Mediagazer: The Quartz business model: Free with limited, well-designed ads for top brands (Frédéric Filloux/Monday Note)

7:05 PM ET, October 14, 2013

Top News:

International New York Times kicks off rebranding with global events and free digital access — ‘International New York Times’ kicks off with events in Paris, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Singapore and more — As readers pick up the final issue today of The International Herald Tribune under the title …

Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
International Herald Tribune: the paper of the American abroad

Discussion: New York Times, @danbilefsky, Talking New Media, FishbowlNY and New York Times

Christine Haughney / New York Times:
A Leaner Times Aims for Global Growth

Discussion: @sunny_hundal, @elisabethmalkin, @jamesfallows, @markmackinnon and @lachlanfharris

Anna Prior / Wall Street Journal:

Demand Media CEO, Chairman Resigns — Demand Media Inc. (DMD) said its board has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, and has appointed an interim CEO as it begins the search for a permanent replacement shortly and evaluates the timing of its spin-off plan.

Demand Media:

Demand Media Announces Resignation of Richard Rosenblatt as Chairman & CEO; Shawn Colo Appointed Interim CEO; James Quandt Appointed Chairman — SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 14, 2013— Demand Media® (NYSE: DMD) today announced that its board of directors has accepted …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Variety

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Sony Strikes Production Deal With Netflix — Sony Pictures Television will become the first big Hollywood studio to produce a new TV show for Netflix Inc., underscoring how the TV industry's elite are starting to view the streaming video service as a launch pad for original series.

Discussion: The Wrap, GigaOM, Deadline.com, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear, The Verge, @amolsharmawsj and The Next Web

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Quartz business model: Free with limited, well-designed ads for top brands — The Quartz Way (2) — Last week, we looked at Atlantic Media's business site Quartz (qz.com) from an editorial and product standpoint. Today, we focus on its business model based on an emerging form of advertising.

Discussion: @filloux and Talking Biz News

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Carl Bernstein Plans Memoir on His Cub Reporter Days — The writer Carl Bernstein has struck a deal to write a memoir of his early years as a cub reporter in Washington, his publisher, Henry Holt & Company, said on Monday. — Rather than focusing on his famous tenure at The Washington Post …

Discussion: @juliebosman and @romenesko

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

Post Mortem — A (somewhat premature) newspaper autopsy. — If the New York Post should ever close its doors, after a two-century-plus history, the man most responsible for this will be Chase Carey, who has been chief operating officer of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for a dozen years.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @clairehoworth, FishbowlNY, @jonathangass, Capital New York, @huffpostmedia, @agolis and @mathewi

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Jack Dorsey denies ousting forgotten founder, as he tells his side of Twitter's early story — With an upcoming IPO, Twitter has a vested interest in smoothing out people's perceptions of its founding story. So perhaps its no surprise to see a New Yorker profile on Jack Dorsey which gives …

Discussion: Gawker, New Yorker, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Yahoo! News and @tcarmody

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Capital New York Hires Three Columnists As Relaunch Nears — Capital New York has been hiring up reporters to cover media and politics since Politico purchased the site last month, following the Beltway site's model of going big in signature beats before later branching out.

Discussion: The Wrap, FishbowlNY and @glynnmacn

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Vice CEO on old media: ‘They can go to hell quite frankly.’ — Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, talks about finding success online, his unorthodox approach to news and filming Dennis Rodman in North Korea. — FORTUNE — Born as an indie magazine, Vice Media has morphed …

Discussion: @markkola and @snlevine

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism — ‘If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?’, says the former editor of The Independent — Like many people, I've spent years writing and speaking about the lethal power-subservient pathologies plaguing establishment journalism in the west.