Mediagazer: The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition (emptywheel)

12:30 AM ET, November 16, 2013

Top News:

Forbes Media Is Working With Bankers to Sell Company — Forbes, Deutsche Bank Explore Options on Magazine — Forbes Media LLC, the closely held publisher founded by the family of former U.S presidential candidate Steve Forbes, is exploring a sale after getting interest from potential buyers.

Felix Salmon:

The financial-media rollup strategy — Financial news is a classic ripe-for-disruption industry. It generally makes its money by selling expensive subscriptions to the price-insensitive, but that model won't last forever: it's never been harder to find anybody under the age of 40 who pays for such things.

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @mathewi and @moorehn

Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:

Forbes staff receives memo confirming company is ‘[testing] the waters regarding a sale’ — Confirming an alert from Bloomberg News, Forbes Media President and CEO Mike Perlis just sent a memo to staff that says the company is looking at offers. — We'll have more soon: on Twitter …

Discussion: Poynter and Media Money …

emptywheel:

The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition — On the first page of a WaPo story on an Eric Holder speech, it said this. … Based on that, I think, a slew of journalists are reporting that DOJ will not prosecute Glenn Greenwald. — Then click the link: — Screen shot 2013-11-15 at 8.51.55 PM

Discussion: @dangillmor

Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:

Greenwald won't be prosecuted based on current information, U.S. attorney general says — Justice is reviewing criminal cases that used surveillance evidence gathered under FISA — The Justice Department is conducting a comprehensive review of all criminal cases in which the government …

Discussion: Techdirt, @dangillmor, @jayrosen_nyu, @kgosztola, @washingtonpost, @7im, @emptywheel, @raju and @jcstearns

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Eric Holder May Have Just Toppled the First Domino in Ending NSA Surveillance

Discussion: Guardian

Jack Shafer:

Does anyone still work at the ‘New York Times’? — Recent defections of talent from the New York Times — Nate Silver, David Pogue, Jeff Zeleny, Richard Berke, Brian Stelter, Matt Bai, et al. — have unjelled the media firmament, according to Politico media columnist Dylan Byers.

Discussion: @dangillmor, @brianstelter, @bydanielvictor, Politico, @karaswisher, @palafo, @pkafka, @yinkawrites, @carloslozadawp, @jackshafer and @edmundlee

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: ‘My days of hacking are done’ — Hammond calls his 10-year sentence a ‘vengeful, spiteful act’ by US authorities eager to put a chill on political hacking — Jeremy Hammond, the Anonymous hacktivist who released millions of emails relating …

Discussion: Wired, Forbes, VentureBeat, @declanm, @trevortimm, Gizmodo Australia, Rolling Stone, @wikileaks, CNET, @janetreitman, @pacolebel, The Verge, Electronista, Salon, TechCrunch, Trust.org, Associated Press, @chrisdannen, @kliphscurlock, @edpilkington and RT

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

Discussion: The Sparrow Project, Guardian, Daily Dot, VentureBeat, The Atlantic Wire, Co.Labs, @dangillmor, Firedoglake, @hypercosmology, @a_greenberg, @ioerror, NYT Bits, @rt_america, @douglaslucas, @wikileaks, @ericjaffa and @lifewisenews

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

‘The Simpsons’ Lands $750 Mil Cable, VOD Syndication Pact with FXX — Deal for 530-plus episodes of enduring Fox toon marks largest off-network sale ever — Homer and Co. are in rolling in dough: Fox's Twentieth Century Fox TV and Twentieth TV have set a massive first-ever cable syndication …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Deadline.com, The Verge, Speakeasy, AdAge, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and @thefilmstage

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

What if Contently bought ProPublica? — That's a crazy question. It sounds stupid. It may be stupid. — In fact, let me just go ahead and pre-package a tweet for those among us who have their outrage-phasers set to Reflex: … But bear with me. There might not yet be a serious case …

Discussion: @traviskorte, @dicktofel and Forbes

Michael Rondon / Folio:

The Atlantic, Reddit Partner on AMA Series — Creators hope experimental video series is a way to drive engagement. — The Atlantic has been gradually expanding its use of video over the last two years, relying mostly on curation, but is delving into original content more aggressively of late.

Stephanie M. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:

Raul Ramirez, pioneering journalist, dies at 67 — Raul Ramirez, whose tough-nosed reporting and inspiring mentorship made him a defining force in Bay Area journalism, died Friday at his Berkeley home. He was 67. Mr. Ramirez's death was announced by KQED Public Radio, where he had worked for 22 years.

Discussion: KQED News Fix, Mercury News, @johndankosky, @kvox, @acarvin, @markkatches, @nextgenradio, @newsbynight, @steve_katz and @lkramer

New York Times:

British Press Freedom Under Threat — Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Discussion: Guardian, @miketheharris, @wmfurney, @kramdas, @nytimescohen and @lukeharding1968

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust

Discussion: Press Gazette and @hackedoffhugh

Arti Patel / Folio:

Businessweek Drops Biggest Issue Since 1999 — Nearly half of the total advertisers for the issue are new to the title. — Bloomberg Businessweek is set to drop its biggest issue since 1999 on newsstands next week. The magazine's latest issue, hitting newsstands Nov. 18, will have 212 total pages, 111 pages of which feature ads.

Discussion: Business Wire and Talking Biz News

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Trouble with ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi ‘review’ — POLITICO has learned that Al Ortiz, an executive producer for special events at CBS News, is conducting the “journalistic review” into the controversial “60 Minutes” report on Benghazi — a fact that spokespeople at both CBS and “60 Minutes” declined to disclose.

Discussion: @ericboehlert, The Huffington Post, @mlcalderone and @dylanbyers

Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:

Election reporting lessons from @redistrict, a Twitter-savvy analyst at Cook Political Report — How @Redistrict helped get Virginia's votes counted — CHARLESTON, SC — A week and a half after Election Day, the outcome of Virginia's race for attorney general remains not quite settled …

Discussion: North Jefferson News …

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Lunch with the FT: Henry Blodget — A decade after being banned from Wall Street, the former internet analyst now runs a business website. He talks about redemption, regrets and market madness — ©James Ferguson — According to family legend, Henry Blodget's great-grandfather …

Discussion: PandoDaily and @hblodget

Brian Abelson:

The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement — This is the second in a series of two posts about pageviews. This post details some research I've conducted on the promotional correlates of the metric, while the previous post discussed the sometimes apocalyptic tone …