Mediagazer: As Nikki Finke Exits Deadline, Dispute Over Her Plan for A New Site Grows (Ben Fritz/Speakeasy)

1:15 AM ET, November 6, 2013

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Deadline.com And Nikki Finke Parting Ways — Despite attempts by all to have it go otherwise, Nikki Finke will no longer be leading Deadline Hollywood, and she will not be writing weekend box office or filing stories going forward. This is an emotional and painful parting of the ways for us.

Discussion: LA Observed, The Wrap, Gawker, Variety, FishbowlNY, @nikkifinke, @nikkifinke, @popcornhaas and @samontv

Ben Fritz / Speakeasy:

As Nikki Finke Exits Deadline, Dispute Over Her Plan for A New Site Grows — Hollywood journalist Nikki Finke has parted ways with the website she founded, Deadline.com, but her nearly year-long feud with its owner Jay Penske isn't over. — Ms. Finke was let go by Mr. Penske on Tuesday …

Discussion: @benfritz

Bill Carter / New York Times:

CBS News Defends Its ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report — CBS News, under fire from critics who dispute details in a “60 Minutes” report on the Benghazi attacks last year that was broadcast on Oct. 27, aggressively defended the report's accuracy on Tuesday and the account of its main interview subject.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @ericboehlert, @romenesko, @jesslevin and The Huffington Post

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

TV Investments Drag on 21st Century Fox Profits — In its first three months as a separate company, 21st Century Fox produced revenue that surpassed analysts' expectations, but its profit came in slightly below expectations, reflecting the company's investments in new programming that it says will pay off over the long term.

Discussion: Capital New York, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, 21cf.com and Fox Business

Joshua Goldman / CNET:

Streamnation expands to streaming, sharing your movie, TV show collections — The service that's built for storing, streaming, and sharing your photos and videos is now looking to become a streaming media hub. — Remember when you used to let friends and family borrow a DVD?

Discussion: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Next Web and The Verge

Allan Sloan / Fortune:

How being a tax dummy cost The New York Times $60M — A mistake made 20 years ago cost the Times big during the sale of The Boston Globe. — The New York Times Co's (NYT) purchase of The Boston Globe for more than $1 billion twenty years ago has turned out to be among the worst single newspaper acquisitions in history.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer in talks with Ryan Seacrest about creating original content — Yahoo's Mayer Now Chit-Chatting With Ryan Seacrest About Content Ideas — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is tearing her way through the content celebrities, it seems. — First, news star Katie Couric.

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

AP Taps MediaVoice For Native Ads — The Associated Press is bringing native advertising to its Web site, mobile site and mobile app in partnership with Polar, which operates a native advertising platform for digital publishers called MediaVoice. — The deal allows the AP to deliver native ads …

David Zax / Fast Company:

A Black Media Brand Relaunches, While Sticking To Its Roots — Today, TheRoot.com, the website focusing on African-American news and commentary, unveiled a comprehensive redesign, nearly five years after the Washington Post Company-owned website first launched in 2008.

Discussion: Media Wire Daily

Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:

Fred Hiatt Offered to Quit Jeff Bezos's Washington Post — Jeff Bezos has yet to truly make a mark on his latest acquisition, The Washington Post. In some ways, that shouldn't be a surprise: The deal closed only a month ago. But that doesn't mean that there hasn't been some potential for a shake-up.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and FishbowlDC

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

AOL's big Adap.tv buy ignites sales, but it whiffs on profit — If you ask AOL, the third quarter was all about revenue, revenue, revenue — never mind that big miss on profit. In the latest three-month period, the online media company grew advertising dollars at double the rate it did the quarter before …

Discussion: TechCrunch, AdAge, Crain's New York Business, VentureBeat, FishbowlNY, Street Fight, Business Insider and @sai

Reuters: AOL ad sales rise, but Patch weighs on profit

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Netflix Gets Back Into the Movie Business: Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal? — Netflix is back in the movie business after picking up exclusive distribution rights to “The Square,” Jehane Noujaim's award-winning documentary about recent political tumult in Egypt.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and CNET

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Editor of The Sun: ‘BuzzFeed is the best thing on the internet’ — David Dinsmore, editor of The Sun, on why he likens BuzzFeed to The Sun, and how the news outlet is working to better understand its audience — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Discussion: Press Gazette

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is AOL Finally Making Money From Content? Maybe! — One of the perennially weird things about AOL is that it's a content company that doesn't make money from content: All of its actual profit has come from subscribers to its old Internet-access business, which still has 2.5 million customers,* who pay $20 a month to get online.

Discussion: @dkthomp and @pkafka