Mediagazer: Newyorker.com Hires Business Editor (Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke/The New York …)

2:05 PM ET, July 16, 2013

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC's Lord Patten plans to step down in 2015 — Former cabinet minister, who has been criticised over payoffs, confirms he expects to serve one four-year term as chairman — Lord Patten, the embattled chairman of the BBC Trust, has confirmed he plans to step down from the role in 2015 despite admitting the timing was “not ideal”.

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Guardian:

BBC payments to senior managers rise by more than 60% — Payoffs to departing executives nearly £1.5m, with total remuneration coming to £4.13m in year to end of March — The BBC's remuneration payments to top managers leapt by more than 60% to just over £4m in the year …

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Press Gazette:

BBC spent £5m investigating Savile scandal - including £101k on Helen Boaden's legal costs — The BBC has spent around £5 million investigating the Jimmy Savile sex scandal and its aftermath. — Its annual report and accounts reveal the Pollard Review …

Discussion: Sky News, broadcastnow.co.uk, London News, National Updates, The Drum, itn.co.uk, BBC, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter and Telegraph

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

What KTVU-TV did right after its slip-up — It has been great sport all weekend for media critics to excoriate KTVU-TV in San Francisco. There's no denying that KTVU made a big mistake. But when it sorted the mistakes out, the station did a lot that journalists should replicate.

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Associated Press:

Snowden submits request for asylum in Russia — MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said. — Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer who is a member of the Public Chamber, a Kremlin advisory body …

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Jillian C. York / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Media Continues to Focus on Snowden Rather Than the Information He's Revealed

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Newyorker.com Hires Business Editor — Newyorker.com hired Vauhini Vara to be the site's new business editor and expand the business coverage, editor Nicholas Thompson announced this morning. — “Vauhini is everything we want in a business reporter: she breaks news, files F.O.I.A. requests …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: How Ukraine Wooed Conservative Websites — Passion or payola? A source describes being offered $500 for an article, and a consultant doesn't deny payments. — WASHINGTON — Several conservative bloggers repeated talking points given to them by a proxy group for the Ukrainian government …

Discussion: The Dish

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Mail Online announces plans to open offices in new territories — The site which now has more than 128 million unique users a month will be taking on new staff in existing sites and opening new offices in as yet undisclosed locations — Copyright: By Alex.muller on Wikimedia Commons.

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

Atlantic Media Launches Digital Publication, ‘Defense One’ — The Atlantic Media Company unveiled the latest addition to its digital portfolio Tuesday morning with the launch of Defense One, a web publication dedicated to national security coverage. — Under the direction …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer and Gawker

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

One year after break from Microsoft, NBCNews still finding its footing — It's been a year since NBC took control of one of the web's best known news sites, MSNBC.com. Here's a brief look at how things have unfolded since then. — After 16 years as a media world odd couple, Microsoft and NBC officially parted ways last July.

Discussion: TVNewser

Jessica Lessin:

Exclusive: Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service — Apple has a new trick up its sleeve as it tries to launch a long-awaited television service: technology that allows viewers to skip commercials and that pays media companies for the skipped views. — For more than a year …

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

Guardian publisher loses £31m — Guardian News & Media, the publisher of The Guardian and the Observer, lost more than half a million pounds a week last year despite a round of redundancies in its newsroom. — The Guardian and The Observer are grappling with the shift to digital from print

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The last time Al Jazeera had a big American strategy, it was rejected — On Sunday evening, The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald published an article about Al Jazeera America, the soon-to-launch Manhattan-based cable-news network I wrote about in a freelance web feature for New York magazine last Thursday.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …