Mediagazer: Rem Rieder is named USA Today feature editor (Jim Romenesko)

5:00 PM ET, September 24, 2013

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Aereo Expands to Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and San Antonio — Aereo, Inc. is adding four new cities to its nationwide expansion: Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, and San Antonio, Texas. — The combined population of those four markets is eight million people.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, CNET, VentureBeat, multichannel.com/rss, Variety, Digital Journal and Broadcast

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap: TheGrill: Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia - 'Cable's an Inefficient Packaging System'

Suzanne LaBarre / Popular Science:

Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments — Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why. — Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off. — It wasn't a decision we made lightly.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

No new TV viewers or newspaper subscribers are being born, BuzzFeed president says — Speaking at a NewsCred conference last week, BuzzFeed President Jon Steinberg talked about his theory that content, and the ways it is distributed, will be “completely decoupled, I would say, in the next five years.”

Discussion: @noirinhegarty, @rajunarisetti, @stuartdredge and @dianaruggontv

P.J. Bednarski / mediapost.com:

Iger Sees Little Cord-Cutting, Says Netflix is Good, Not Dominant — Walt Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger, appearing at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York today, no doubt is getting a lot of feedback from his statement that, as far as cord cutting is concerned, “we don't see evidence of this occurring.”

Discussion: Variety and Deadline.com

Eric Newton / Columbia Journalism Review:

Paying attention to the shield law's critics — Journalists shouldn't blindly support the shield law without taking in the whole picture — When a Senate committee this month approved the “Free Flow of Information Act of 2013,” applause was heard from scores of media shield law supporters …

Discussion: BuzzMachine, @heychrisbarr, Slate, @jeffjarvis and Kirk LaPointe's …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Dan Colarusso named executive editor of Reuters Digital — Dan Colarusso is the new executive editor of Reuters Digital, making him the third person this year to hold that title at the news service. — His appointment, announced in an internal memo obtained by Capital …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Politico, @niemanlab, @joepompeo, @peterlauria3, @antderosa and @peterlauria3

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

TV news should have on-air fact-checkers — You don't usually think of ESPN's Tony Kornheiser as a journalism ethics sage. A font of sports one-liners, sure. An adviser on ways to improve news outlets' accountability, not so much. But the co-host of Pardon the Interruption is on to something …

Discussion: @antderosa, @davidfolkenflik and TVSpy

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

UK music magazine NME experiments with charging for enhanced version of cover story — NME to experiment with online charges — Magazine will charge 69p for access to ‘enhanced digital’ version of its cover feature but says there are no plans for a full paywall

Jim Romenesko:

Rem Rieder is named USA Today feature editor — Rem Rieder, who resigned as American Journalism Review editor in June to become USA Today media editor, is taking on the additional duties of feature editor at Gannett's flagship paper. The editor's memo:

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Appeals To Publishers With New Article Pins, Pushes To Become A Bookmarking & “Read It Later” Service — Only days after announcing the launch of ads, social networking site Pinterest is now making an appeal to publishers. The company is today rolling out an updated “article” …

Discussion: Fast Company, Oh, How Pinteresting!, Betabeat, Guardian, GigaOM, @acbarette, Engadget, ReadWrite, The Verge and Mashable

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

News Corp reveals phone-hacking legal costs of £238m — Rupert Murdoch's media empire has spent $382m (£238m) over the past two years on legal fees dealing with the aftermath of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. — In its annual report, released over the weekend …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, @colvinius, @jeffjarvis and Crikey

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe has built a localized, tweet-powered news aggregator — In the Boston area, the passing of a Dunkin Donuts franchise is news. So are the finer points of Tom Brady's hair. But in this instance, we know the closing of the Mass Ave.

Discussion: paidContent, @geninnovate and @niemanlab

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Hulu CEO: $750M means you start getting more scripts — The acting chief of the online-television site said one effect of getting a cash infusion means more pitches for original content — but Hulu's ambitions there are relatively muted. — NEW YORK — Andy Forssell …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

YouTube Announces A New Commenting System, Powered By Google+, With Threaded, Ranked And Private Conversations — YouTube today announced a new commenting system that will be powered by Google+. The system, which is launching on channel discussion tabs this week before rolling out to all videos …

Discussion: YouTube Blog, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, CNET, WebProNews, The Verge, The Next Web and Electronista

Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:

BBC.com and Quora Partner Up For New Column — BBC.com and Quora announced a partnership this week. It's called the Quora Column, and BBC.com contributors will write columns based on popular discussions on the Q&A site. — They launched a trial column this summer on the travel pages, where it's been a success.

Discussion: mediapost.com and Slate

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Troy Young Is Reinventing Hearst Digital With a Wrecking Ball — Digital President's Brusque Managing Style Brought In to Boost Web Presence of Cosmo, Esquire — Unlike his buttoned-up peers in the executive suite at Hearst, Troy Young doesn't keep an office, nor does he wear designer suits to work.

Discussion: @troyyoung, @elishahartwig and eMedia Vitals

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

With LiveAd, Ustream Customers Can Promote Their Video Content With Interactive Ads — Live video company Ustream has been quietly transforming itself, according to co-founder and CEO Brad Hunstable, who said the company has switched from being an ad-supported media business to a technology provider …