Mediagazer: Lee Thornton, First African American Woman to Cover the White House for TV, Has Died (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

7:05 PM ET, September 27, 2013

Top News:

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, Strange Attractor, Radio & Television …, Talking New Media, Chicago Sun Times and @megjameslat

Robert Feder:
Tribune boss orders $100 million in cuts

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

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 …

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

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

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

Discussion: @noahcrothman and @erikwemple

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

Discussion: International Journalism … and Kirk LaPointe's …

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, The Beacon-Villager News RSS and PR Newswire

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 …

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

RT:

Russian media protests detention of Greenpeace freelance photographer — A dozen Russian websites have used black and gray squares instead of photos, protesting against the detention of a Russian freelance photographer with other Greenpeace activists for their action in the Arctic.

Discussion: Associated Press and The Moscow Times

Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Kieron Bryan: British Journalist Held Without Trial in Russia

Discussion: BBC

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

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

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Feds: DOJ press guidelines don't raise bar for leak case — New guidelines Attorney General Eric Holder issued recently for investigations involving journalists don't undercut legal arguments made in an ongoing leak prosecution, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday.

Discussion: @joshgerstein and @kgosztola

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

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Lee Thornton, First African American Woman to Cover the White House for TV, Has Died — Lee Thornton, a former CNN and CBS correspondent, has died. — Thornton, who died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer, was the first African American woman to cover a regular White House beat for one of the big three broadcast networks, at CBS News.

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Tom Hals / Reuters:

Judge tosses lawsuit opposed to Sirius takeover by Liberty Media — (Reuters) - The board of Sirius XM Radio Inc did not breach its duty to shareholders by allowing a takeover by Liberty Media Corp without demanding it pay a premium for the stock, a Delaware judge ruled on Friday.