Mediagazer: Jason Kilar Poaches Another Key Hulu Exec For ‘Fremont Project’ (Tim Peterson/AdAge)

4:00 PM ET, November 8, 2013

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Lara Logan Apologizes For Botched ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report, Says Show Will Issue Correction — In a humiliating retreat from a piece she had staunchly defended, “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan admitted on Friday morning that she and the news magazine had made a “mistake” …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, Variety, @juliebosman, Erik Wemple, @juliebosman, TVNewser, Poynter, Politico, Washington Post, @clarajeffery, @ryanchittum, @timothys and FishbowlNY

Erik Wemple:

Benghazi: First, ‘60 Minutes.’ Next, Fox News? — In her contrition today on “CBS This Morning,” Lara Logan discussed the credentials of the fellow, Dylan Davies, who had provided what now appears to be a bogus account about events at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Raw Story

New York Times:
Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi

Lynne Marek / Crain's Chicago Business:

Onion halts all print editions, turns entirely to digital “news” — The Onion is halting its print version in Chicago and its two other remaining markets with its Dec. 12 issue. The newsweekly was 25 years old and is survived by its website and a new creative service for advertisers.

Discussion: Slate, FishbowlNY, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Switch, bizjournals, Poynter, The Verge, Splitsider and The Huffington Post

Bhavya Dore / Hindustan Times:

Tina Brown, who edited New Yorker and Newsweek, doesn't read magazines anymore — Television is dead, the newsstand finished, editors weak and journalism is in a dark, uncertain place, says Tina Brown, the woman who edited the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Newsweek.

Discussion: The Wrap, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, @benjysarlin, @tcarmody, @sconsetcapital, @dylanbyers, @zekejmiller, @joepompeo, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Pastebin

Robert Andrews / Beet.tv:

Time Inc To Launch Mobile Video Content Channel — Soon to be spun out from Time Warner, magazine publisher Time Inc will launch a mobile-specific video brand by year's end. “You'll see something from over the next four to six weeks - a video-only offering in mobile,” …

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NPR's Brian Boyer on Building and Managing News Apps Teams — Process, hiring, and what it takes to make it in newsroom code — As part of our one-year anniversary series, we're interviewing news apps and interactive features editors about the history of their teams, the challenges they face …

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Jason Kilar Poaches Another Key Hulu Exec For ‘Fremont Project’ — The Fremont Project Said to Be Focused on Mobile Video — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is raiding the video service once again for talent. — This time he's bringing Hulu's VP-product Lonn Lee aboard his secretive startup The Fremont Project.

Discussion: Gigaom

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Nancy Gibbs promotes top lieutenants at ‘Time’ — Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs has moved up two of her lieutenants on the magazine's masthead. — Gibbs announced in a staff memo this morning that Michael Duffy and Radhika Jones have both been promoted to deputy managing editor.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines and FishbowlNY

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Google and Nielsen Partner on Online Campaign Ratings [Updated] — As part of the ongoing quest to get more TV dollars to Web video, buyers and sellers are suddenly in love with old school metrics like ratings and GRPs. Over the past year few months, many brands and agencies have been insisting …

Discussion: AdExchanger

Tim Carmody / Hazlitt:

What's Missing in Keller and Greenwald's Future of Journalism — Last week, Bill Keller did a funny thing. The former executive editor and current Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, as authoritative and oracular as he is moderate and guarded, opened up a space for pointed …

Discussion: @ggreenwald and @tcarmody

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

iHeartRadio Tops 40 Million Registered Users — iHeartRadio, Clear Channel's digital radio service, has today announced that it has topped 40 million registered users and 260 million downloads since relaunching in September 2011. Though the milestone is significant, it's worth noting …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal and MediaPost

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post plans Sunday edition of its free Express paper — Beginning Nov. 17, The Washington Post's free weekday commuter paper Express will begin delivering a Sunday edition to people who've opted in to Savings Now, the Post's lawn delivered advertorial product for nonsubscribers.

Paul Raeburn / Knight Science Journalism Tracker:

“Discovering” a new body part: one case study of bad science journalism on the Internet — New body part discovered? Yes, in 1879. — It was startling news, but an easy story to write: Scientists have discovered a new body part! Amazing, isn't it, that something could have eluded us since the time of Hippocrates?

Discussion: io9, @krelnik, @edyong209 and The Technology Chronicles

John Reynolds / Guardian:

Former BBC TV news head suggests axing BBC3 and 4 to focus on quality — Roger Mosey says ‘doing two channels very well’ could improve audience engagement and TV licence fee expenditure — The BBC's former editorial director and Olympics supremo Roger Mosey has suggested more of the BBC's licence fee …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Daily Mail and Telegraph

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Twitter's stock closes at $44.90 a share, up 73 percent on its first day — A more conservative approach than Facebook could lead to a big first day of gains — Twitter is set to hold its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The company has priced its stock at $26 a share.

Discussion: Businessweek, @marketwatch, @corytv, Forbes, Reuters, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forbes, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Kathryn Schulz / New York Magazine:
That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me: How Twitter Hijacked My Mind

Discussion: Gigaom, @david_dobbs, @justinwolfers, bookforum.com, @zimbalist, @clairecm, @nytimesbits, @edyong209, @dskok, @matthewteller and @bwrighted

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Marvel creating four superhero shows exclusively for Netflix, premiering in 2015 — Marvel is creating four live-action superhero series that will air exclusively on Netflix beginning in 2015. The first of the TV series will focus on Daredevil, while the following series will star Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, FilmDrunk, New York Times, App Advice and Inside TV