By Ruth Brown 
From: http://www.newser.com/story/166589/koch-bros-look-to-buy-8-newspapers.html
Tag Archives: Tribune Company
Brightcove Announces Speaker Lineup for PLAY 2013 Global Customer Conference
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Brightcove Announces Speaker Lineup for PLAY 2013 Global Customer Conference
Exciting lineup features speakers from Cisco Systems, Condé Nast Entertainment, Content Marketing Institute, Gannett Digital, IBM, Joyce Meyer Ministries, MRM Worldwide, Oracle, Rogers Digital Media, Showtime and Tribune Company
30+ breakout sessions across three tracks focused on online video best practices and hands-on training
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Brightcove (NAS: BCOV) , a leading global provider of cloud content services, today announced the first wave of industry influencers and digital media innovators who will participate in Brightcove PLAY 2013, the company’s third annual global customer conference, which is set for May 13 – 15 at the InterContinental Boston hotel. The agenda for the action-packed three day event features speakers from Brightcove customers and partners, including representatives from Cisco Systems, Condé Nast Entertainment, Content Marketing Institute, Gannett Digital, IBM, Joyce Meyer Ministries, MRM Worldwide, Oracle, Rogers Digital Media, Showtime, Tribune Company, and more.
“We have assembled a powerful lineup of customers, partners, and industry thought leaders to share their best practices and expertise with PLAY attendees,” said David Mendels, president, chief operating officer and chief executive officer-designate at Brightcove. “The most rewarding aspect of the event is the knowledge sharing that takes place across digital media and digital marketing experts across a variety of organizations and use cases. This is crucial in driving our industry forward and in helping to shape the future of innovation at Brightcove.”
The company also announced an exciting lineup of breakout sessions across three tracks — Strategy, User and Training — designed to fit the needs of attendees of all levels and backgrounds. Strategy sessions will dig into the themes and challenges facing digital media and digital marketing executives today, while User sessions will share best practices for day-to-day users of Brightcove solutions. The Training track provides a “how to” deep dive on topics ranging from live streaming and using Brightcove’s APIs, to mobile apps, encoding in the cloud and Facebook video.
PLAY 2013 sessions include:
- Video Publishing Strategies to Grow Your Audience
- Advanced Monetization: Advertising, Paywalls & Subscription Services
- Connected TV Apps, OTT Devices & …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Cyber crime punishment questioned by Internet advocacy group
Digital rights activists are using a recent security breach involving the secretive group Anonymous as an opportunity to rail against a federal anti-hacking law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation isn’t defending the alleged actions of Matthew Keys, a former Tribune Company employee who could face as much as 25 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website.
But the San Francisco-based advocacy group says current law means cyber crimes are often prosecuted much more severely than crimes of violence.
The EFF likens Keys’ case to the Justice Department’s prosecution of political activist and Internet innovator Aaron Swartz, in which he faced a maximumsentence of 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Swartz committed suicide in January.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
…read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
Ex-Tribune staffer accused of conspiring in Anonymous hack
A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 25 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website.
Matthew Keys, who according to his LinkedIn and Twitter profiles is deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information, transmitting information and attempting to transmit information to damage a protected computer, according to a federal indictment filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
If convicted, Keys could face 25 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 for each count, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
Keys was previously employed as a Web producer for the Sacramento-based television station KTXL Fox 40, which is owned by Tribune. He was terminated in October 2010, and in December 2010 he gave Anonymous members log-in credentials for a computer server belonging to Tribune, and encouraged them to disrupt the website, the DOJ said.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
…read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
Former Tribune staffer accused of conspiring in Anonymous hack
A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 10 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Computerworld Latest
Koch Brothers Vs. Rupert Murdoch: The Fight For Tribune Newspapers Is On
This could get very ugly, very fast. The Koch brothers are reportedly considering a bid for the Tribune Company newspapers — focusing on the crown jewels of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, or at least what jewels of power are left in the flailing newspaper industry — but they may face stiff competition in the form of a debt-free, full pocketed media power player named Rupert Murdoch.
L.A. Weekly’s Hillel Aron reports “multiple sources” claiming Charles and David Koch will offer to buy the Tribune Co. slate of papers — including the Times, the Trib, the Baltimore Sun, and five other papers — or maybe just offer to buy all of Tribune Co. outright. If the notoriously free-spending political heavyweights and brothers in industry choose to go for the whole company — and, importantly, if their offer is taken seriously and ends up bailing out the papers — their purchase would also include 20 television stations along with the eight papers. The Tribune Co. emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2012 and has been looking to unload their newspaper holdings, apparently as part of a single-package deal, according to Bloomberg’s Edmund Lee. Any buyer interested in Tribune’s Co.’s newspapers will have to cough up a cool $600 million to acquire the whole lot — not exactly a lot to the Koch brothers, who spent untold hundreds of millions on the 2012 election… and weren’t too pleased with their return on investment.
What makes the L.A. Weekly report all the more exciting — if a little far fetched — is the looming giant in the wings: Murdoch has been eyeing the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune for months now. It’s been reported that Murdoch “covets” the Times as a potential addition to his empire of more than 175 newspapers. There were reports of his interest as far back as last June. Then there were dueling reports of Murdochian interest in the Times, in particular, in October: one from the Times itself, and another from Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. This was described by Daily Intel’s Joe Coscarelli as “media mogul equivalent of flirting.” In December, Murdoch was planning “to take a close look at Tribune Co.’s newspaper assets once they’re available,” Bloomberg’s Lee reported.
Read More at The Atlantic . By Connor Simpson.
Photo credit: World Economic Forum (Creative Commons)
Tribune Emerges from Bankruptcy, Will Likely Be a Smaller Company in 2013
By Andrea Murphy, Forbes Staff Chicago Tribune building (Photo credit: Wikipedia) After four long years, the Tribune Company announced on December 31, that it had completed its restructuring process. The company also closed on a $1.1 billion senior secured term loan and a $300 million asset based revolving credit facility. In a statement Eddy Hartenstein, Tribune’s […]
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest