Mediagazer: Business Insider Gives Advertiser Veto Power Over ‘Future of Business’ Edit Mix (Michael Sebastian/AdAge)

3:30 AM ET, July 29, 2013

Top News:

Bloomberg Media Recruits a New Chief From the Atlantic — Justin B. Smith, whose digital strategy swiftly transformed The Atlantic, one of the statelier media vessels around, is about to get a bigger boat. — On Monday, Bloomberg will announce that Mr. Smith, the president of Atlantic Media …

Discussion: AllThingsD, JIMROMENESKO.COM, GigaOM, The Huffington Post, @justin_b_smith, Trust But Verify, @jeffjohnroberts and New York Magazine

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Cumulus planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity — In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Mediaite, @passantino and Deadline.com

Bloomberg:

Publicis to Merge With Omnicom as Biggest Advertising Company — Publicis Groupe SA (PUB) and Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) agreed to merge in an all-stock deal to create the world's largest advertising company, toppling market leader WPP Plc. (WPP) — Shareholders of Paris-based Publicis …

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Independent & others published fake Jenny McCarthy quote — Attention journalists, Jenny McCarthy never said this: … She's responsible for many objectionable and false claims about autism, but the above isn't one of them.

Discussion: @davidfolkenflik, The Superficial and @dangillmor

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

A Blow for the Press, and for Democracy — SOMETIMES James Risen feels like Jean Valjean, the beleaguered protagonist of “Les Miserables,” hounded for years by the authorities. — “They just keep coming at me,” Mr. Risen, a Times reporter in Washington, told me by phone last week.

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Business Insider Gives Advertiser Veto Power Over ‘Future of Business’ Edit Mix — To Start, Newsroom Stories in Sponsored Section Won't Include Competitors of SAP — When Business Insider introduced a sponsored section last November called “The Future of Business,” it promised to give …

Graham Bowley / New York Times:

An Afghan Media Mogul, Pushing Boundaries — AT the inaugural championship of the new Afghan premier soccer league in Kabul last October, Saad Mohseni stood on the well-groomed sideline wearing a Western blazer and a toothy smile that said, “Yes, you had better believe it.”

Discussion: @mlcalderone

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

NBC to Emphasize Live Events in Lineup — NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt Addresses Challenges Facing Broadcast Television — By - KEACH HAGEY - — NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt was frank about the network's failures last season in addressing a press tour Saturday …

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

Reuters's global warming about-face — A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic” — Reuters has long been one of the most prolific producers of climate change journalism, leading The New York Times and the Guardian for most climate-centric articles in 2011.

Discussion: Guardian

Dylan Byers / Politico:

The bigger Col Allan story — As I noted this morning, New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan has been bumped from Manhattan to Sydney (temporarily, maybe), where he will lend “extra editorial leadership” to News Corp's Australian papers. The immediate significance of the move for those on the inside …

Discussion: @tmcgev

Economist:

British newspapers are becoming more American — NEWS sells newspapers. The arrival of the royal baby will provide a small bundle of joy to proprietors and the newsagents who hawk their products this week. But the bigger picture is of steady decline, not birth.

Discussion: Mashable

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Al Jazeera America Promises To Stand Out In Cable News Market, But Concerns Loom — NEW YORK — Kate O'Brian, a 30-year ABC News veteran named president of Al Jazeera America this week, says the soon-to-be-launched network will stand out in today's cable news landscape.