Mediagazer: Disaster news coverage will be much better in a few years (Steve Outing/Media Disruptus)

9:10 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.

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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.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

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 …

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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 …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Poynter, @nycjim, @edmundlee, @chcktylr, Tech Trader Daily, 4-traders.com and Politico

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The NYT's new dividend is unwise — Keeping Wall Street—and Sulzberger trust funders—happy — Does The New York Times Company have $24 million a year to spare? — Apparently its executives—and more to the point, its Wall Street analysts and its Sulzberger trust fund kids—think it does.

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

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Reuters nixes Next: Failed redesigns and the challenge of expanding a digital audience

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

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

Discussion: @forbes, @forbestech, New York Post, @jeffbercovici and FishbowlNY

Steve Outing / Media Disruptus:

Disaster news coverage will be much better in a few years — Boulder, Colorado, and surrounding towns were hit recently with days of record rainfall, history-making flooding, and epic damage. The destruction covered larger towns like Boulder and Longmont, and was truly horrific in mountain towns like Jamestown and Lyons.

George Mills / The Local:

Spain clamps down on ‘rampant’ internet piracy — Tough new rules on internet piracy are one of the key features of Spain's new penal code to be approved in the country's parliament on Friday. — The new rules mean possible sentences of six years in prison for people link to ‘pirated’ material …

Discussion: Tumbit

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: Indianapolis Star, Gannett Blog, Guardian, @romenesko and Poynter

Wall Street Journal:

China Intensifies Social-Media Crackdown — Campaign Takes Toll on Public Debate, Popular Platform … BEIJING—A forceful campaign of intimidation against China's most influential Internet users has cast a chill over public debate in the country and called into question the long-term viability …

Discussion: Quartz and Business Insider

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

Microsoft COO: 40 percent of Xbox Live's ‘audience’ are women — People love to watch digital video, and the Xbox 360 is one of the big ways they are doing that. Microsoft revealed today that 42 percent of Xbox Live subscribers watch 30 hours of movie and TV content each month and that 40 percent …

Discussion: VG247

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