Mediagazer: America's Media Guzzling Ways (Emma Bryce/The Connectivist)

3:33 AM ET, November 9, 2013

Top News:

Edward Wong / International New York Times:

Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China — BEIJING — The decision came in an early evening call to four journalists huddled in a Hong Kong conference room. On the line 12 time zones away in New York was their boss, Matthew Winkler, the longtime editor in chief of Bloomberg News.

Discussion: @davidfolkenflik, @benparr and @tomjolly

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Simon & Schuster pulling Benghazi book — The publisher for Dylan Davies, the source of “60 Minutes” controversial Benghazi report, announced on Friday that they are pulling his book “in light of information” brought to their attention since its publication.

Discussion: TVNewser, GalleyCat, The Huffington Post, Gawker and Mother Jones

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Fox News Stands By Its Benghazi Reporting — While “60 Minutes” has apologized for and admitted that its Benghazi report that used the supposed “eyewitness” account of British security officer Dylan Davies was a mistake, Fox News, which also used Davies' account in its stories about the attack …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan Apologizes For Botched ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report, Says Show Will Issue Correction

Andrew Rosati / MiamiHerald.com:

Venezuelan authorities detain Miami Herald reporter — CARACAS — Jim Wyss, the Miami Herald's Andean bureau chief, was detained by Venezuelan authorities Thursday while reporting on the country's chronic shortages and looming municipal elections. Wyss remained in custody Friday afternoon.

Discussion: USA Today, ABC News, @agyllenhaal, @mcclatchydc, @timjohnson4, New York Times, Kirk LaPointe's<br … and Riptide 2.0

MediaPost:

FCC OKs Media General-New Young Broadcasting Merger — The FCC gave approval to Media General to merge with New Young Broadcasting Holding Co, Inc. Media General expects to close on the transaction Nov. 12. The FCC approved Media General's applications seeking consent to transfer …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, The Roanoke Times, Broadcasting & Cable, Poynter and TVSpy

Emma Bryce / The Connectivist:

America's Media Guzzling Ways — What amounts to 14 feet of books, tightly stacked and spread across the entire continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii? Answer: the amount of media data, measured in printed text, that Americans consumed last year. — That's 6.9 zettabytes—6.9 million-million gigabytes—to be exact.

Discussion: Beyond Search

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 New York Observer, @sconsetcapital, @tcarmody, @dylanbyers, @joepompeo, @zekejmiller, Pastebin, FishbowlNY, @benjysarlin, @abeaujon and The Huffington Post

Peter Bart / Variety:

Heads Keep Rolling in Hollywood — Executive body count stirs fears as conglomerates realign their entertainment strategy — From the time the first movie studios were founded, Wall Street has viewed the entertainment business somewhat like the Tea Party views Washington: Spending is too high, ambitions are too grandiose.

Discussion: @iainsmith

Businessweek:

Netflix Stock's High Flying Makes Some Folks Queasy — Netflix (NFLX) Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings warned in July that it takes “a strong stomach” to invest in the world's largest video subscription company. He wasn't kidding. After tripling in value in the year's first nine months …

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, Folio, Gizmodo, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, The Switch, VentureBeat, bizjournals, The Verge, Poynter and The Huffington Post

Source:

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 …

Discussion: @jeremybowers and @kelseyproud

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Music Service Spotify To Secure $200m US Deal — Spotify, the fast-growing digital music-streaming service, is in talks with one of the most prominent technology investors in the US about a new funding round expected to raise more than £100m. — Sky News can reveal that Spotify …

Discussion: Gigaom and hypebot