Mediagazer: BuzzFeed Makes Its First Acquisition To Tackle A Big Revenue Opportunity (Alyson Shontell/Business Insider)

9:40 AM ET, September 14, 2012

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

USA Today's new design debuts in print today — USA Today's new design debuts today with a front page note from new publisher Larry Kramer, who joined the paper in May. All eyes are on the dot. “USA TODAY's new logo — a large circle in colors corresponding to the sections …

Discussion: The New York Observer, Charles Apple, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @mattmansfield and Garcia Media

Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘USA Today’ Redesigns

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Time Inc.'s CEO Aims to Unify Print and Online Fiefdoms — Time Inc. Chief Executive Officer Laura Lang, hired last year to revive the struggling magazine publisher, is forging a plan to unify its long-sparring online and print fiefdoms. — Lang wants to give customers the ability …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Wall Street Journal removes two Jonah Lehrer essays from archives — Jonah Lehrer “inappropriately reused passages from articles he wrote for the Boston Globe in two essays that he later wrote for the Journal's Review section,” The Wall Street Journal reported in a correction Thursday.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Chicago Tribune combines local editions as Journatic suspension continues — The Chicago Tribune has cut the number of its local editions by “about half” since suspending work with journalism-outsourcing company Journatic, Lynne Marek reports. “For instance, coverage of Evanston formerly appeared …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Romney's Team Turns On The Press — A frustrating week in Boston. “The polls are close, and so the media starts cheering on their guy,” says one adviser. — DULLES, Va. — As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage — with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal, Capital New York, RedState, Forbes and The Daily Dish

Erik Wemple:
Fact-checkers say no to Romney ‘apology’ claims

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Obama-rooting reporters — In these days of media conspiracy …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Study: Smaller news websites depend more on social media for traffic than larger sites — In any local market, the dozens or hundreds of available news websites make up a news ecosystem. — In any real-life nature ecosystem — think of the food chain diagram you learned in 5th grade — the many species develop their own roles.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Street Fight, The Huffington Post and Knight Digital Media Center

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘The Wall Street Journal’ pushes its glossy magazine to monthly (almost) — The Wall Street Journal's glossy luxury title, WSJ., may soon be losing its editor, Deborah Needleman, who—as we reported yesterday—has been offered a job editing rival magazine T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, FishbowlNY and WWD

Reuters:

NYTimes offers lump-sum pay or lower annuity option to ex-staff — (Reuters) - The New York Times Co said it informed some former employees that it will offer pensioners the option to receive a one-time lump sum payment or start a lower monthly annuity now, in a bid to reduce its pension liabilities.

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Arif Durrani / Brand Republic:

News Int's chief unveils ‘groundbreaking’ print to digital ad conversion — News International's chief executive, Tom Mockridge, has revealed The Times, the Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers are preparing to implement a “groundbreaking” automated system that will convert prints ads into digital iterations.

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:

Topless Pictures of Kate Middleton Published in French Magazine — UPDATED: The decision by “Closer” to publish the shots of the royal on vacation sparks a British media storm following the recent debate about naked Prince Harry photos. — LONDON - The decision by a French magazine …

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John Koblin / Deadspin:

Bake-Off At Sports Illustrated! Jon Wertheim, Chris Stone Battle To Take Over Weekly Magazine — Who's in charge at Sports Illustrated? Earlier this summer, longtime editor Terry McDonell told his staff that he was dialing back on some of his responsibilities.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

BuzzFeed Makes Its First Acquisition To Tackle A Big Revenue Opportunity — BuzzFeed has acquired Kingfish Labs, a Facebook-data company, Business Insider has learned. — Kingfish was founded by two former Huffington Post employees, Rob Fishman and Jeff Revesz.

Discussion: Betabeat and TechCrunch

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Washington Post Co. Names SurveyMonkey CEO to Board — Dave Goldberg, the chief executive officer of SurveyMonkey.com LLC and husband of Facebook Inc. executive Sheryl Sandberg, will join Washington Post Co.'s board, giving the company more Silicon Valley experience.

Pamela Erens / Los Angeles Review of Books:

Is The Atlantic Making Us Stupid? — JAMES BENNET WANTS US to have a conversation. The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who took the helm in 2006, has overseen a remarkable rise in the magazine's fortunes and profile. He has turned The Atlantic from a money bleeder into a moneymaker …