Mediagazer: Outbrain Adds $35 million in Latest Fundraising (Garett Sloane/Adweek)

8:25 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 — Bob Lewis has the characteristics of the kind of reporter who typically survives a big, though unintentional, mistake. — Yet he, along with an editor, was fired from his job with the Associated Press this week …

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, @futureboy, @niemanlab, @moorehn, @max_read, @pogue, Mediaite, Business Insider, ZDNet, VatorNews, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Ryan Tate / Wired:

With David Pogue Hire, Yahoo Joins the Journalism Investment Boom — Following in the footsteps of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and venture capital firm Accel Partners, Yahoo has pumped new money into original journalism, launching a website with prominent tech reviewer David Pogue.

Discussion: CNET, Bloomberg, Softpedia News and Marketing Land

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Reverses Stance — Again — On Violent Viral Video — Sometimes figuring out the fine line between free expression and overly objectionable content is harder than you'd think. — Just ask Facebook, which on Tuesday reversed a stance it took just 24 hours previously and removed …

Discussion: The Verge

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

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, @dabeard, @martinepowers, @bostonangela, cir.ca and FishbowlNY

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and GigaOM

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, Softpedia News and AppleInsider

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 …

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, @melissalyttle, @deftlyinane, Gawker, Gizmodo, @chrisyandle, @amorrissey, @mittense, @editorialiste, @thestalwart, @joemfbrown, @penlovespaper and @chrisremo

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

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Sets Up $1 Billion Credit Line, MoPub Had $6.5M In Revenue In First Half Of 2013 — Twitter has just announced via an S-1 amendment that “the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement with certain lenders which provides for a $1.0 billion revolving unsecured credit facility maturing on October 22, 2018.”

Discussion: AllThingsD and Los Angeles Times

Matt Hardigree / Jalopnik:

The New York Times Is Shutting Down Its Car Blog — The New York Times is shutting down its Wheels car blog, edited by Jalopnik alum/Italian suit model Ben Preston, and will replace it with more in-depth car features and stories according to a memo I just read. They'll also get rid of that stupid logo we all hate.