Mediagazer: Carl Icahn cuts his Netflix stake in half (CNBC)

6:25 PM ET, October 22, 2013

Top News:

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

AP Fires Third Employee Over Terry McAuliffe Mistake; Guild ‘Alarmed’ — NEW YORK — The guild that represents employees of The Associated Press responded Tuesday to the recent firing of journalists involved in a retracted story about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, saying the employees' rights were violated.

Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Which reporting errors will get one fired? Good luck finding clear standards

Discussion: @craigsilverman and @jeffsonderman, Thanks:@craigsilverman

Erik Wemple:
AP owes public a better explanation of McAuliffe mistake

Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Newspaper Guild

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

David Pogue On Why He's Joining Yahoo: 'I'm A Giant Vat Of Creative Juices' — Gadget guru David Pogue dropped a sizable surprise bomb Monday when he announced that he's leaving The New York Times after 13 years to go work for Yahoo. Pogue's column, “State of the Art,” and his blog …

Discussion: Valleywag, @niemanlab, @futureboy, @moorehn, @max_read, @pogue, Mediaite, Business Insider, ZDNet, VatorNews, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Businessweek and FishbowlNY

Ryan Tate / Wired:
With David Pogue Hire, Yahoo Joins the Journalism Investment Boom

Discussion: CNET, Bloomberg, Softpedia News and Marketing Land

Aaron Nicodemus / Worcester Telegram & Gazette:

Judge blocks sale of Telegram, Globe to Red Sox owner — WORCESTER — A Worcester Superior Court judge has temporarily put the brakes on the proposed sale of The Boston Globe and Telegram & Gazette to Red Sox owner John W. Henry. — Judge Shannon Frison issued a temporary restraining order that stalled the sale Friday.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Times, Reuters, FishbowlNY, @dabeard, @martinepowers, @bostonangela and cir.ca

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Push notifications aren't just for your users' phones any more — Back in June, Apple announced its new version of OS X for Macs, which goes by the name Mavericks. One of the less noticed features was something called Safari Push Notifications, which promises to allow websites on Macs to do what apps on phones can:

Discussion: The Verge, MacRumors, @jbenton, App Advice, AppleInsider and Softpedia News

Sarah Lyall / New York Times:

Meet Tim Burke, the sports journalist behind Deadspin's GIFs — Maker of Animated GIFs Waits for Offbeat Moments — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — At 2:44 p.m. on a recent Sunday, Tim Burke took a moment from monitoring numerous N.F.L. games for the sports Web site Deadspin to post something …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, @codinghorror, @joemfbrown, @thestalwart, @editorialiste, @mittense, @chrisremo, @penlovespaper, @amorrissey, @melissalyttle, @chrisyandle, @deftlyinane, Gawker and Gizmodo

Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:

Apple Preparing 65-Inch TV for Release in 2014, Analyst Says — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will probably start selling ultra-high definition televisions with 65- and 55-inch screens during the fourth quarter of next year, according to a Tokyo-based analyst at Advanced Research Japan Co.

Discussion: BGR, App Advice, Geeky Gadgets, Yahoo! News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk, Network World, @carr2n, Business Insider and Softpedia News

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘New York Times’ closes R&D Ventures — The New York Times Company has shuttered R&D Ventures, a spinoff of its in-house technology think tank, the R&D Lab, Capital has learned. — R&D Ventures was conceived in early 2012 as a vehicle for commercializing innovations spawned by the R&D Lab …

Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:

Facebook has got it spectacularly wrong on beheading videos — So now we know. In Facebook's world, a beheading is OK but an exposed nipple is not. The social media behemoth has decided that a 13-year-old - for that is the permitted minimum age of a Facebook user - can watch a video of a decapitation …

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, BBC, Daily Mail, @guardian, @reftpt, Telegraph, The Independent, The Week UK, Forbes, Sky News, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Neon Tommy, @maajidnawaz, Slate, Inquirer, The Republic, @freedland, Guardian, Kirk LaPointe's …, Boing Boing, CNET, Memex 1.1, Gizmodo and The Verge

Garett Sloane / Adweek:

Outbrain Adds $35 million in Latest Fundraising — Outbrain just picked up $35 million to keep churning out its signature viral advertising links. — The company, known for sponsoring the links that appear on websites like ESPN, Slate and other big media properties online …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Four more Reuters.com employees depart in the wake of Reuters Next debacle — At least four Reuters employees have decided to leave the company following the dissolution of Reuters Next, an expensive and ambitious consumer-facing web reboot that was killed last month.

CNBC:

Carl Icahn cuts his Netflix stake in half — Investor Carl Icahn disclosed that he is cutting his Netflix stake to 4.5 percent from the 9.4 percent disclosed at the end of June.

Discussion: Deadline.com, @carl_c_icahn, The Wrap, Business Insider and MoneyBeat

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Staff of Washington Post Bids Farewell to Grahams — WASHINGTON — The Graham family said goodbye to The Washington Post after eight decades of ownership with an emotional send-off reception on Monday night for roughly 650 current and former employees at its downtown headquarters.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Daily Beast, @steph_steinberg, @pierrefitter and @romenesko