Mediagazer: Why E-Mail Newsletters Won't Die (Ryan Tate/Wired)

8:00 AM ET, May 13, 2013

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Matthew Winkler / Bloomberg:

Holding Ourselves Accountable — As I wrote in “The Bloomberg Way,” our guide for reporters and editors, “The appearance of impropriety can be as damaging to a reputation as doing something improper. Because we hold others accountable for disclosure, we expect the same of ourselves.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Quartz, Business Insider, The Times, Media News, Bloomberg and Politico

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping — Reporters at Bloomberg News were trained to use a function on the company's financial data terminals that allowed them to view subscribers' contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage, more than half a dozen former employees said.

Discussion: Quartz, BuzzFeed, New York Times, The Tell, @zseward, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Talking Biz News, DealBook and New York Post

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Seth Meyers to Succeed Fallon on NBC's ‘Late Night’ — Seth Meyers will be the next host of NBC's “Late Night,” the network announced Sunday. — Mr. Meyers, the longtime head writer on “Saturday Night Live” and host of its “Weekend Update” segment, will succeed Jimmy Fallon …

Discussion: Inside TV, USA Today, Broadcasting & Cable, LA Observed, @WaitWhat_TV, Guardian, Gothamist, E! Online, Mashable and Business Insider

Lesley Messer / ABCNEWS:

Barbara Walters Announces 2014 Retirement — The legendary newscaster will leave TV journalism next summer — For decades, Barbara Walters has inspired millions with her groundbreaking interviews — but after 37 years with ABC News, the newscaster is announcing on “The View” …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Life, @barbarajwalters, Deadline.com, The Huffington Post, Digital Spy and New York Magazine

Chris Dannen / Co.Labs:

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories — As web publishers we're obsessed with analytics. Any strategy that moves the needle gets our attention. So you can imagine my surprise when a new way of writing articles blew up my assumptions about how to drive traffic.

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Why E-Mail Newsletters Won't Die — Paul Berry is trying to build the news engine of the future, but, like many online media pioneers, he's finding he just can't escape the grubby format first used more than 40 years ago, e-mail. — Berry's baby, RebelMouse, is state of the art new media …

Discussion: AllThingsD and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@steverubel

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Three Reuters editors reprimanded for not disclosing FBI visit — Three Reuters editors have been reprimanded for failing to tell their superiors that the home of a now-terminated social media employee had been raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Talking Biz News has confirmed from multiple sources.

Discussion: Reuters

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Johnston Press claims operating profit up for the first time in seven years — Johnston Press has seen revenue fall 11.4 per cent in the first four months of the year, compared with the same period in 2012. — In a statement to the stock market this morning, the publishing group …

Discussion: Guardian and Scotsman

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of influentials, from D.C. to Singapore to Raleigh — It's a season of new product launches, but you have to roam around the country and the world to find them. You have to look for the niches they're trying to serve. These launches tell us a lot about the emerging digital news economy …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

How ABC plans to use live streaming and the cloud to challenge Aereo — This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup's home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia.

Discussion: New York Times, Mashable, Variety, Home Media Magazine, Softpedia News, TUAW, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac and App Advice

Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:

StateImpact makes its mark, but won't expand — As NPR exits the ambitious project, director says, “we changed the way reporting is done” — Two years ago, with statehouse bureaus taking huge cuts in a contracting media landscape, National Public Radio designed the StateImpact project …

David Weigel / Slate:

Follow Friday: The Clickbait Destroyer — Last summer, on a slow news day, a social media contractor named Alex Mizrahi got irritated with the Internet. The Huffington Post's main Twitter account—Mizrahi was one of more than two million followers—blasted out a headline asking “Who's the richest celebrity?”