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12:30 AM ET, November 20, 2013

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The evolution of Bloomberg News — Yesterday was a big day for layoffs over at Bloomberg, and Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke has the official memo from editor-in-chief Matt Winkler. In typical Bloomberg style, the defenestrations seem to be taking place in much the same way as they would on Wall Street …

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @pawelmorski, @jkbloodtreasure, @michaelroston, @comradewong, @preetatweets, Gannett Blog, @eisingerj, @joepompeo, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, The New York Observer and Melville House Books

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Fear And Anxiety At Bloomberg TV

Discussion: @mlcalderone

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Michael Forsythe out at Bloomberg News

Discussion: Poynter, Jack Shafer, Sinosphere, Business Insider and @pekingmike

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:
What Will It Cost to Cover China?

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New Yorker, Kirk LaPointe's …, @timkarr, @suilee, @colvinius, @sarabethberman, @madhulikasikka, @newyorker and New York Times

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Winkler's note to Bloomberg staff: We will grow in 2014

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Esteban Kozak / Twitter blog:

New ways to search on Twitter — We're updating our iOS and Android apps to make it easier to discover what's happening on Twitter. — New filters in search help you quickly find exactly the Tweets and people you're looking for. And now you have the option to view all Tweets …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable, App Advice, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land and MacRumors

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: Twitter Gets Experimental — And Not Everyone Loves It

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower

Discussion: Gigaom, PRNewser, Mashable, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, The Verge, WebProNews, Fast Company, The Drum, CNET, @bryandfischer, @chrchristensen, @djbentley, @antderosa, @chrisboutet, @mattbuchanan, Electronista, Engadget, ReadWrite and @jimpoco

New York Times:

Murdoch Divorce Said to Be Almost Final — Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Murdoch are negotiating the final details of their divorce settlement, a deal that will officially end the 14-year marriage of the media mogul and his third wife, according to people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, @michaelwolffnyc, @michaelwolffnyc and Variety

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Quora Will Push Its Most Link-Baity Content to BuzzFeed (Though It Would Never Call It That) — On Quora, answers to the question “What are the most surreal places one can ever visit?” are a fantastical mix of caves and mountains and formations and reefs. The page has more than half a million views.

Discussion: The Quora Blog

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

The rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man has become a poster boy for citizen journalism — We've written many times about how social media and what Om likes to call the “democratization of distribution” have changed the way that journalism works in a digital age …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @antderosa and New Yorker

Jim Romenesko:

Ted Turner: Print has a future - if it's combined with audio and video — Most of Patricia Sellers' interview with Ted Turner is behind Fortune's paywall, but the magazine sent highlights of the Q & A for posting: — Twenty years ago you were saying that print is dead. — That's true.

Discussion: Fortune and @davidfolkenflik

Erik Wemple:

FishbowlDC lawsuit: Wendy Gordon speaks out — Wendy Gordon still feels a need to set the record straight. “I'm not a lush, I don't have sexually transmitted diseases, I'm not a cougar,” she says, noting that she also doesn't plaster her images all over the Internet.

Discussion: @jfdulac, @amandahess and @abeaujon

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

‘60 Minutes’ Viewership Holds In Wake of Discredited Benghazi Story — The viewership of “60 Minutes” doesn't seem to have suffered much in the wake of the discredited report on the attack in Benghazi last month. — Since that story aired on Oct. 27, the show has averaged 14.309 million total viewers in its three airings.

Discussion: Lost Remote

David Weir / KQED News Fix:

Final Words From Raul Ramirez: ‘Journalism Has Always Been About the Power of Voices’ — Tonight, Raul Ramirez, the executive director of news and public affairs at KQED Public Radio, is being posthumously awarded the 2013 Distinguished Service to Journalism Award by the Society of Professional Journalists …

New York Times:

Hollywood Studios Facing Upheaval at Highest Levels — LOS ANGELES — Advice for the power players at Hollywood's coming round of black-tie galas: Don't leave your seat to table-hop. — Your chair might be gone when you get back. — Even as the movie awards season accelerates here …

Discussion: @kennethturan, Los Angeles Times, hypebot, Deadline.com, The Wrap and Variety

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Disqus enables rich media in comments because conversations are more than just text — Disclosure: VentureBeat uses Disqus for its comment platform. — Disqus is rolling out a significant update to its online comment platform today that add videos, photos, and other forms of rich media to discussions between readers.

Discussion: The Next Web, Disqus and ReadWrite

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Music Streaming Startup Rdio Lays Off Staff To 'Improve Cost Structure And Ensure A Scalable Business" — The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup …

Discussion: The Verge, Gigaom, @panzer, @jherskowitz and @sai