Mediagazer: Breitbart News shakes up masthead (Dylan Byers/Politico)

8:15 PM ET, October 17, 2013

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED) — Adversarial muckrakers + civic-minded billionaire = a whole new world — Make no mistake, news that Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to start a new publication funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar is giant news …

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Adrienne LaFrance / The Great Debate:
Former Civil Beat reporter tells what it's like to work with Pierre Omidyar

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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Civic-minded billionaires like Omidyar and Bezos will save journalism, and that's not so bad

Discussion: Guardian, @adrianchen, BBC, @joseiswriting, Mashable and CNET

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Digital subscriptions to the Times and Sunday Times top 150,000 — News UK reveals that the two titles have a total of 350,000 subscribers to print and online editions — News UK has revealed that the number of digital subscribers to the Times and Sunday Times has topped 150,000.

Discussion: mUmBRELLA

Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

FT says that following shift from print to digital it now employs more journalists than ever before — The shift from print to digital journalism can lead to an increase in editorial staff according to the Financial Times. — Mary Beth Christie, the title's head of operations …

Discussion: @raju

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

It's Official: Mike Hopkins Named CEO of Hulu — Interim CEO Andy Forssell exits — Hulu has announced Fox Networks distribution chief as CEO of Hulu. — Interim CEO Andy Forssell will be leaving the company. — “After an extensive search, Mike was simply the best candidate for the job.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Union warns ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ employees to be ‘careful what you say’ — Stormy weather at ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer.’ — The union that represents hundreds of employees at the embattled Philadelphia Inquirer has a warning for them. — “It has become painfully clear that your work emails …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and @abeaujon

Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Philly newspaper stars in ugly melodrama

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

IsoHunt to Shut Down After Settlement With Hollywood Studios — The BitTorrent indexer has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a copyright infringement case. — The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that it has reached a settlement with the operators of IsoHunt …

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Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

The rise of ‘dark search’ is great for publishers, bad for keyword stuffers — At Google, the keyword is inching towards its inevitable, overdue demise. But then again, maybe its death is already here. Over the past few months publishers have seem a dramatic rise in the amount of traffic …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Breitbart News shakes up masthead — Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned.

Discussion: @bankofkev, @dylanbyers and @noltenc

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Maker Studios Founder Danny Zappin Buys Website NewMediaRockstars — Danny Zappin, former CEO and co-founder of YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios, has acquired Internet video news website NewMediaRockstars, seeking to build it into what he envisions as an Entertainment Weekly for online entertainment.

Discussion: The Wrap, YouTube News, AllThingsD and FishbowlNY

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

NewsCred launches NewsRoom, a freelance-based newswire service — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Disclosure: NewsCred has a syndication partnership with VentureBeat. — While the majority of demands for syndicated content comes from well-established publications like the New York Times …

Discussion: Fast Company, Mashable and Forbes

Brian Lowry / Variety:

News' Need to Pump Web Traffic Presents Speedbump for Network TV Coverage — For years, the interests of TV networks and newspapers were pretty closely aligned - today, however, the old rules are shifting — For years, the interests of TV networks and newspapers were pretty closely aligned, or seemed to be.

Discussion: @davidpoland

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

More code, more coders: Knight invests $4 million to expand Knight-Mozilla partnership — The Knight Foundation is reinvesting in Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to help grow the community of journalism-centered hackers and find ways to better integrate them into media companies.

Discussion: Online News Association, Poynter, FishbowlDC, @dansinker, Knight Foundation and @a_l

Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:

British judge forbids WSJ from publishing names in Libor fraud probe — U.K. Prosecutors Win Injunction Amid Investigation — Cassell Bryan-Low … LONDON—British prosecutors on Thursday obtained a court order prohibiting The Wall Street Journal from publishing names of individuals …

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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

How Robert Costa Became the Golden Boy of the Government Shutdown — As the dust settles from the government shutdown and debt-ceiling standoff, and while John Boehner and Ted Cruz figure out what's next from out the wreckage, at least one man on the right is giddy.