Mediagazer: Media General 1Q Rev About Flat At $74M (TVNewsCheck)

12:00 PM ET, April 24, 2013

Top News:

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Turbulence at The Times — One Monday morning in April, Jill Abramson called Dean Baquet into her office to complain. The executive editor of The New York Times was upset about the paper's recent news coverage — she felt it wasn't “buzzy” enough, a source there said — and placed blame on Baquet, her managing editor.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Politico's ‘turbulence’ story about New York Times' Jill Abramson: All wind — Dylan Byers' big “Turbulence at The Times” story, about the news organization under Executive Editor Jill Abramson's leadership, has the look and feel of world-beating Politico scoop.

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

AP returns to Twitter after hack — but where are its 2 million followers? — The Associated Press is back on Twitter after yesterday's hacking incident, which roiled financial markets with a fake tweet about explosions at the White House. But something is still amiss …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Guardian, WebProNews and Quartz

Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution — Twitter has a working two-step security solution undergoing internal testing before incrementally rolling it out to users, something it hopes to begin doing shortly, Wired has learned. — Such a system will drastically reduce the risk of Twitter users having …

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Editors Weblog:

USA Today encourages journalists to pepper reporting with personality — Forget journalistic objectivity, USA Today told its editorial team. The newspaper is asking reporters to pepper their writing with personality and offer unique perspectives to news, Publisher Larry Kramer said.

George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Royal Correspondent at ‘The Sun’ to Be Charged in U.K. Bribery Probe — The journalist at the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. allegedly paid more than $35,000 for news stories from a royal military training academy. — LONDON - The chief royal correspondent of The Sun tabloid …

Discussion: PressGazette, Guardian, Bloomberg, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Associated Press and BBC

Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Report confirms News of the World hackers were let off the hook for years

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Storify launches paid-for option aimed at journalists — Journalists will be guaranteed ad-free Storify stories for £5.30 a month — Storify has made another move in moving towards a freemium model. — Late yesterday the team behind the tool, which has become a favourite …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT changes style slightly on ‘illegal immigrant’ — The New York Times has “come up with more detailed and nuanced stylebook guidelines” on the use of the term “illegal immigrant,” Associate Managing Editor for Standards Philip Corbett tells Poynter in an emailed statement.

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James Surowiecki / The New Yorker:

The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt — After Reddit's attempt to find the Boston Marathon bombers turned into a major failure (for which Reddit's general manager Erik Martin publicly apologized Monday), the over-all conclusion seems to be that the whole experiment was misguided from the start …

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Marc Tracy / New Republic:

The New ESPN Ombudsman Is One of Its Fiercest Critics — Robert Lipsyte talks about working inside the belly of the beast — In the same way that, as poet Philip Larkin put it, “Sexual intercourse began in 1963,” Robert Lipsyte invented cynicism about the world of sports.

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TVNewsCheck:

Media General 1Q Rev About Flat At $74M — However, a large drop in political money was mostly offset by a 55% increase in retrans fees and an 18% gain in digital revenue. — Media General Inc. today reported that first-quarter 2013 revenue was $73.9 million, down slightly from $74.2 million last year.

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Editors Weblog:

‘A la carte’ journalism presents alternative to paywalls — With even The Mail Online now implementing paid content, a turning point for paywalls seems imminent. But an emerging alternative, “a la carte journalism,” allows readers pay per article, rather than subscribing to whole publications.