Mediagazer: Senators Introduce Bill to Curb Sports Blackouts (Katy Bachman/Adweek)

3:50 PM ET, November 13, 2013

Top News:

Hey, what about Politico's ‘brain drain’? — Politico last night warned of a “brain drain” at the New York Times: “In the past nine months, at least a dozen top reporters and editors have made for the exits.” — The perils of doing media coverage for Politico!

Discussion: Gawker, Politico and @dylanbyers

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

San Francisco Chronicle Plans to End Its Prized Food Section — In the food-obsessed Bay Area, The San Francisco Chronicle's food section has been as much of a city institution as the cable car, and to many San Franciscans, more useful. Over the years it has won many awards and developed a dedicated following among local readers.

Discussion: @qualityrye, @kimseverson, @pete_wells, Eater National and Grub Street New York

Bronwen Clune / Guardian:

So Twitter is ruining journalism? Really? — The Australian newspaper published an editorial referring to journalists using Twitter as a ‘path to ruin’. It couldn't be more wrong — There is no quicker way for old institutions to look irrelevant than to insist on their relevance.

Discussion: @jimbarrett

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Times’ ad exec announces ‘full native advertising platform,’ coming soon — The New York Times will launch a “full native advertising platform” in the next two to three months. — Meredith Kopit Levien, the Times' exec vice president of advertising, made the announcement during …

Discussion: AdAge and @jeffjarvis

Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

CBS opens ‘journalistic review’ into controversial ‘60 Minutes’ Bengazhi report — Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print — CAIRO — When “60 Minutes,” perhaps the United States' premier news program, apologized for featuring a security contractor in its report …

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, @nancyayoussef, NPR, Online NewsHour, National Review, @huffpostmedia, @peterfhart, @mlcalderone and Pressing Issues

Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:
“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap

Discussion: Poynter, Variety, The Huffington Post, Kirk LaPointe's …, Personanondata, Pressing Issues and Washington Post

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: Big News Network.com, Forbes and BGR

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Nick Denton Denies Rumor of Gawker And Business Insider Merger — Rumors of a merger between Business Insider and Gawker that made the rounds this morning have been greatly exaggerated. — “We had breakfast, as we regularly do. I admire Henry Blodget, Joe Weisenthal and Business Insider's editorial management.

Discussion: @johnjcook, @jeffjohnroberts and @stevekovach

Dylan Love / Business Insider: Gawker Chief Nick Denton Says He Has A Cure For Internet Trolls

Erik Wemple:

Another CBS News story comes under attack — There may never be a more classic line in the pantheon of empty boasts by competitive news organizations. On Monday night, CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson came up with what looked like a significant story: “Memo warned of “limitless” …

Discussion: @simonmaloy, @dangillmor, @jayrosen_nyu, Post Politics and The Daily Caller

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

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

Chris Hughes / The New Republic:

A Year and a Half Later... What's new at The New Republic — What's new at The New Republic — Today we are launching The New Republic's company blog, New Republic Home News. From time to time, we will use this space to give readers a sense of what's going on inside the company.

Discussion: Poynter, @niemanlab and @rmantri

Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

Don't Panic! The ‘Times’ Is Losing Staff, But It Will Be Fine — In August, reporting an article about The New York Times' future, I spoke to Sam Sifton, the former national editor now in charge of various nascent digital initiatives that the paper hopes will allow it to secure more paying customers.

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal, Politico, The Daily Beast, Capital New York, New York Times, Yahoo News, @markleibovich, @emilybell, bookforum.com and The Huffington Post

Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why so serious? Maybe because data shows news stories can get shared just as often as lighter fare — Editor's note: Our friends at NPR Digital Services, Eric Athas and Teresa Gorman, crunched the numbers on how public radio stories were shared on Facebook and found some encouraging results.

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Former Rolling Stone Editor Eric Bates Joins Omidyar-Greenwald Venture — Eric Bates, the former executive editor of Rolling Stone, is joining the new media organization being launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and journalist Glenn Greenwald. — According to a post from Omidyar about NewCo …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

CBS Corp. CEO Talks Time Warner Cable Dispute, Netflix Competition — Leslie Moonves also says TV is a better business than film and discusses “pre-historic” thinking about retrans fees, why only ESPN should get paid more than CBS and how his wife binges on “Game of Thrones.”

Discussion: Deadline.com

Jeff Jarvis / Medium:

CMS as Media Salvation. Not. … Salmon thus accomplishes the almost impossible, writing an ode to the content management system as he argues that Vox Media, Business Insider, Gawker Media, Buzzfeed, Aol, Glam, and this very medium, Medium, are fighting for dominance with CMSes as their weapons of mass disruption.

Discussion: BtoB Magazine Online, Talking Points Memo and @chanders

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Why Lockhart Steele Sold Curbed to Vox — Digital media startup Vox Media, parent to SB Nation, The Verge and Polygon, will acquire the Curbed suite of blogs — Curbed, Eater, Racked — in a deal that was reported to have been in the neighborhood of $20-$30 million.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Clearleap Raises $20 Million From Susquehanna To Make TV More Multiplatform — Clearleap builds software infrastructure that helps content owners, distributors, and aggregators to make TV and movies available online and on a wide array of devices. While it's spent the last several years …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

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: MediaPost, multichannel.com/rss, bizjournals, CNET, Advanced Television, TBI Vision, DSLreports, Variety, The Next Web, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Verge

Nick Turner / Bloomberg:

Scripps Howard News Service Will Cease Operation After 96 Years — E.W. Scripps Co. (SSP:US)'s Scripps Howard News Service, which fed syndicated stories to papers across the U.S. since World War I, plans to shut down, becoming the latest symbol of readers' shift away from print media.

Discussion: @sfnick, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Big News Network.com and E.W Scripps Company

Matt Waite / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What new FAA plans will mean to the future of drone journalism — Editor's note: If you've been at a journalism conference over the past year — or stood near the right Midwestern riverbed at the right time— you've probably heard about drone journalism. That's the idea that small unmanned …

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

More Time Inc. Sites to Run Sponsored Posts Through Native-Ad Server — Sharethrough to Serve Ads on Real Simple and Health Magazines' Sites — Time Inc. is expanding its use of native-ad server Sharethrough to run some sponsored articles on its desktop and mobile websites, Sharethrough said Wednesday.

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

Senators Introduce Bill to Curb Sports Blackouts — Never underestimate a lawmaker's desire to make sure football games get aired in his market. — Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), two lawmakers who have been outspoken on sports blackouts …

Discussion: ZDNet and Radio & Television …

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 …

Discussion: @digiday, Beyond Search, AdExchanger, @benkunz, New York Times, Business Insider and MarketingVox News & Trends

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn Kicks Off Its Pulse Integration — For the world's largest professional network, content is king. No surprise, then, that LinkedIn has fully integrated social newsreader app Pulse into its mobile and Web properties. — That means that after downloading and opening Pulse for iOS or Android …

Discussion: Official LinkedIn Blog, ReadWrite, VatorNews and TechCrunch

Reuters:

Rebekah Brooks Was Hacking Victim Herself, Court Told — LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of Britain's News of the World, on trial for phone-hacking, was herself repeatedly targeted for voicemail interception by the private investigator working for her tabloid, a London court heard on Wednesday.

Discussion: UPI, Reuters, The Drum and ABC News