Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:25 AM ET, October 16, 2013

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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.
RELATED:
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras Teaming Up With Glenn Greenwald On New Media Venture  —  NEW YORK — Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras will be working with Glenn Greenwald on a new media venture funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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 …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Rejects Appeal Bid by Writer in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, who was ordered in July to testify in the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency official accused of leaking information to him.
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.
RELATED:
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Aaron Swartz's last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home  —  (Daniel J. Sieradski via Flickr)  —  Before Aaron Swartz's suicide in January, he had nearly completed work with Wired's Kevin Poulsen on a secure system to accept messages and documents from anonymous sources over the Internet.
RELATED:
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC to Name Head of VOD Service, Treat It Like Fifth TV Channel  —  Director of television Danny Cohen discusses possible on-demand offers, expected cost cuts and when broadband delivery of content may supersede broadcasting in the U.K.  —  LONDON - The BBC is planning to name a controller …
Discussion: 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
RELATED:
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage
Discussion: Mashable and Pocket-lint
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Marvel Preps 60-Episode Package Of Four Series & A Mini For VOD & Cable Networks  —  EXCLUSIVE: The notorious secrecy that surrounds Marvel's projects has been heightened to the nth degree for this one.  No one would breathe a word, with rumors that everyone from top to bottom is bound …
Jim Romenesko:
Patch now has some unstaffed sites  —  Patch now has three types of sites: Staffed, Lightly Staffed, and Unstaffed.  They're explained in a memo sent this morning by Patch Media CEO Bud Rosenthal.
Discussion: Poynter
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
AwesomenessTV, Hearst to Create Channel Aimed at Teen Girls  —  Keach Hagey … When Hearst Corp. wanted to expand its affluent-male Esquire brand into television, it linked up with a cable channel.  But to establish a video channel for its teen girl bible Seventeen, Hearst is turning to Google Inc. 's YouTube.
Discussion: The Wrap, Folio, Digital Journal and Variety
Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
NFL Explores New Slate of Thursday Night Games  —  SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN  —  Shalini Ramachandran … The National Football League is considering selling another slate of Thursday games to a media outlet to increase the audience for football on one of television's most competitive nights …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Says Piracy Damages Can't Be Measured  —  As the trial date moves closer, the arguments between the MPAA and BitTorrent search engine isoHunt are heating up.  —  One of the issues the two parties are in disagreement over is whether isoHunt should be able to question the notion that piracy is actually hurting the movie industry.
Discussion: Softpedia News
Shalini Ramachandran / Corporate Intelligence:
In Aereo Fight, Are Comcast and NBCUniversal at Odds? … Are Comcast Corp.'s cable business and its NBCUniversal entertainment unit on the same page when it comes to the Aereo legal battle?  That's a question worth asking in the wake of Friday's petition by major broadcasters seeking …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Zach Bergson / Digiday:
NowThis: Snapchatting the News  —  NowThis News, the mobile video news organization whose push onto Instagram made headlines this summer, is now moving onto a new social video frontier: Snapchat.  —  Stories, Snapchat's latest feature, allows users to take a series of videos and images that can be viewed and shared within 24 hours.
Discussion: Mashable and @digiday
AdAge:
Effort to Split Murdoch From Chairman Role Resumes at 21st Century Fox  —  Similar Drives Have Fallen Short Before  —  21st Century Fox Inc. investors backing a resolution to strip the chairman job from CEO Rupert Murdoch said they have won the support of shareholder-advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian  —  PM says leaks have damaged national security and suggests MPs could ‘examine issue and make further recommendations’  —  David Cameron has encouraged a Commons select committee to investigate whether the Guardian …
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: VideoInk and Tubefilter
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
New York Times editor defends journalists over Snowden leaks  —  Jill Abramson says on BBC's Newsnight that Guardian articles on NSA files are ‘very much in the public interest’  —  Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, has mounted a defence of the ability of journalists …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Stories about politics inspire best, worst comments  —  Researchers from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) spoke with online editors and community managers at 104 news organizations from 63 countries to help assemble a report written by Emma Goodman …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:25 AM ET, October 16, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 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: 
AFP:
With risks multiplying, reporters stay out of Syria
Discussion: @nedcolt
Ellen Hammett / MediaTel:
Nielsen launches ‘multi-screen ad measurement’ in UK
Discussion: Media Week and Guardian
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
FilmOn Threatened With Contempt of Court
Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:
CIR Reaches Out To New Audiences With ‘Redaction’ Campaign
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Viral Content With a Liberal Bent
Thanks:@joshluger
 Earlier Picks: 
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Twitter Revenue More Than Doubles in Third Quarter
Discussion: CNBC, VentureBeat, @pkafka and GeekWire
Sally McGrane / New Yorker:
Crowdsourcing Tolstoy  —  When Leo Tolstoy's great-great-granddaughter …
Discussion: @dhanyamadhavann
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Uri Friedman Named Global Editor of TheAtlantic.com
Discussion: @natalieraabe and FishbowlDC
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page