Mediagazer: Ex-Future staff in £90k crowdfund bid to set up own title (Rachel Bartlett/Journalism.co.uk)

4:55 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, @fmanjoo, @tomgara, @fmanjoo, FishbowlDC, @sulliview, @dkthomp and Big News Network.com

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

Discussion: @howardkurtz, @wjcarter, @juliebosman, @keachhagey, Variety, Erik Wemple, Media & Entertainment, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Broadcasting & Cable, Politico, The Huffington Post, @hblodget, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, The Wrap, Media Law Prof Blog and @thestalwart

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, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues and Variety

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

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

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, @markarms, FishbowlNY, Politico, @moorehn, @alexmleo and Capital New York

David Meyer / Gigaom:

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

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

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: The Next Web

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, Online NewsHour, @forbestech and @jeffbercovici

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

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

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

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, AllThingsD, CNET, Variety and @dalmaer

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: @putyourpawsdown, @pkafka, Financial Times, @djd, hypebot and @sterlewine

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 and The Wrap

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

Inside Ad Tech Fraud: Confessions of a Fake Web Traffic Buyer — Online advertising has a fraud problem. Millions of ad impressions are being served to bots and non-human traffic, and ad tech companies are doing little to stop it. Digiday spoke with a former publishing executive …