Mediagazer: Publisher of the Deal Magazine Close to a Sale (Wall Street Journal)

4:10 AM ET, September 12, 2012

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Media Decoder, Deadline.com, The Daily Caller, Softpedia News, Daily Download, Mediaite, Gawker, The Huffington Post and Politico

Poynter:
9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The NYT doesn't need one public editor, it needs a hundred

Discussion: @bydanielvictor and The Atlantic Online, Thanks:@mathewi

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:
New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract

Discussion: nyguild.org and The Huffington Post

MG Siegler:

“The Math” — Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Ryan Lawler led a media panel. On it, sat Alison Moore, HBO's Senior Vice President of Digital Platforms. Naturally, the topic of selling HBO direct-to-consumers via HBO Go came up. “Here's the thing: it's math.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Citing “The Math,” HBO's Alison Moore Says There Are Still No Plans For Standalone HBO GO In The U.S. — Those lucky folks in the Nordics just recently got access to an on-demand, over-the-top HBO service that bears more than a passing resemblance to HBO GO, but we here in the States haven't been quite as fortunate.

Discussion: The Wrap

Douglas Brinkley / Vanity Fair:

Joe Scarborough to Test the Waters for a 2016 Presidential Run — By Douglas Brinkley Photograph by Mark Seliger — Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, photographed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City. — Five years ago this month, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski began co …

Discussion: Mediaite and TVNewser

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Scarborough: ‘I have no plans to run in 2016’ — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says he has no plans to run in 2016, despite a report in Vanity Fair that suggests otherwise. — “I have no plans to run in 2016,” Scarborough told POLITICO today, following a report by Douglas Brinkley stating …

Discussion: @dylanbyers and Mediaite

Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:

A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Media Decoder, @nytfridge, @dangillmor, kottke.org, Alabama Public Radio and Poynter

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Michael Lewis, Granted Unprecedented Access To Obama, Agrees To Quote Approval

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another exit at the ‘Observer’: News editor Megan McCarthy — Three New York Observer staffers announced their departures from the salmon-tinted weekly last week. — This week, there's another: news editor Megan McCarthy is out. Her last day will be sometime this week.

Discussion: @megan, FishbowlNY, @sarahw, @cschweitz and Politico

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

For Paton, Bankruptcy for Journal Register Is ‘Embarrassing’ but Necessary — The last few days have provided a lesson in humility, John Paton acknowledged. — Mr. Paton, the chief executive of the management company Digital First Media Group, had his subsidiary, the Journal Register Company …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and NetNewsCheck Latest

Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:

Twitter Told to Produce Protestor's Posts or Face Fine — Twitter Inc. has to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester's posts or face a fine, a judge ruled, giving the company three days to show it isn't in contempt of court. — New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew …

Discussion: ZDNet, CNET, ReadWriteWeb, Wired, Business Insider, Techdirt, New York Magazine, Betabeat, AllThingsD and Gothamist, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Wall Street Journal:

Publisher of the Deal Magazine Close to a Sale — The publisher of The Deal, a magazine devoted to covering mergers, financings and other transactions, is close to being sold, people familiar with the matter said. — TheStreet Inc. and Dow Jones & Co., a unit of News Corp. …

Discussion: @rafat and Talking Biz News

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Tumblr Feeling the Heat: New York Web Giant Under Pressure To Build A Business — David Karp is starting to feel pressure from investors to turn his giant social blogging platform, Tumblr, into a business, sources say. — The venture capitalists, particularly Sequoia Capital …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

The Identity of Ruth Bourdain: Not Who New York Thinks It Is — The long-running mystery of who's behind the Twitter parody known as Ruth Bourdain—an amalgamation of the now-defunct Gourmet magazine's longtime editor Ruth Reichl and author/television personality Anthony Bourdain— received another jolt this week.

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Armando Iannucci calls on BBC to fight back against critics — Thick Of It creator said British television suffered from ‘consistent cack-handed interference by politicians goaded by the press’ — The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci has called on the BBC to fight back against its critics in parliament and the press.

Discussion: BBC and Guardian