Mediagazer: New U.S. TV network fuses news, satire for young Hispanics (Reuters)

7:05 PM ET, October 28, 2013

Top News:

Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? — Much of the speculation about the future of news focuses on the business model: How will we generate the revenues to pay the people who gather and disseminate the news? But the disruptive power of the Internet raises other profound questions …

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Keller vs Greenwald: Why Not Both?

Discussion: Politico, @sullydish, @dgardner and @joshuafoust

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They're in Theaters — Netflix made a splash this year by creating its own TV shows and delivering them over the Web. Now it's toying with the same idea for movies. — This summer, the company announced that it in addition …

Discussion: The Wrap and @samatlounge

Alex Stedman / Variety:

Theater Owners ‘Might Kill Movies,’ Warns Netflix's Sarandos — Content chief calls on studios to release big movies on Netflix day and date with theaters — Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos launched a blistering attack on theater owners for stifling innovation, warning in a speech Saturday that they “might kill movies.”

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times and The Verge

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Disney Show Will Appear First on App for Tablets — LOS ANGELES — A cat in a pink cowboy hat is leading Disney's television operation deeper into the Wild West of mobile viewing, where it hopes to connect with the company's core audience. — Noting that tablet computers like the iPad are increasingly the …

Discussion: Forbes, Home Media Magazine, @savvyauntie, Electronista, The Verge, bizjournals and AppNewser

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Hayley Romer Promoted to Publisher of The Atlantic — The Atlantic is announcing a leadership change today. Hayley Romer has been promoted to vp and publisher, leading ad efforts across its print and digital platforms. — Romer has served as associate publisher since May 2012 …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, MinOnline and FishbowlNY

Poynter:

Karen Dunlap will retire as Poynter's president — Karen Dunlap, who has led the Poynter Institute since 2003, announced to staff Monday she plans to retire in January. “We need to take some big steps,” Dunlap told Poynter's faculty and staff. “And I think it's time for somebody else to do that.”

Discussion: @juliemmoos and @mallarytenore

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

Vice Media to get deeper into news with live coverage — Change is coming to Vice Media, the rapidly growing Williamsburg-based multimedia empire that began as an alternative music weekly in Montreal. — In a telephone interview Wednesday, the company's chief creative officer Eddy Moretti told Capital …

Discussion: Bedford + Bowery

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

As Media Change, Fairness Stays Same — MOST of the time, Michael Powell writes the Gotham column for the news pages of The Times, in which his liberal politics — that's his own description — may be understood, though not made explicit. — But occasionally, the veteran reporter turns …

Discussion: @raju, @jswatz, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @digiphile and @mathewi

Jim Romenesko:

The Politico culture explained — “This place isn't for everyone,” Politico CEO Jim VandeHei tells his employees in a memo about the expanding news organization's culture. “People who thrive here are highly talented, self-motivated doers who are brimming with passion and a desire to win.”

Discussion: @johngapper, @brianstelter, @niemanlab, @moorehn, @justin_fenton, @romenesko and @claremalone

Reuters:

Britain's Cameron says may act against newspapers over spy leaks — Oct 28 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday his government was likely to act to stop newspapers publishing what he called damaging leaks from former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden unless they began to behave more responsibly.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, @ggreenwald, @dailyquail, @markwatts_1, @peterjukes, @ian_fraser, @mlcalderone, @ncilla, @ggreenwald, @latentexistence, @mattblaze, @kenroth, @pbump, @auerfeld and The Huffington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jill Abramson: Politico piece was ‘shoddy,’ ‘nutty’ — In the keynote talk at the Journalism & Women Symposium's Conference and Mentoring Project in Essex, Vt., Saturday, New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson talked about the reaction of women journalists to an April Politico piece that said she was …

Discussion: @carloslozadawp

David Carr / New York Times:

Gawker Kicks Open the Closet, but Its Disclosure Barely Reverberates — What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared? — On Tuesday, Gawker, the news and gossip blog based in Manhattan, reached back to March for an item about the anchor, Shepard Smith …