Mediagazer: Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again. (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

8:50 PM ET, November 12, 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: FishbowlDC, Big News Network.com, @sulliview, @dkthomp, @fmanjoo and @fmanjoo

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Times’ masthead 'hasn't had a chance to huddle yet' about Stelter's exit — With Brian Stelter heading to CNN, who will take over The New York Times' TV news beat? — “No successor yet,” media editor Bruce Headlam told Capital. — Stelter's move to CNN has been percolating since the summer …

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

Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
I'm joining @CNN as the network's senior media correspondent and the host of “Reliable Sources.”

Discussion: @brianstelter, @brianstelter and Poynter

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

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

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

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

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, Broadcasting & Cable, @jeffbercovici, The Verge, @forbestech 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.

Discussion: Slate, Gawker, The Wrap, Guardian, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Boing Boing, @huffpostmedia, The Week, @weymouthk, The Raw Story, @tcarmody, The Atlantic Online, @jackshafer, @tcarmody, theGrio, Pressing Issues and TheBlaze.com

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.”

E.W Scripps Company:
Scripps acquires Kickstarter-funded DecodeDC

Discussion: @jbenton

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

Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:

Bloomberg on Bloomberg News' China reporting: ‘Nobody thinks we are wusses’ — Asked today about a New York Times report that Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler has cut stories that were critical of the Chinese regime, Michael Bloomberg denied it, while maintaining that he's uninvolved in the company's affairs.

Discussion: New York Times and Politicker

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Michael Bloomberg's post-mayoral day-job will be at Bloomberg View

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

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, @pkafka, @djd and hypebot

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 Huffington Post

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Vice Media Bulks Up News Division — Company With Knack for Reaching Young Adults Ads More Journalists — Vice Media Inc., known for its edgy, youth-oriented online and TV programming, is more than doubling the size of its news operations, the latest sign that digital-media outlets see growth potential in news.

Discussion: Gigaom, @gabbystern, @manoushz and @kobrako

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

Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:

At newspapers, photographers feel the brunt of job cuts — Citing “new technologies” and “economic realities,” the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., laid off its four remaining staff photographers earlier this month, joining the growing ranks of newspapers that are shrinking or eliminating their photography staffs.

Discussion: PetaPixel, @latimesphotos, Poynter, The Newspaper Guild, @dzalcman and The Huffington Post