Top News:
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
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:
Robert Feder, Politico, Radio & Television …, Talking New Media, Chicago Sun Times, Strange Attractor and @megjameslat
RELATED:
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, The Wrap, @carr2n, Los Angeles Times, Chicagoist, 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
RELATED:
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 …
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
RELATED:
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
RELATED:
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:
Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Deadline.com, AdAge, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @jbflint and @awallenstein
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
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 …
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:
Erik Wemple, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, @kairyssdal, @dylanbyers, @lizzieohreally, TheBlaze.com, Mother Jones, @politicokevin, Mediaite and Vanity Fair
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
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