Mediagazer: DOJ To Reporter: We Can Prove You're Wrong, But We Want To Embarrass You, So We'll Wait (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

3:07 AM ET, September 20, 2013

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How Can You Miss Us if We Won't Go Away? — First things first: We're keeping the Steelcase hot-seat red chairs. Forever. In fact, we own quite a few now. — And we'll still be scooping and reviewing all things digital right here, at this Web address, for a few more months.

Discussion: @waltmossberg, @monkbent and @felixsalmon

Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz:

AllThingsD founders are in talks to value their new venture at up to $40 million — Preparing to part ways with News Corp, the founders of All Things Digital are looking for investments to reboot their technology news site and events business under a new name, sources say.

Dow Jones:

Dow Jones confirms split with Mossberg and Swisher, plans to launch new tech conference — Wall Street Journal and All Things D Decide Not To Renew Agreement At The End Of the Year — For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …

Discussion: New York Times, @vrajeshio, @obrien, @suanzes, @edwardroussel, @triciad, @wblau and @tim_stevens

Dan Primack / Fortune:

AllThingsD parting ways with Dow Jones — AllThingsD and The Wall Street Journal call it quits. — FORTUNE — Influential tech site AllThingsD is severing its ties with founding owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS). A formal statement is expected later today.

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

What really happened to ‘Reuters Next’ — On Wednesday Thompson Reuters' new CEO Andrew Rashbass announced the company was canceling the ambitious new digital news product Reuters Next. — Conversations with several Reuters insiders and people with knowledge of the situation show Rashbass …

Discussion: Big News Network.com, @dylanbyers, @kirabind and @jbenton

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Reuters nixes Next: Failed redesigns and the challenge of expanding a digital audience — Reuters' vision of the news service of the future — or at least the consumer-facing part of that vision — will look a little bit more like the present. Wednesday morning, the company announced …

Discussion: @antderosa, FishbowlDC, Talking Biz News, @jbenton, @jayrosen_nyu, @felixsalmon and BuzzFeed

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Reuters Next: Anatomy Of A Multi-Million-Dollar Misfire

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

New York Times Company to Start Paying Dividend — The New York Times Company announced on Thursday that it would pay a dividend to its shareholders for the first time in five years. — After a meeting of its board, the company said the board had voted to approve a dividend of four cents per share …

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Jim Romenesko:

Four Gannett newspapers will get a daily USA Today insert — USA Today publisher Larry Kramer tells his employees that an edition of USA Today will go inside four Gannett papers starting Oct. 6. The papers involved in this pilot project — dubbed the Butterfly — are the Indianapolis Star …

Discussion: Gannett Blog and @romenesko

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Indianapolis Star partners with USA Today to boost national coverage

Discussion: Indianapolis Star, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Gannett Blog

Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:

Entertainment business IPOs started and stalled — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s trademark (MGM) — Call it the summer of the showbiz IPO shakeout. — Over the last several months, a handful of entertainment business companies either took key steps toward or away from initial public stock offerings.

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Russia Today Airs Fake Footage of Rebels Using Sarin Gas in Syria — Russia Today is a self-described “news” channel that happens to be owned and operated by the Russian government, and therefore serves as a reliable outlet for whatever Russian President Vladimir Putin would like you to believe is “news.”

Discussion: Politico, @dylanbyers, Brown Moses Blog and The Huffington Post

PJ Vogt / On The Media:

Upworthy Co-Founder Eli Pariser Explains What Upworthy's Doing and Why it Annoys Me So Much — Last week, Upworthy, the website built for viral progressive political content, secured $8 million in funding. I wrote a piece about how annoying I find it. I compared it to San Francisco …

Discussion: @pjvogt, @1uigi and @onthemedia

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

DOJ To Reporter: We Can Prove You're Wrong, But We Want To Embarrass You, So We'll Wait — Over at Cryptome today there's an absolutely incredible exchange between the Justice Department's Brian Fallon (from the Office of Public Affairs — basically a PR guy) and Brad Heath, an investigative reporter from USA Today.

Discussion: @froomkin, @trevortimm, @cryptomeorg, @cjciaramella, @froomkin, The Huffington Post and @kevharb

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

Microsoft COO: 40 percent of Xbox Live's ‘audience’ are women — Xbox Live video apps. — Oct. 29-30, 2013 — Redwood City, CA — Tickets On Sale Now — People love to watch digital video, and the Xbox 360 is one of the big ways they are doing that.

Discussion: VG247

Reuters:

Analysis: Canadian cable TV's ‘a la carte’ menu begins to take hold — (Reuters) - A transformation in how some Canadian cable TV companies sell channels to consumers might be a sign of things to come in the much bigger U.S. market. — With “a la carte” pricing, cable companies …

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Weinstein Co. Lines Up New Credit Facility — Movie Studio Says Financing Offers Flexibility for Acquisitions — Independent film studio Weinstein Co. is finalizing a credit facility worth around $370 million as it continues deal talks with Miramax, whose owner is seeking to sell or restart production with a partner.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Daily Mail Slapped With $3 Million Libel Lawsuit by Porn Actress — A softcore porn actress is suing Daily Mail's parent company Associated Newspapers Ltd. for $3 million, accusing one of the most-read news sites in the world of putting her photo on an article about an HIV positive adult actress without her permission.

Discussion: Gawker and Courthouse News Service

Erik Nielson / The Atlantic Online:

Did the Decline of Sampling Cause the Decline of Political Hip Hop? — Legal and financial limitations have put a damper on a musical tool that once served as an important way for rappers to connect with musical and social history. — Last week, the electronic artist Clive Tanaka filed …

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Time Promotes Three, Hires 11 Staffers — Nancy Gibbs hasn't been managing editor of Time for long, but she has already made some big moves. Gibbs just sent out a memo announcing three promotions and 11 new hires. Below are the details, followed by Gibbs' full note.

Discussion: The New York Observer and FishbowlDC

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Not all mass shootings are equal in the eyes of the media or the public — We've moved on, apparently. Barely 48 hours after a gunman murdered 12 people and injured six others in another U.S. bloodbath, the national news media had other things on their minds.

Discussion: Chickaboomer, TheBlaze.com and TVNewser

Wall Street Journal:

Nielsen to Add Data for Mobile TV Viewing — Firm Also Will Roll Out Service That Measures TV Tweets — Nielsen has long been a kingmaker in the TV industry. Its ratings data, which tracks viewership of shows, determines how advertisers shell out some $66 billion annually.

Discussion: Variety, The Verge, Deadline.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, @elanazak, CNET, @vranicawsj and Betabeat

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing.com:

Quartz to reach profitability by 2015 with native ads and open web focus — Atlantic Media Company, Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media, Newspapers — Business news site Quartz is on course to reach profitability in 2015, three years after its launch by The Atlantic Media Company.

Discussion: @felixsalmon, Poynter and @dskok, Thanks:@mediabrief

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Marlene Sanchez Dooner Joins Hispanic Enterprise Unit at NBCUniversal — Marlene Sanchez Dooner has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vp, Hispanic Enterprises & Content (HEC) at NBCUniversal, the company announced Thursday. Dooner, who is currently senior vp investor relations …

Discussion: TVNewser and Variety