Mediagazer: E.W. Scripps restructures its Washington bureau, acquires DecodeDC (Jim Romenesko)

9:15 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, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, FishbowlDC, @sulliview, @dkthomp, Big News Network.com and @brianstelter

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

Angela Watercutter / Wired:

Netflix's New Look Is a Glimpse at the Future of TV — Netflix just announced a whole new browsing experience for users who access the service on more than half the devices that run it, from game consoles to smart TVs. On the surface it just looks like a sleek new interface upgrade …

Discussion: USA Today

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out slick new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes and game consoles — Netflix rolled out a big revamp of its user interface for smart TVs and connected devices Tuesday night, moving away from a grid of box shot covers towards a much more visual interface …

Discussion: Netflix US & Canada Blog, @dcaunt, AllThingsD, CNET, @dalmaer and Variety

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: Pressing Issues, Personanondata, The Huffington Post and Mother Jones

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CBS News and reporter Lara Logan face brutal criticism on flawed Benghazi report

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

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 …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

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, mUmBRELLA, @sternbergh, @mysecondempire, 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: bookforum.com, CNN, @markarms, FishbowlNY, Politico, @moorehn, @alexmleo and Capital New York

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries — Google has become so big that sometimes it's difficult to understand just how big it is. It's on course to do $60 billion in revenue this year, almost all of that from advertising. But how big is that in terms of the media it competes against for ad dollars?

Discussion: BGR

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

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 …

Discussion: @nikkifinke

Raphael Satter / Washington Post:

Scotland Yard pursuing a criminal investigation following intelligence leaks to the Guardian — LONDON — A specialist unit of Britain's biggest police force is pursuing a criminal investigation following the leak of classified intelligence material to the Guardian newspaper …

David Meyer / Gigaom:

On-demand photography outfit Scoopshot pulls in $3.9M to expand internationally — A lot of money is going into trying to disrupt the stock photography market - something investors hope will be possible through advances in the quality of smartphone cameras.

Discussion: Mobile Entertainment and PR Newswire UK

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: Bloomberg and E.W Scripps Company

John Reynolds / Guardian:

Independent's redesign lifts circulation — Relaunch of newspaper on Thursday 7 November led to rise in sales of around 3,000 compared to previous week — The Independent is understood to have enjoyed a circulation lift of around 3,000 copies on the day of its redesign …

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: @garyfung and AdAge

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