Mediagazer: Snow Fall and its ilk: Meant to be read or marveled at? (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

5:30 PM ET, November 4, 2013

Top News:

Steve Raabe / Denver Post:

Dean Singleton to retire from Denver Post owner MediaNews Group — MediaNews Group Inc., owner of The Denver Post, said Monday that founder and chairman, William Dean Singleton, 62, will retire ahead of the company's annual meeting in December. — Singleton will continue to serve as non-executive chairman of The Denver Post.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Twitter apologizes for blocking newspaper's URLs — Twitter's Andrew Fitzgerald apologized Monday to Philadelphia City Paper reporter Daniel Denvir for an episode last week when Twitter wasn't allowing users to access the paper's stories through tweeted URLs, Denvir told Poynter in a phone call.

Discussion: @kellymcb

Jim Romenesko:

Dayton Daily News memo: There will be nothing negative about CBS in our newspaper — In Dayton, Cox Media Group is integrating its print, TV (a CBS affiliate) and radio operations and using the slogan, “Come Together.” According to a memo that Dayton Daily News staffers received on Friday …

Discussion: The Wrap, @romenesko, @onthemedia and @davidfolkenflik

Press Gazette:

Glenn Mulcaire never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail, court told — The News of the World never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail messages, a court has heard. — Continuing his opening address at the phone-hacking trial, Andrew Edis conceded there was no evidence to support the claim carried in The Guardian.

Discussion: Variety

Telegraph:
Rebekah Brooks and assistant ‘spirited away’ archived notebooks

Discussion: Guardian, @courtnewsuk, Talking New Media and Press Gazette

Journalism.org:

Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Educated — Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Compared with the 30% of Americans who get news on Facebook …

Discussion: CNBC, VentureBeat, @knightfdn, Poynter, @charliespiering, @arimelber, The Switch, Talking Points Memo, @gillesklein, Mashable and @niemanfdn

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Texas Tribune is getting into sponsored content for a new online opinion section — The Texas Tribune will begin experimenting with sponsored content in 2014 with a site dedicated to both standard and paid opinion pieces. — TribTalk will be the Austin-based news nonprofit's answer …

Discussion: @niemanlab

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Breaking News Takes a New Approach to the Personalized News Feed — A News Feed That's Only Partly Personalized — If you're a news junkie, you're almost certainly on Twitter. And if you're a hard-core news junkie, then there's a very good chance that you're one of the 6.3 million people following …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, @rozzy and NewscastStudio

David Carr / New York Times:

With ‘Alpha House,’ Amazon Makes Bid for Living Room Screens and Beyond — Not long ago, I was on the set of a show about politics, Washington and a senator gone rogue. The set had all the trappings of a big-time television production, but it will be delivered not by broadcast or cable …

Discussion: CNET, Forbes, The Next Web, VideoNuze Analysis, @adamostrow and @brianstelter

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon' approach to find new TV hits could hold lessons for established media companies

Discussion: Amazon.com, Variety, Digits, @rmantri, @pkafka and @amolsharmawsj

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Snow Fall and its ilk: Meant to be read or marveled at? — Khoi Vinh, former design director of NYTimes.com, has a skeptical post up today on The Guardian's scrolly Snowden explainer and the broader post-Snow Fall rise of blowout article display. … Josh Kalven, Cody Brown, and David Sleight …

Discussion: Garcia Media and Guardian

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

60-70% of Forbes contributors earned $45,000 in the past year, says D'Vorkin — The Forbes digital content model and power of the long-tail — Chief product officer Lewis D'Vorkin outlines the business news outlet's approach online, where 50 per cent of its monthly traffic is to articles at least 30 days old

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and Talking Biz News

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

What to do with $250m in digital journalism? — Pierre Omidyar, Ebay's founder and now philanthropist, pledged $250m to a new investigative reporting venture. Starting a project of this magnitude from scratch isn't an everyday occurrence, leading us to wonder how it could look like?

Discussion: Pressthink, Guardian, @jayrosen_nyu, @dabeard and @raju

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

New FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Announces New Staff Appointments — As he's sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler put his first stamp on the office by naming new staffers who will help lead the commission that regulates broadcasting and telecommunications.

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Broadcasting & Cable

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Twitter Raises IPO Price Range And Analysts Approve — So much for Twitter being “the anti-Facebook” in its approach to going public. — The social messenging service has taken a page from its big blue rival, jacking up its price range in the final days before its share debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, DealBook, VentureBeat, AdAge, Bloomberg and Variety

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Area comedian named Fishbowl DC editor — Patrick Tutwiler, a Washington-based comedian, has been named editor of the media news and gossip site Fishbowl DC, following Betsy Rothstein's departure. — “You may have seen one of his stand up acts around the District, or more recently …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY and City Desk