Mediagazer: Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

2:35 PM ET, October 15, 2013

Top News:

Arianna Huffington made just $21 million from sale of Huffington Post, new document reveals — HuffPost founder pocketed “only” $21 million from web site sale — In a new court filing, lawyers for two men suing Arianna Huffington for allegedly denying them credit and cash for their role …

Discussion: Gawker, Poynter, Deadline.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @romenesko, @drudge_report and New York Magazine

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Harper's Redesigns Its Web Site and Embraces Branded Content — HARPER'S Bazaar is joining the growing list of media properties whose publishers are supplementing more traditional forms of advertising with sponsored content. — The magazine, which is owned by Hearst …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @careyathearst, @hearstcorp and @dmaunited

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Who's Behind the Sponsored Content at BuzzFeed, Gawker, Hearst and WashPo? — A Look at Four Big Publishers, And How Their Native-Advertising Teams Shape Up — What good is native advertising if it doesn't talk like a native? — To help advertisers, media companies are building teams …

Discussion: @chrisboutet, @paulcarr and @romenesko, Thanks:@steverubel

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

The International New York Times debuts — The first edition of The International New York Times appeared Tuesday. It replaces the International Herald Tribune. In a letter to readers on the front page, Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. says his father “had the vision to make The Times a national newspaper in 1980.”

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Forbes, FishbowlNY, Associated Press, @poynter and Capital New York

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts — As we reported yesterday, The New York Times is doing a big promotional push for its new global edition, The International New York Times, which debuted this morning as a rebranded version of The International Herald Tribune.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Times and @joepompeo

Martin Belam:

How UsVsTh3m shows the Royal Charter regulation farce is not fit for purpose in the digital age — Well, wouldn't you know, after years of blogging about how press regulation didn't work in the digital era, I find myself having just helped launch the very epitome of why the current proposals are completely unfit for the 21st century.

Discussion: @flashboy and @jimwaterson

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter

Discussion: Daily Mail, @joannahiggins and Guardian

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

YouTube Partner: We Are ‘Not Happy’ With Money From Subscription Channels — Alchemy Networks CEO Peter Griffith was one of the first media executives to bet YouTube viewers would pay to access certain channels. His company was one of the YouTube's initial partners when it debuted subscription channels …

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Netflix, as Easy as Changing the Channel — The television two-step is familiar to nearly every household with a TV set and a Netflix subscription. To watch cable, the television must be on one setting; to browse Netflix, it has to be on another. For some family members …

Discussion: @brianstelter, @pkafka, @beauwillimon, @mariondebruyne, @brianstelter and Los Angeles Times

Bloomberg:
Netflix Gets Assist From TiVo in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup

Discussion: Businessweek and SlashGear

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sony Strikes Production Deal With Netflix

Discussion: News Release Archive, The Wrap, TechnoBuffalo, Deadline.com, VentureBeat, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web and @amolsharmawsj

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post — NEW YORK — Adam Goldman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press, is joining The Washington Post to cover terrorism on the paper's national security team, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post.

Discussion: The New York Observer and Politico

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase — Jim VandeHei will bring his 15 years of covering Beltway wheeling and dealing to helping Politico and its new Big Apple bauble Capital New York in its quest to become the dominant force in political journalism.

Discussion: Digiday, Folio, FishbowlDC, Adweek, USA Today and Politico

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

PolicyMic Raises $3M, Betting That Millennials Want Substantive News And Commentary — How many younger readers really care about news and politics — as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers under 35 …

Discussion: @erichippeau, @mattturck, @jacobdhorowitz and @wp

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business — Company's Tech Site Out-Traffics TechCrunch, Wired, Engadget — Vox Media may only have three sites to its name — The Verge, SB Nation and Polygon — but that hasn't stopped the D.C.-based company from stuffing its pockets.

Discussion: AllThingsD, GigaOM, @hblodget, Fortune, @jeffjohnroberts, @agolis, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan and @pkafka

The Huffington Post:

SecureDrop: A New Infrastructure for Strong, Secure Investigative Journalism — In February Chelsea Manning delivered a lengthy statement to the military court that would eventually sentence her to 35 years in prison for leaking classified military secrets to WikiLeaks.

Discussion: Freedom of the Press …, The Switch, @jcstearns and @jayrosen_nyu