Mediagazer: The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED) (Ryan Chittum/Columbia Journalism Review)

5:55 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 …

Discussion: The Monkey Cage, GigaOM, Wired, @joshuafoust, @20committee, Kirk LaPointe's …, The New York Observer, Washington Post, Forbes, TheBlaze.com, The Huffington Post, Subtraction.com, FishbowlNY, Poynter, The Drum, Pressthink and @allanbrauer

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

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Jack Shafer, @mlcalderone, The Switch, Corporate Intelligence, Softpedia News, Press Gazette and Media Law Prof Blog

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, CNET, @poynter and @mleewelch

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.

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.

Discussion: Business Wire, AdAge, Home Media Magazine, The Wrap, NetNewsCheck.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, @xpangler, Hollywood Reporter, @brianstelter and Engadget

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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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 …

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 …

Discussion: GigaOM, Ars Technica, Deadline.com, Variety, TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Daily Dot and The Next Web

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, FishbowlNY, YouTube News and AllThingsD

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, FishbowlDC, Poynter, @dansinker, Knight Foundation and @a_l

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

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Behind the Scenes on Changes to a Story on Pope Francis — Laurie Goodstein covers one of the most scrutinized beats at The Times. As national religion correspondent, her recent articles on Pope Francis have been the topic of plenty of conversation and discussion - and have had very heavy readership.

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.

Discussion: @jaketapper, @jayrosen_nyu, @jonathanchait, @danfostertype, @billwasik and Politico

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Pageview Journalism Gets a Reset — The pageview has become something of a symbol of all that's wrong with digital media. And yet its death is very highly exaggerated since it's the one Web metric publishers tend to gravitate to when grasping at what success looks like.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Gets Its E-Book Antitrust Monitor — The federal judge who found Apple guilty of colluding with five of the six largest publishers in the U.S. in an e-book price-fixing scheme has chosen the external antitrust compliance monitors charged with making sure the company doesn't overstep the law again.