Rarely, though, does the art come to a halt because of a recalcitrant marimba. And yet an iPhone that rang, kept on ringing and interfered so much with Mahler's Ninth Symphony that the conductor downed his baton and the fiddlers dropped their bows. It was the New York Philharmonic. And it was, allegedly, an elderly man with a ringer on loud.

Major Broadcasters Sign Nine-Year NFL Deal

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:34:16 -0500

Full article: MediaPost
Wayne Friedman
NFL football will continue to be big business for the major TV broadcast networks for at least another decade -- with each paying big license fee increases for new deals.

'Calls from Home' Gives Incarcerated New Mexicans the Gift of Communication for the Holidays

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:36:09 -0500

Full article: Media Literacy Project
Media Literacy Project, Generation Justice and Thousand Kites have partnered with KUNM 89.9FM to produce and air <em>Calls from Home</em> on Sunday, Dec. 18. <em>Calls from Home</em> is a special radio project that connects prisoners to their families.

Don't Expect A Break on NBA League Pass

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:57:09 -0500

Full article: SB Nation
Tom Ziller
The NBA announced prices for its popular League Pass product: $169 for the full season.Last year, fans could get the TV package and complimentary broadband access for $189, with an additional $40 charge for mobile access. Of course, last season was, uh, a full season.

Two Giant Radio Groups Form Daily-Deal Alliance

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:48:52 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Ben Sisario
Two of the fastest-growing trends in media have been daily-deal websites and the aggregation of entertainment content online. Now the two biggest radio companies have formed an alliance to compete on both fronts.

Hey Nintendo: Get Out of Portables and Put Mario on the iPhone

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:40:14 -0500

Full article: Slash Gear
Don Reisinger
It's about time Nintendo gets out of the portable business entirely and starts offering games from its many popular franchises, including Mario and Zelda, on smartphones.

More Theaters Offer Alternative Programming

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:46:04 -0500

Full article: USA Today
Michaelle Bond
Instead of just showing the latest Hollywood blockbusters, multiplexes equipped with digital projection increasingly are providing patrons with a night at the ballet or the fights. And jeans-wearing opera lovers can enjoy a show at the same place they'd see a romantic comedy or an action movie.