Mediagazer: Conflicts of Interest: CNN adjusts ethics policy around Crossfire (Hadas Gold/Politico)

4:50 PM ET, September 27, 2013

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Tribune prepares for cost-cutting, says no targets for expense reduction have been issued — Tribune newspapers, including L.A. Times, prepare for cost-cutting — Tribune newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, may be due for another round of cost-cuting. Above, at the Tribune Tower in Chicago.

Discussion: MediaPost, Robert Feder, The Huffington Post, Politico, Chicago Sun Times, Strange Attractor, Radio & Television …, Talking New Media and @megjameslat

Robert Feder:

Tribune boss orders $100 million in cuts — It's not clear how they're supposed to do it, but Tribune Co. executives have been ordered to come up with $100 million in budget cuts, sources said, as the company prepares to spin off the publishing side of the business.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, USA Today, The Wrap, @dangillmor, @carr2n, Chicagoist, Los Angeles Times, bizjournals, @logandobson and Change of Subject

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media — Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control' — Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism - close down the news bureaus …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Attention v. relationship economy — Oddly, Google chief economist Hal Varian analyzes newspapers' problems and prescribes solutions strictly from an old-media perspective — based on attention to marketing messages — rather than an internet (namely, Google) perspective of relevance and relationships.

Discussion: Inside, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jayrosen_nyu, @digiphile and @mathewi

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Google's chief economist understands media better than some industry executives do — Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, talked about the challenges facing the newspaper business in a recent presentation in Italy, and showed that he understands those challenges better than most media executives.

Discussion: International Journalism … and Kirk LaPointe's …

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Conflicts of Interest: CNN adjusts ethics policy around Crossfire — Yesterday we reported that Crossfire host Newt Gingrich may have broken ethical rules for conflicts of interest set forth by CNN's EVP of standards and practices Rick Davis. — Today, those rules appear to have changed.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, @kairyssdal, New York Magazine, @dylanbyers, Mother Jones, @politicokevin, @lizzieohreally, TheBlaze.com, Mediaite and Vanity Fair

Erik Wemple:
CNN on ‘Crossfire’ ethics: Ha!

Discussion: @noahcrothman, @erikwemple and The Huffington Post

Jim Romenesko:

GateHouse Media: Our bankruptcy filing ‘is not a reflection of any operational problem’ — GateHouse Media has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CEO Michael Reed says in a memo that “with the challenges facing our industry and the impending maturity of our secured debt next year …

Discussion: Poynter

Bloomberg:
GateHouse Files for Bankruptcy as Part of Fortress Plan

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, PR Newswire and The Beacon-Villager News RSS

Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:

Kieron Bryan: British Journalist Held Without Trial in Russia — Video journalist Kieron Bryan was captured while filming a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic Circle. By Nico Hines — A 29-year-old British journalist has been imprisoned in Russia for two months without trial after filming …

Discussion: BBC

RT:
Russian media protests detention of Greenpeace freelance photographer

Discussion: Associated Press and The Moscow Times

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Reuters cuts raise questions about company's consumer strategy — Today, the Newspaper Guild, a union that represents approximately 400 employees of the global information provider Thomson Reuters, announced that management is seeking “to eliminate five Guild positions from the recently …

Discussion: BuzzFeed

The Newspaper Guild of New York: Next, Reuters targets five jobs in demise of website project

Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:

Plagiarism and Attribution Tests for Journalists: A Must or Not? — If there's anything journalists know, it's how not to plagiarize in our writing. Right? Right?! Wrong, apparently. — Wednesday Jim Romenesko broke the news on his blog that Digital First Media (DFM) …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Top NBCU Digital Exec Lauren Zalaznick to Depart Company — Well-known NBCUniversal exec Lauren Zalaznick, who has recently been working on the media giant's growth into new digital arenas, is leaving the company, according to an internal memo. — A longtime veteran of NBCU …

Discussion: The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Deadline.com, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @awallenstein and @jbflint

GNM press office:

Alex Koppelman joins the Guardian as US News Editor — The Guardian announced today that it has hired Alex Koppelman as US news editor. The announcement was made by the Guardian's US editor in chief Janine Gibson. — Koppelman will be a senior member of the editing team and will help set …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @nxthompson

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

BuzzFeed Dominates on Facebook, BBC Tops Twitter, Study Says — BuzzFeed, “the media company for the social age,” has mastered at least one social network. — A NewsWhip study released on Thursday showed that the social sharing-focused site had far and away the most engagement on Facebook …

Discussion: Poynter, Journalism.co.uk, The Whip and @tomgara

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

New York Times Forecasts Further Drop in Ad Revenue — Overall Revenue to Rise, Though, Thanks to Stronger Circulation — New York Times Co. expects to report around a 3% decline in print and digital advertising revenue for the third quarter, Chief Executive Mark Thompson said Thursday …

Discussion: Reuters and MoneyBeat

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Unity elects David Steinberg as its president — Unity: Journalists for Diversity elected San Francisco Chronicle copy desk chief David Steinberg as its president, the organization announced Friday. Steinberg and Janet Cho both put their names forward, Richard Prince reported earlier this month.