Mediagazer: Editor of The Sun: ‘BuzzFeed is the best thing on the internet’ (Rachel Bartlett/Journalism.co.uk)

4:10 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: USA Today, Variety, The Wrap, LA Observed, @nikkifinke, @nikkifinke, Gawker, @popcornhaas, FishbowlNY and @samontv

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

Discussion: @ethanwsj, @benfritz and @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, @romenesko, @beychok, @ericboehlert, @jesslevin and The Huffington Post

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: @pkafka and @dkthomp

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
AOL's big Adap.tv buy ignites sales, but it whiffs on profit

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

Discussion: Forbes, New York Times and TechCrunch

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Profits at 21st Century Fox Hampered by TV Investments — Investments in new cable channels were a drag on 21st Century Fox's third-quarter profits, but total revenues still surpassed analysts' expectations. — In its first three months as a separate company, Fox reported on Tuesday …

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

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV Third-Quarter Earnings Rise, U.S. Sub Growth Accelerates

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Businessweek, New York Times, AdAge, nasdaq.com, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Deadline.com

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.

Discussion: @antderosa

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.

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: @hblodget and Press Gazette

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Washington Times Ends Rand Paul's Column After Plagiarism — Paul had written hundreds of articles for the paper. — Mark Wilson / Getty Images — The conservative Washington D.C. newspaper The Washington Times announced Tuesday it is ending Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's column …

Discussion: New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, Hot Air, Mediaite, CNN and The Wrap

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

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 …

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

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.