Mediagazer: Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’ (Alastair Reid/Journalism.co.uk)

10:35 PM ET, October 15, 2013

Top News:

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought the Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand new, large-scale, broadly-focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture — (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, GigaOM, @qhardy and Pressing Issues

PandoDaily:

$40-million round for Vox seals it: Venture capital likes media — Vox's new mega-round puts a bow on content's holy-s**t moment — Today it was revealed that Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation, and Polygon has raised another $40 million of funding.

Discussion: @emilybell, @editorialiste, @codytoshiro, @elegantlywasted, @hsmittman, @robpegoraro and @rafat

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) — “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners' Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs …

Discussion: @rafat, @markos, @reckless and Digital Media Wire

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.

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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

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage — Twitter is changing an old policy that meant that you could only be DM'd by — that is, you could only receive a direct message from — users that you follow. (So if I follow John Doe …

Discussion: Mashable and Pocket-lint

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings report today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …

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The Smoking Gun:

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

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Can Journalists Cut It as CEOs? — Reporters are notorious procrastinators, cynical to the core, often disorganized and frequently drunk. Sounds like CEO material. — But there are exceptions to the crude stereotype above. On Sunday, Jim VandeHei, co-founder and executive editor …

Discussion: @digiday and @juliemmoos

Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase

Discussion: Folio, FishbowlDC and Adweek

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, @joepompeo and FRANCE 24

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The International New York Times debuts

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Twitter Revenue More Than Doubles in Third Quarter — Twitter Inc.'s revenue more than doubled in the third quarter, as the microblogging company prepares to go public. The San Francisco-based company said in a filing that its revenue was $168.6 million in the third quarter, up from $82.3 million in the same period a year ago.

Discussion: CNBC, Forbes, VentureBeat, GeekWire and @pkafka

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Viral Content With a Liberal Bent — There is conventional wisdom about what kind of material will go viral on the Internet: celebrity slide shows, lists like 10 tips for losing belly fat, and quirky kitten antics. — Then there is the path of Upworthy.com, whose goal is to make more serious content …

Discussion: TED Blog, Thanks:@joshluger

Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:

CIR Reaches Out To New Audiences With ‘Redaction’ Campaign — The Center for Investigative Reporting has launched a re-branding campaign with advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. — The campaign includes a new logo, along with recent projects like ‘Reveal’ …

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’ — The ‘journalistic start-up’ and ‘innovations lab’ is looking to incorporate numerous elements of digital journalism into a bi-monthly, tablet-first edition — Copyright: Image by John.Karakatsanis on Flickr. Some rights reserved

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Univision to Debut ‘Flama,’ Its First Online-Only Video Network, on YouTube — Hispanic broadcaster forms joint venture with Bedrocket for online Latin culture network aimed at millennials — Univision Communications has formed a joint venture with digital media producer Bedrocket Media to launch Flama …

Discussion: Tubefilter and VideoInk

Tim Masters / BBC:

Man Booker Prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner with The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton began writing her winning novel when she was 25 — New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Associated Press, New York Times, TIME and Reuters

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.

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