Mediagazer: News Corp's “problem child” is actually performing just fine (John McDuling/Quartz)

12:30 AM ET, October 17, 2013

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald for a new venture in news — Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar.

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.

Discussion: Poynter, @tcarmody, The Switch, Gawker, Mashable, Press Gazette, FishbowlNY, Big News Network.com, New York Magazine, Reuters, Washington Post, Daily Dot, Business Insider, CNET and Boing Boing

Will Bunch / Philly.com:

Civic-minded billionaires like Omidyar and Bezos will save journalism, and that's not so bad — Like it or not, this is the future of American journalism — It I had a dime for every story that I've read over the last decade about how to save American journalism, I'd probably have as much money as this guy.

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Times Reporter Plans to Take Fight to the Supreme Court — For James Risen, an investigative reporter for The Times, the bad news just keeps on coming. When I wrote about him in late July, a federal appeals panel had just ruled against him in a case related to a leak investigation.

Discussion: @sulliview, @michaelroston, @mlcalderone, @penenberg, @pgourevitch, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Rejects Appeal Bid by Writer in Leak Case

Discussion: Poynter, Politico, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, @ggreenwald, @mattapuzzo, @charlie_savage and The Newspaper Guild

Guardian:

MPs set to investigate Guardian's involvement in Snowden leaks — Keith Vaz says home affairs committee to look at newspaper's activities as part of inquiry into counter-terrorism — A powerful group of MPs will investigate the Guardian's publication of stories about mass surveillance based …

Discussion: @dangillmor, @stuartmillar159, @ccriadoperez, @astroehlein, @ggreenwald, @jonathanhaynes, @fieldproducer and @paul__johnson

Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, @jonswaine, @scriptonite, @doublejake, @freedomofpress and @kpoulsen

Ben Quinn / Guardian: New York Times editor defends journalists over Snowden leaks

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Google launches site highlighting journalism tools on offer — The new site outlines the different ways journalists can make best use of Google's tools, and features links to industry use cases — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Discussion: The Next Web

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

New York magazine considers going biweekly — New York magazine, launched as a weekly magazine 45 years ago by Clay Felker, is mulling a move to a biweekly in 2014. Anup Bagaria, CEO of parent company New York Media, confirmed to The Post that the move is being considered at the highest level …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Brian Fung / The Switch:

How the FCC plans to clear the air for more mobile data — Not long from now, cars will start talking to other cars. Wearable technology will put the Internet on your body. Phones won't just be for interacting with the Web anymore; they'll also start to respond to other inanimate objects around them.

Stuart Thomas / memeburn:

Paywalls, aggregation and the ‘third metric’: Memeburn interviews Arianna Huffington — If you know anything about online publishing, chances are you know about The Huffington Post. The online news aggregator and blog, after all, overtook the New York Times in terms of unique visits …

Anna Li / Poynter:

Nielsen method for TV ratings missing minorities, young people — Television executives are increasingly concerned that paper diary measurement, a method from the 1950s to track TV viewing, excludes significant segments of the U.S. population, thus producing inaccurate ratings.

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Media tech accelerator Matter announces its second class of startups — Matter, the accelerator for media startups founded by Corey Ford and backed by KQED, the Knight Foundation and PRX, announced its second class of startups Wednesday. Here they are:

Discussion: Matter and Knight Foundation

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. “If we don't start calling unstaffed sites ‘Zombie Patch,’ we've failed.”

Discussion: Poynter and @romenesko

Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica:

Hackers hit PR Newswire, data shows up alongside recently stolen Adobe code — Krebs on Security hints these aren't the only companies with hacked data on the servers. — Today, Krebs on Security reported that publicity service PR Newswire was hacked in March 2013.

Discussion: Krebs on Security

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix VP: Chromecast could take second-screen TV mainstream — Netflix isn't going to produce elaborate second-screen apps with a whole bunch of additional content any time soon. Instead, it's investing in second-screen control - and having high hopes for Chromecast.

Discussion: Engadget

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Can digital rentals block piracy? New site gathers the data — The most popular content still isn't available quickly, cheaply, and legally. — Google made changes to its search algorithm last year in an effort to demote sites associated with piracy, but the entertainment industry continues …

Discussion: Technology Liberation Front, Techdirt, Gizmodo, WebProNews and Variety

John McDuling / Quartz:

News Corp's “problem child” is actually performing just fine — It's now more than three months since Rupert Murdoch divided in his media empire in two—separating the print media businesses on which his fortune was founded from his booming entertainment assets. And it hasn't played out as many expected.

Kadhim Shubber / Wired UK:

BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on balancing investigative journalism with cute kittens — Founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti's impact on the way online content is created and consumed is perhaps immeasurable. From the share button “Reblog” to BuzzFeed's list-based approach to journalism …

Discussion: @niemanlab and @nycjim

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Refinery29 ditches commerce, raising $20 million to double down on content — Well, that was a fun experiment. Last year fashion site Refinery29 made a big push into “content and commerce,” which was the buzzword du jour for any digital company offering either.

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Betabeat, AllThingsD and @lulupho