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• Can the Empire State Building Brand Its View?

  Adweek.com - 19 minutes ago

  The law doesn’t allow for the trademarking of a great view, but there’s nothing wrong with branding it. Just ask the marketing folks at the Empire State Building. The 1931 landmark’s 86th floor observation deck (which boasts 80-mile views on clear days) already draws some 4 million people yearly, but Malkin Holdings apparently feels it can do better.

• WPP Created One Big Digital Shop From 8 Smaller Ones

  Adweek.com - 19 minutes ago

  WPP Group, like most rival holding companies, is perfectly willing to acquire a big digital player like AKQA. But with Possible, WPP’s roll up of smaller digital shops, the parent is taking a different Lego-like approach, building a global network brick by brick.

• Video-on-Demand Viewing Is Gaining Popularity

  Brian Stelter And Amy Chozick @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  Although it has been around for years, the technology is catching on among people who want to watch television on their own schedules.

• Helicopters Bring Viewers Vivid Images of Tornado

  New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  Daylight and a hovering helicopter allowed cable news channels to bring startling images of the mile-wide tornado in Oklahoma to viewers on Monday.

• Urban Dictionary Finds a Place in the Courtroom

  Leslie Kaufman @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  Courts are looking to Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced Web site, as one way to define words on which a case may turn.

• Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News

  New York Times - Media Decoder blog - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

  Ms. Turness, a British news executive, will face the same challenges as her counterparts at ABC and CBS as television viewers spend more time online.

• Ken Venturi, Golf Champion and Broadcaster, Dies at 82

  Richard Goldstein @ New York Times - Media Decoder blog - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

  Mr. Venturi won the 1964 United States Open, nearly collapsing from heat exhaustion. He later became a chief golf analyst for CBS Sports, where he worked for 35 years.

• Apple 'tried to find Holy Grail of tax avoidance', US Senate committee claims

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

  Apple tried to find the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance", a US Senate committee has claimed, on the eve of chief executive Tim Cook's appearance to answer questions on the tech giant's offshore businesses.

• Bonnier, Source Interlink Exchange Titles

  Mrondon @ Folio Magazine - 5 hours, 45 minutes ago

  Change continues at Bonnier as the company announced its third major holdings change in the last month, agreeing to acquire nine motorcycle titles from Source Interlink Media.

• Newsquest chief Paul Davidson to retire this year

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 6 hours, 37 minutes ago

  Newsquest, the regional newspaper publisher, has appointed headhunters to replace chairman and chief executive Paul Davidson, who is expected to retire later this year.