Mediagazer: Conrad Black Getting Own TV Talk Show in Canada (Etan Vlessing/Hollywood Reporter)

8:55 AM ET, January 29, 2013

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

After Staff Reductions, New Appointments at The Times — 9:06 p.m. | Updated The New York Times announced on Monday a restructured masthead and some significant newsroom appointments, while also saying that the staff reductions the company was seeking had been accomplished primarily through voluntary buyouts.

Discussion: Politico and Talking Biz News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jill Abramson to staff: ‘We had to layoff far fewer people than we anticipated’ — New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson tells staffers the paper's most recent round of buyouts limited layoffs: “In the end, we had to layoff far fewer people than we anticipated, having achieved …

Discussion: @rajunarisetti

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Nick Denton Is Resurrecting Valleywag — Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog Gawker killed off in 2009, is making a comeback. — Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, says he'll be bringing the site back to life, and he's currently hunting for an editor or two to run it.

Discussion: @mattbuchanan, @brooke, @stevekovach, @grobertson, PandoDaily and @megan

Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire: What Old Valleywags Think About the New Valleywag

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Sir Harold Evans: Murdoch should sell The Times rather than merge it with the Sunday — Sir Harold Evans suggested that Rupert Murdoch should sell The Times rather than merge it with its Sunday stablemate. — In December Times editor James Harding resigned saying: “It has been clear …

Discussion: Guardian

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Sir Harold Evans accuses press of cynicism over Leveson report

Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:

Four reasons why U.K. cartoon of Netanyahu isn't anti-Semitic in any way — A cartoon that appeared in this London's Sunday Times this week depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with blood-red colored cement, trapping in between the bricks Palestinian-looking figures …

Discussion: New York Times

Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Murdoch apologises for ‘offensive’ Scarfe cartoon in Sunday Times denounced as anti-Semitic

Discussion: @michaelwolffnyc, Deadline.com, Telegraph, The Atlantic Wire, Politico, Associated Press and Yahoo! Movies

David Carr / New York Times:

“South Park” Creators Fortify Their Content Empire — When it comes to success stories in the entertainment world, it doesn't get much better than the one about a pair of regular guys from Colorado, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who took cutout paper dolls, animated them and triumphed on cable television …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The New York Observer, Splitsider and The Corsair

The Huffington Post:

CNN Reportedly Making Huge Morning Shakeup — ABC's Chris Cuomo is headed to CNN, multiple outlets reported Monday night. — The news spread from TMZ to Deadline to the New York Post, and everywhere, the details were roughly the same: new head honcho Jeff Zucker apparently wants Cuomo to host a new morning show for CNN.

Discussion: TMZ.com, Deadline.com and TVNewser

Martin Belam / GigaOM:

How Facebook comments affect trolling for news websites — Whether news sites should or shouldn't use the Facebook comment plug-in or Facebook identity seems to have been a recurring theme in the last few days. — The Nieman Journalism Lab called it a “movement”, which seems quite …

Discussion: Poynter and Journalism.co.uk

Press Gazette:

Met makes 20th arrest in computer hacking probe — A 52-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating computer hacking linked to business espionage, Scotland Yard said today. — The man was held at around 7am at his home in Oxfordshire on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.

Discussion: ITV News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Starting salary for j-school grads rises to $41K, on average — NACE's annual report on college grads has good news for 2012 communications majors: Their starting salaries were up 4 percent on average over 2011 grads'. Reached by email, NACE Employment Information Manager Andrea Koncz …

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Ends 2012 With A Solid Q4: $1.22 Billion Ex-TAC Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS 32 Cents — Yahoo today released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the end of a key year for the long-running web portal. — Q4 2012 was Yahoo's second full quarter with Marissa Mayer …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Marketing Pilgrim, AllThingsD, MarketBeat, The Wrap, Bloomberg, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Forbes

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

German rights holders sue YouTube in escalating royalty fight — German music rights group GEMA has filed a lawsuit against YouTube, alleging that the video site is misleading users about the details of an ongoing licensing dispute between the two parties. The lawsuit is the latest escalation …

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Print Media Bastion May Be Giving Way — MUNICH — Long after newspaper audiences started defecting to the Internet in other Western countries, Germany still looks like a bastion of print. — On any train, plane or bus, readers unfurl broadsheets that still do justice to the word, thick with advertising.

Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable!:

Billboard's Website Redesign Makes Music Charts Playable — Billboard this week gave a facelift to its magazine, launched an iPad app and refreshed its business-focused Billboard.biz. What's more, the music brand unveiled a revamped Billboard.com. — The new Billboard.com …

Wall Street Journal:

Media Firms Probed on Data Release — Investigators Examined if Economic Figures Were Given Early to Clients; No Criminal Charges Seen — WASHINGTON—Law-enforcement authorities have conducted a wide-ranging investigation into whether media companies facilitated insider trading on Wall Street …

Discussion: @spenchey and @daschles

Emily Greenhouse / The New Yorker:

Twitter's Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate — On October 19, 2012, Twitter turned censor. In response to complaints from the Union of French Jewish Students, Twitter pulled tweets that used the hashtag #UnBonJuif, or “a good Jew,” which had been worked into slurs and jokes, some using concentration-camp photographs as illustrations.

Discussion: Daily Dot and Business Insider

Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:

The Price of Palin: $15 per Word Spoken During FOX Contract — Sarah Palin uttered more than 189,000 words over 150 appearances on various FOX broadcasts during her three years as an analyst at the network, or $15.85 per word — With the three-year contract now expired between FOX News and Sarah Palin …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Chickaboomer, msnbc.com, Change of Subject, Mediaite, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post and The Wrap

Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:

How Two Newspapers Wound Up Staging The Same Sob Story About The Ray Lewis Murder Case — Richard Lollar was one of two men killed in the 2000 Super Bowl week stabbing outside an Atlanta nightclub that led to Ray Lewis's pleading guilty to obstruction of justice.

Discussion: Poynter

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

Conrad Black Getting Own TV Talk Show in Canada — The fallen media baron is to co-host a talker produced by Moses Znaimer's ZoomerMedia and shopped to international buyers at NAPTE Miami. — TORONTO - It turns out those combative British TV news interviews last fall by fallen Canadian media mogul Conrad Black were just a warm-up.

Discussion: Guardian

Jim Romenesko:

Ben Yagoda claims The New Republic ‘borrowed’ from his ‘lady resurgence’ piece — From BEN YAGODA: The new-look New Republic may be cool and rich and everything, but the extent to which its piece (posted yesterday) about the resurgence of the word “lady” borrowed (that is the polite word) …

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