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8:40 PM ET, November 13, 2013

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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” …
New York Times:
Stand-Alone Food Section Faces Demise In Bay Area  —  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.
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.
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Dylan Love / Business Insider:
Gawker Chief Nick Denton Says He Has A Cure For Internet Trolls  —  In conversation with Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget at Ignition 2013 in New York, Gawker Media boss Nick Denton laid out how to get love — and avoid trolls — on his extremely popular blog network.
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, FishbowlNY and @jeffjarvis
Erik Wemple:
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
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Roundup: Staff Departures, an ‘Incorrect Promise’ and More  —  Here's a roundup of items from all over that may be interesting to Times readers and to the readers of this blog:  —  1. The Great Exodus?  Several news sites, including The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast …
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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
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?
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
CBS opens ‘journalistic review’ into controversial ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi report  —  CAIRO — When “60 Minutes,” perhaps the United States' premier news program, apologized for featuring a security contractor in its report on Benghazi whose story turned out to be a lie, it said had been “misled.”
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 …
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: @toddmundt
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
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 …
Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:
China's Baidu Faces Suits Over Video Piracy  —  Online-Video and Film Companies Seek $50 Million From Internet-Search Firm  —  BEIJING—A group of Chinese media companies accused Baidu Inc. of piracy, filing litigation that signals the maturation of an online-video industry where illegal copying once was rampant.
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
The Sun to introduce ‘dedicated department’ for social media  —  The new department will power ‘24/7’ social media activity, and consist of half a dozen social managers and a new social editor  —  The Sun is to set up a “dedicated department” for social media, which will consist of a team …
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Lonely Planet Acquires Mobile Travel App TouristEye  —  Earlier this year, we wrote about TouristEye, a mobile app for planning trips and discovering new things to do while traveling.  Today the startup is announcing that it has been acquired by travel heavyweight Lonely Planet …
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.
Lindsey Hilsum / Channel 4 News:
War and journalists: why do we go?  —  The following is the text of a speech I gave on 12 November 2013 at St Bride's, the journalists' church on Fleet Street, during a service to commemorate the media in troubled times:  —  On August 21st I, like everyone else here, woke up to news of an attack in the suburbs of Damascus.
Discussion: @fieldproducer
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.
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
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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.
Michael Rondon / FOLIO:
The Hollywood Reporter Breaks Out New Style Vertical  —  Pret-a-Reporter to feature contextualized ecommerce integration.  —  The Hollywood Reporter has been aggressively expanding its product portfolio over the last eight months.  The group launched tech and indie channels in the spring …
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.
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, ABC News, Reuters and The Drum
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Guardian writer and number-cruncher Harry Enten goes to work for Nate Silver  —  Guardian writer and self-described number-cruncher Harry Enten is the latest to join Nate Silver's growing 538 franchise at ESPN.  —  He joins Carl Bialik, who is still writing a sports column for The Wall Street Journal …
Discussion: @forecasterenten
Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
Al Jazeera America At Three Months: Pundit Free, ‘Experts When Needed’  —  Al Jazeera America turns the ripe old age of three months next week.  So yesterday, TVNewser visited the channel's midtown Manhattan studio and got a status update from network president Kate O'Brian.
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
 
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