Mediagazer: Maxim Magazine Sold, With Plans to Create TV Channel (William Launder/Wall Street Journal)

10:50 PM ET, September 12, 2013

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Media shield act moves on to the full Senate — A Senate panel on Thursday backed legislation that would offer protections to a broad variety of journalists who do not want to divulge their confidential sources of information. — The key point of debate over the bill …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Shield law broadens definition of ‘journalist’ — UPDATE (12:20 p.m.): This bill and the amendment passed 13-to-5 in committee. — A new media shield law expected to pass committee on Thursday broadens the definition of “journalist” to include, among other things, any individual deemed appropriate by a federal judge.

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers — There have been debates on a setting up a special journalist shield law for many years, and every time it comes up it leads to something problematic, as various supporters suddenly want to narrowly define …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, @metalchris and @poormansmedia

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Story Behind the Putin Op-Ed Article in The Times — A Times reader, Lawrence DeVine, has a few questions about The Times's publication of an Op-Ed article in Thursday's paper by Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia. He asks: “Did he call up the editorial page editor and say …

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Collected Op-Eds of Vladimir Putin

Discussion: USA Today, The Atlantic Wire and @liamstack

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

IAC Said to Be Considering Daily Beast Sale After Brown's Exit — IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller is considering selling the Daily Beast following the departure of Tina Brown, who helped start the news website in 2008, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

Discussion: Poynter, The Awl, New York Magazine, @jayrosen_nyu, @erikwemple and @jeffjarvis

Michael Wolff / Guardian:
No longer the talk of the town, Tina Brown bids farewell to Diller's Beast

Discussion: USA Today, paidContent, @carr2n, @moorehn, Columbia Journalism Review, Journalism News and BuzzFeed

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Daily Beast's fate to be decided by ‘first week in October’

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, The Wrap, @joepompeo and FishbowlNY

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Twitter makes IPO plans official: files confidential S-1, but expected value is about $14B — Twitter has announced its long-awaited IPO in, what else, a tweet that came after market closed on Thursday: … Twitter's note that this is a confidential filing means the company's annual revenue is less than $1 billion.

Ben Popper / The Verge:
Twitter files for “confidential” IPO, suggesting its annual revenue is less than $1B

Discussion: GigaOM, Forbes, CNET, Betabeat, Digits, ABC, Mercury News, MoneyBeat, @dannysullivan, @joshuatopolsky and NPR

Capital New York:

Rick Stengel to leave ‘Time’ for U.S. State Department — Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time magazine for the past seven years, is planning to step down as managing editor for a new job at the U.S. Department of State, sources familiar with the situation tell Capital New York and POLITICO.

Discussion: Reuters, AdAge, New York Times, @mlcalderone, @mikenizza, @ethanklapper, @aburnspolitico, @thestalwart, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Salt Lake Tribune:

Trib changes leadership, reduces staff by nearly 20 percent — Salt Lake Tribune Editor Nancy Conway, a passionate advocate for open records and government accountability, announced Thursday to the newsroom staff that Publisher William Dean Singleton is stepping down and that she and Editorial …

Discussion: @hunterschwarz, @jjsportsbeat, @gwarchol and @kylegoon

Josh Dickey / The Wrap:

Judge Rejects FilmOn X's Plea to Keep Rebroadcasting Local TV During Appeal — The Washington district court judge who shut down FilmOn X's ability to transmit local TV stations online has rejected its emergency petition to keep doing business while they appeal.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Variety

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

BuzzFeed puts in new policies for “community” posts: an uneasy attempt at control — Political and activist groups are using BuzzFeed's self-publishing tools to promote controversial messages. On Wednesday, the site put out new policies and guidelines to govern “community” submissions.

Discussion: PandoDaily, @craigsilverman, @buzzfeedben, BuzzFeed and eMedia Vitals

Reuters:

At Sina Weibo's censorship hub, China's Little Brothers cleanse online chatter — (Reuters) - In a modern office building on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Tianjin, rows of censors stare at computer screens. Their mission: delete any post on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, deemed offensive or politically unacceptable.

Discussion: @bbccollege, @greatfirechina, The Verge and The Next Web

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Maxim Magazine Sold, With Plans to Create TV Channel — Calvin Darden Buys Publication, Aims to Create Media Franchise — The owners of Maxim Magazine have agreed to sell the men's magazine to a media group led by Calvin Darden, in a deal aimed at expanding the men's lifestyle brand to cable television and to music production.

Discussion: AdAge

Stephanie Yang / TechCrunch:

Mobile News App Circa Launches Its Web Platform For Browsing And Following Stories — Circa, a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its online platform for following and sharing news. While the website doesn't have the full functionality …

Discussion: BestTechie, @antderosa and @circa

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents — Wednesday's Fresh Air on NPR was devoted entirely to a wonderful interview with Barton Gellman, one of the three reporters (along with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald) …

Discussion: National Security, @bobcesca_go, @jayrosen_nyu, @bartongellman, @ggreenwald and Boing Boing

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

How NowThis News handles multi-platform corrections — Not long after the Newtown shootings last December, Ed O'Keefe was in the NowThis News newsroom when a Facebook profile some claimed to be the shooter's circulated on social media and via some news organizations.

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Verified Twitter users are getting new ways to better manage their Connect feed — Twitter is rolling out a new feature for verified users that it hopes will help improve the experience of reading through who contacts you publicly through the service. As part of the move …

Discussion: @harrisj

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

Carson Daly Joins ‘Today’ Show as Host of Digital Studio — Transition plans for ‘Last Call’ to be announced — Carson Daly is adding to his list of jobs at NBC, with the network announcing on Thursday that he would join NBC News' Today show as host of the Orange Room …

Discussion: TODAY.com, TVNewser, Variety, NewscastStudio, USA Today, Associated Press, Hollywood Reporter and Gawker

Geoffrey King / Mediashift:

Why the NSA Hack Compromises Al Jazeera Sources, U.S. Credibility — The German magazine Der Spiegel reported last week that the U.S. National Security Agency hacked into the internal communication system of Al Jazeera. If the report is accurate, the targeted hacking of a news organization represents …

Discussion: Variety, Committee to Protect … and @jcstearns

Nick Turner / Bloomberg:

Newsweek's New Owners Name Reuters's Impoco as Editor-in-Chief — IBT Media, the online-news company that acquired Newsweek from IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) last month, named Thomson Reuters Corp.'s Jim Impoco as the magazine's editor-in-chief. — Impoco joins Newsweek after spending four years …

Discussion: PR Newswire, Mediaite, @johnmcquaid, @joepompeo, @johnmcquaid and @hennesseyedit

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Alerts regains RSS delivery option it lost after Google Reader's demise — Google has quietly added back a Feed delivery option to its Google Alerts service. The return of the feature means you can once again receive alerts for Web search results via RSS, rather than just email.

Discussion: Softpedia News and Search Engine Land

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Three religion reporters leave dailies, but the job isn't vanishing — St. Louis Post-Dispatch religion reporter Tim Townsend is leaving the paper for the Pew Research Center. He's the third religion reporter at a daily to leave in recent weeks: Ann Rodgers is leaving the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …

Jim Romenesko:

MSN reportedly eliminates freelance budget, begins layoffs — [UPDATED] MSN.com says its freelance budget ‘has gone away entirely’ — MSN.com has said farewell to its daily bloggers, columnists and features writers. Its freelance budget “is at $0 for the remainder of the fiscal year.”

Discussion: @romenesko, Hollywood Reporter and Seattle Times blogs