The Media Drop

Nine albums by George Harrison are now going to be on sale digitally, the BBC reported on Wednesday. iTunes is to be one of the vendors through which the albums can be purchased.

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On Tuesday, Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman wrote about the fact that there weren’t any more photos showing up all over the Drudge Report. Bergman was discussing the rights issues, but there’s a whole different issue that at least one of the commenters over there discussed - hotlinking.
The fact of the matter is, Matt Drudge has […]

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FishbowlLA reports Tuesday that Betsy Morgan is joining The Huffington Post as CEO. Morgan was previously an SVP at CBS Interactive.

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So the other day, I was talking about the 50 Cent / Kanye West “battle” on album launch day, which was today. While there are some thoughts that are much more specific on who would win the battle between that pair, Jay Smooth hammers home a strong point about what needs to happen to make […]

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Oregon Public Broadcasting is opening up its source code in a way by asking anyone within its community to become a source of the media outlet. They’re teaming up with American Public Media to launch what will be called the Public Insight Network®, and will handle things in a different manner than what we’ve traditionally […]

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Over at Lost Remote last week, Michael Gay pointed out the ability for you to now drop video content from MTV’s Overdrive into your blog. Quite a big change from *ahem* these days, when Overdrive only worked for Internet Explorer users.
Instantly, MTV is actually relevant to significant numbers of people who’ve grown up addicted […]

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Thilk sends along this story from today’s Chicago Tribune about how Tribune will be distributing - sans in-city boxes and newsstands - the Chicago Sun-Times on behalf of that publisher. But the kicker just so happens to be in the middle of Phil Rosenthal’s column:
Sources also said the Tribune’s profit from the arrangement will exceed […]

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Just received a heads up that the Associated Press would be shutting down its “asap” service in October of this year. asap targeted young audiences, specifically the 18-35 crowd, with multimedia content that is much more “in your face” than any other AP delivery. The content encompassed entertainment, sports, finance, and of course the news […]

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After yesterday’s news that Dow Jones had, in principle, agreed on the takeover bid from News Corp., we knew that the board of the company, plus the Bancroft family, would be next to go. The Journal’s Sarah Ellison, who’s the one to follow inside this whole thing, writes Wednesday that the company’s board has approved […]

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This just in: Dow Jones deal taken by News Corp.
Okay, not that we’re surprised, but Dow Jones has tentatively accepted the deal for its acquisition by News Corp., for $5 billion. The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah Ellison, who has been covering this story since its inception, shares the details on how the process will go […]

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