Mediagazer: New York Times Departures Heighten Concerns About Staff Retention (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

12:00 AM ET, November 13, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Departures Heighten Concerns About Staff Retention — NEW YORK — When New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson was in negotiations this past summer to keep stats guru Nate Silver at the paper, his agent remarked that his client was “the prettiest girl at the party.”

Discussion: Politico, @tomgara, Big News Network.com, FishbowlDC, @sulliview, @dkthomp, @fmanjoo and @fmanjoo

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ masthead 'hasn't had a chance to huddle yet' about Stelter's exit

Discussion: Variety, Erik Wemple, @howardkurtz, @juliebosman, @wjcarter, @keachhagey, Media & Entertainment, Politico, The Daily Caller, Broadcasting & Cable, @hblodget, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, The Wrap, Beet.TV, @thestalwart and Media Law Prof Blog

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Brian Stelter Jumps To CNN To Host ‘Reliable Sources’

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Editor of Times Magazine to Step Down at Year's End — Hugo Lindgren, editor of The New York Times Magazine, told his staff in a brief meeting on Tuesday that he would be leaving The Times at year's end. — In the noon meeting, attendees said that Mr. Lindgren choked up and described the last few days as difficult.

Discussion: @kateaurthur, @sternbergh, @mysecondempire, mUmBRELLA, The Wrap and Poynter

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Abramson to name Lindgren's replacement by year's end; inside and outside candidates being considered

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
14 People Who Should Run The ‘New York Times’ Mag

Discussion: @markarms, FishbowlNY, @moorehn, @alexmleo, Hollywood Reporter, Capital New York and @morningmoneyben

Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:

“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap — “I didn't even have to go into the room to see who it was,” a man calling himself Morgan Jones told Lara Logan, of “60 Minutes,” on October 27th, remembering how he had glimpsed a body through the glass in a door.

Discussion: Personanondata, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues, Erik Wemple and Variety

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

CBS News and reporter Lara Logan face brutal criticism on flawed Benghazi report — Lara Logan, CBS News' hard-charging chief foreign correspondent, has repeatedly risked her life in pursuit of the story. She's been shot at, arrested, blindfolded by militiamen, and physically assaulted …

Discussion: @katrinanation, @michaeldweiss, @amyargetsinger, @toddgregory, @rlocker12, @saralibby and @jayrosen_nyu

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Dish-DirecTV Merger ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense,’ Says Ergen — DirecTV's CEO may believe regulators would never allow a merger of the two big American satellite TV companies, but Charlie Ergen's ardor for such a deal remains undimmed. — “There's obviously a business case that [consolidation] …

Discussion: Media Money …, Reuters, The Verge, Broadcasting & Cable, @forbestech, @jeffbercovici and Online NewsHour

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Swings to Third-Quarter Profit, Adds Subs

Discussion: MediaPost, The Wrap, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Deadline.com

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Why we are moving our media coverage over to Gigaom — This is the last post we'll publish on paidContent as we move our media coverage under one Gigaom umbrella and a new Media channel. — As one of the last remaining independent tech media startups, we have a keen interest in the future of the media business.

Discussion: @thestalwart, @mathewi, @msbrumfield, @sdkstl, @sdkstl, @sdkstl, @rafat and WebProNews

The Huffington Post:

Richard Cohen Defends Column: ‘Word Racist Is Truly Hurtful’ — Richard Cohen says that his latest piece was not intended to be and shouldn't be read as racist. — “The word racist is truly hurtful,” he told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. “It's not who I am. It's not who I ever was.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again. — There's not much need to debate cord-cutting anymore: The pay-TV industry is losing subscribers. — But we still don't have a handle on the rate of loss, nor the reason for that loss. — If you're in the pay-TV business …

Discussion: AdAge and @garyfung

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Hoda Kotb inks new contract with NBC News to stay with “Today” — NBC News has signed anchor Hoda Kotb to a new, multi-year contract, Capital has learned. — The deal will ensure that Kotb remains as the co-host of the fourth hour of “Today,” alongside Kathie Lee Gifford.

Discussion: The Wrap and The Huffington Post

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Wants to Be Offered With Pay-TV Bundles — Online Video Outlet Could Be Centralized Location for Full Seasons of Shows … Online video outlet Hulu LLC is in early discussions with several pay-TV providers about potential partnerships, said people familiar with the situation …

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Nikki Finke demands $3.5M for breakup with Deadline — The divorce battle between Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke and publishing entrepreneur Jay Penske is starting to look like 1979's “Kramer vs. Kramer.” — The two are locked in a growing legal fight over whether Finke is entitled …

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Live Nation Said to Be Near Deal for Management Companies — Live Nation Entertainment, the giant concert company that includes Ticketmaster, is in advanced negotiations to buy the management companies behind U2 and Madonna, according to several people with direct knowledge of the talks.

Discussion: Financial Times, @djd, @pkafka and hypebot

Jim Wyss / Miami Herald:

Miami Herald reporter Jim Wyss recounts his 48 hours in Venezuelan custody — I was wearing a bulletproof vest, lying flat in the backseat of an unmarked armored car and being escorted by three heavily armed men when I started to worry. At that point I had been in the custody …

Discussion: Poynter and The Newspaper Guild

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Ex-Future staff in £90k crowdfund bid to set up own title — The team - all former members of staff at Future - aim to launch Linux Voice magazine early next year, in competition with Future's own Linux Format title — Credit: By James Cridland on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Discussion: BetaNews

Jim Romenesko:

E.W. Scripps restructures its Washington bureau, acquires DecodeDC … E.W. Scripps announced this afternoon that its newspaper-focused Washington bureau “will be reconfigured to be a leading investigative storyteller on all the Scripps-owned media platforms — television, digital and print.”

Discussion: E.W Scripps Company