Mediagazer: Bloomberg Lays Off Staff in Sports and Culture (Christine Haughney/New York Times)

10:25 AM ET, November 19, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Bloomberg Lays Off Staff in Sports and Culture — Bloomberg News started laying off and reassigning employees on Monday, seeking to emphasize areas that promote growth and focus more on core subjects like finance and government. — Also on Monday, Bloomberg said that a reporter based …

Discussion: 10,000 Words, @pekingmike, The New York Observer, @coopnytimes, @comradewong, Talking Biz News, @henrycstewart and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Bloomberg Reporter At Center Of Controversy In China Has Left The Company — Mike Forsythe, the Bloomberg reporter who is at the center of a controversy about Bloomberg curtailing its investigative reporting has left the company. It had been previously reported that Forsythe had been suspended …

Discussion: Poynter

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Winkler's note to Bloomberg staff: We will grow in 2014 — Here is the message that Bloomberg editor in chief Matthew Winkler sent to the staff on Monday about its layoffs:

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:

What Will It Cost to Cover China? — The Chinese Communist Party generated hopeful headlines this month by acknowledging that it faces a time of reckoning: to prevent economic peril and rising unrest, the Party promised to overhaul the economy, to allow more parents to have two children instead of only one …

Discussion: Jack Shafer, Columbia Journalism Review, @suilee, @sarabethberman, @madhulikasikka, @newyorker, @colvinius, Guardian, The New York Observer, New York Times, Techdirt, USA Today and Poynter

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

OJR: An old web icon ends up repurposed as a spamblog — This is a cautionary tale — about what happened to what was once one of the most important websites about journalism on the Internet, and about what happens when you don't renew your domains on time.

Discussion: One Man and His Blog, @niemanlab, @mat, @jbenton, @dangillmor and @mathewi

John Paton / Digital First:

The Subscription Project - An Update — Back in February, I wrote about the various paid digital subscription projects underway at Digital First Media. — Some of our newspapers had what has become known as a traditional paywall. — Others, experimented with finding other forms of …

Discussion: Gigaom, LA Observed, Columbia Journalism Review, @gigaom, Mercury News, @joemurph, NetNewsCheck Latest, @scnewsdude, @mathewi, @inlandpress, @jesseholcomb, @stevebuttry and Poynter

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
As Digital First Media Announces Its Paywalls, 41% of US Dailies Will Soon Have Them

Discussion: @codybrown and Poynter

Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Maria Bartiromo Leaving CNBC For FBN — Breaking: Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business. — “After 20 years of groundbreaking work at CNBC, Maria Bartiromo will be leaving the company as her contract expires on November 24,” a CNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Atlantic Wire’ relaunches this morning as ‘The Wire’ — Website relaunches are notorious for creating headaches in the days and hours before they go live, between staff training, functionality testing and inevitable last minute design fixes. — But the relaunch of The Atlantic Wire …

Discussion: Adweek, The Wire, @angryblacklady, @attackerman, @bobbymacreports and @thewire

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower — Last month, Twitter quietly rolled out a new feature to give users the choice to receive private messages from any of their followers, but that option has now been removed.

Discussion: Fast Company, The Drum, Electronista and Engadget

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Deadline owner Jay Penske takes Nikki Finke to arbitration — The battle between entertainment journalist Nikki Finke and Jay Penske, the owner of Deadline Hollywood, the website she founded and has since left, has been turned up a notch. Late Monday, Penske Media Corp. (PMC) …

Discussion: @jbflint and Los Angeles Times

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

CNN's Don Lemon Getting 11 P.M. Timeslot Mon-Fri — Mediaite has learned through very reliable sources that CNN anchor Don Lemon will be getting his own program in the 11 P.M. hour at CNN. It will be a one-topic show tackling important issues of the day, either reported or vastly underreported, from Lemon's unique perspective.

Discussion: TVNewser and The Huffington Post

Steven Waldman / Knight Foundation:

New report on foundation funding of media shows focus on education and tools — Report on foundation funding for media ignites crucial discussion — As senior adviser to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Steven Waldman was the lead author of “Information Needs of Communities …

Discussion: @kljdavis and @knightfdn