Mediagazer: Nate Silver's Blog to Be Its Own ESPN Franchise (Sara Morrison/The Wrap)

5:25 PM ET, July 22, 2013

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times — Why did Nate Silver decide to leave The New York Times and accept an offer from ESPN? — That's the cause of great speculation in media circles at the moment. As has been noted elsewhere, there's no question that The Times …

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Nate Silver's Blog to Be Its Own ESPN Franchise — Renowed statisician hiring his own team of journalists and editors for “Grandland"-like standalone franchise — Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog will become its own franchise at ESPN, with its own team of journalists, editors and analysts …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Guardian, TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, @lucas_shaw, @alexweprin and Variety

Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:

Al Jazeera America Names ABC News' Kate O'Brian President — Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director for international operations, has been named as an interim CEO of the forthcoming channel. — A month ahead of Al Jazeera America's planned launch, the forthcoming international news channel is finally lining up its top executives.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Guardian, New York Times, Mediaite, ABC News, The Wrap, @dylanbyers, @jamesrbuk, @nycjim and @jayrosen_nyu

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

David Shuster Joining Al Jazeera America: Source — NEW YORK — David Shuster, a veteran of MSNBC and Fox News, is joining Al Jazeera America as an anchor, according a source familiar with the deal. — Shuster is the latest high-profile journalist to land at Al Jazeera America, which is expected to launch Aug. 20.

Discussion: TVNewser, Variety, The Wrap, New York Magazine and Capital New York

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Aereo will launch in Utah on August 19 — Aereo, the service that lets users watch live TV online and on mobile devices and save shows to a personal DVR, will launch in Utah on August 19, the company announced Monday. — Aereo is already available in New York, Boston and Atlanta.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Home Media Magazine, Salt Lake Tribune, Radio & Television …, TechCrunch, The Wrap, VentureBeat, Hillicon Valley and Broadcasting & Cable

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Aereo as Bargaining Chip in Broadcast Fees Battle

Discussion: Radio & Television …, The Verge, TechSpot, CNET and @rakeshlobster

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company — According to sources, Yahoo's media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the company in recent months.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, @cnbc, @bmorrissey, @tcarmody, @mat and Tech Trader Daily

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Circulation revenue up 11 percent at Gannett — Domestic circulation revenue in Gannett's publishing division rose 11 percent in the second quarter, the company announced in its second-quarter earnings report Monday. That gain, as well as gains in the company's broadcasting and digital businesses …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable, NetNewsCheck Latest, Globe and Mail and Thomson IR

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Netflix Q2 2013 earnings show solid growth in revenue, a bit light on subscribers — Netflix said today that the web's top video-rental service generated revenue of $ 1.07 billion, and added 630,000 new domestic streaming subscribers during the company's second quarter.

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, @sandonet, @peterlauria3, @tcarmody, @andrewphelps, @tcarmody and Yahoo! News

Wall Street Journal:
Earnings Calls Take On Whiff of Show Biz

Discussion: MoneyBeat and @financial_team

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Warner Names Joseph Ripp CEO of Time Inc. — Resolves One Area of Uncertainty as New State of Flux Begins — Time Warner has named Joseph Ripp the next CEO of Time Inc., resolving one big question as the publishing unit prepares to strike out on its own but surprising observers who had bet on another candidate.

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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Future shuts iPad magazine tech. after seven months: what now for tablet publishing? — Future has closed weekly iPad magazine Tech. seven months after its launch, raising questions over the viability of original magazines designed for tablet devices, TheMediaBriefing can reveal.

Discussion: Talking New Media

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post to launch new tech blog — Timothy B. Lee will lead the blog, which is to be called The Switch. Brian Fung and Andrea Peterson will join as reporters. The blog appears to be modeled a bit on Wonkbook, which Lee joined recently. Tech reporters Hayley Tsukayama, Cecilia Kang and Craig Timberg will also contribute.

Discussion: Washington Post, FishbowlDC and @binarybits

Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:

More Print Rollbacks Possible At Digital First — Digital First Media, which recently rolled back the print schedule at its Oneida (N.Y.) Daily Dispatch and will do the same at The (Hanover, Pa.) Evening Sun, may be planning more print cutbacks at its other newspapers, according to CEO John Paton.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Forget second-screen apps. Today, the TV is the second screen — Recently I had a great discussion with a friend of mine from Germany, who told me that TV networks over there are slow to embrace the future of television. Some of that has to do with local regulations and the difficulty …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals