Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:00 PM ET, October 15, 2013

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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.”
RELATED:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts
Discussion: Poynter, @joepompeo and FRANCE 24
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 …
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
RELATED:
Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter
Discussion: @joannahiggins, Daily Mail and Guardian
Casey Newton / The Verge:
This just in: why news is Twitter's next frontier  —  A new ‘experiment’ and a high-profile hire suggest big plans  —  Twitter is moving more aggressively into the world of journalism, building a new alert system for breaking news and hiring someone to build new partnerships with the media industry.
Discussion: @mcproulx
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 and USA Today
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 …
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: @paulcarr, @chrisboutet and @romenesko, Thanks:@steverubel
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 …
RELATED:
Bloomberg:
Netflix Gets TiVo Assist in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup
Discussion: Businessweek and SlashGear
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Uri Friedman Named Global Editor of TheAtlantic.com  —  Uri Friedman is rejoining The Atlantic as global editor of its website, TheAtlantic.com.  Friedman comes to The Atlantic from Foreign Policy, where he served as deputy managing editor.  Friedman is succeeding Olga Khazan, who is moving into a writing role.
Discussion: FishbowlDC and @natalieraabe
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Personalized Video Ad Company SundaySky Raises $20M Round Led By Comcast Ventures  —  SundaySky, a company promising to deliver video ads that are customized and updated for each viewer, has raised $20 million in Series C funding.  —  The round was led by Comcast Ventures …
Discussion: @davidbhorowitz
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
News site study: 33% of Twitter referrals return within a week  —  Readers coming to a news site's homepage direct are the most likely to return, according to a study by real-time analytics platform Chartbeat.  Around 80 per cent of those who come to a site direct will come back within one week …
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.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 4:00 PM ET, October 15, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The New Republic Asks Its Reporters To Sell Subscriptions
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Mipcom: TV bosses upbeat as technology opens new opportunities
Discussion: @stuartdredge
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
A web page that lasts forever: the plan to stop “link rot” in law and science
Om Malik / GigaOM:
BillBoard, Nielsen and the ridiculousness of charts in the Internet age, as shown by Kanye West's “Gone”
Discussion: Techdirt and Rap Genius Blog
 Earlier Picks: 
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Media coverage of the 2012 election was fair and balanced after all
Discussion: @monkeycageblog, Wonkblog and Politico
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: New ebook markets, battles and pricing strategies
Discussion: @pulpcurry and TeleRead