Media Roundup: Google-Yahoo Ad Deal a Bust, YouTube to Offer Feature Films, and More

Department of Justice says no to Google-Yahoo ad search deal -- Google withdrew its proposal after the DoJ said it would file an antitrust lawsuit if the collaboration between the two search giants went forward. The arrangement would have "denied consumers the benefits of competition," the DoJ said. [Source: Wired]
Obama's win gives a boost to print publications -- For newspapers and magazines that have watched circulation dwindle, it was a beautiful, if brief, testament to print's enduring value: The historic election of Barack Obama had memento-seekers snapping up any and all print media with the president-elect on the cover.
[Source: New York Times]
U.S. News and World Report goes monthly -- The long-standing weekly newsmagazine has abandoned its plan to go biweekly, moving instead to monthly publication. Will Time and Newsweek follow?
[Sources: New York Times, Folio]
YouTube to offer feature films -- Google is negotiating with movie studios to bring full-length features to YouTube. Deals are still being hammered out, but insiders say we can expect to see ad-supported streaming movies on the site in three months or less.
[Source: CNET]

The New Yorker and the future of magazines -- Who'd have thought the grand olde New Yorker would be one of the first magazines to experiment with online offerings? Subscribers can not only get the complete issue online as well as in print, but they have full access to the magazine's archives going back to 1925.
[Sources: Paid Content via MediaBistro]