Mediagazer: The evolution of Bloomberg News (Felix Salmon)

7:05 PM ET, November 19, 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: Gannett Blog, @eisingerj, @michaelroston, @jayrosen_nyu, @jkbloodtreasure, Talking Biz News, @pawelmorski, @joepompeo, @preetatweets, @comradewong, @mathewi, Melville House Books, The New York Observer and @paulconley

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

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Michael Forsythe out at Bloomberg News — Michael Forsythe, the Bloomberg News reporter suspected of leaking allegations that his outlet spiked investigative reports on China, has left the company, he confirmed on Tuesday. — “I can confirm that I have left Bloomberg News.

Discussion: Jack Shafer, Business Insider, Poynter, Sinosphere and The Huffington Post

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Fear And Anxiety At Bloomberg TV

Discussion: @mlcalderone

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

Discussion: FishbowlDC

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

Discussion: 10,000 Words, @pekingmike, mUmBRELLA, @coopnytimes, @comradewong and @henrycstewart

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: Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, The Wire, The Daily Caller, Folio, FishbowlNY, @thewire, Adweek, @angryblacklady, @bobbymacreports and @attackerman

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

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: @michaelwolffnyc

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: 9to5Mac, The Next Web, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Mashable and Engadget

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

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

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:

Wikimedia Steps Up “Sockpuppet” Fight — Wikipedia's war with a professional PR agency is escalating. — Wikimedia, the non-profit that supports the community-generated encyclopedia, made headlines last month by saying it was looking into a fight between some of the site's editors …

Discussion: Wikimedia blog and WebProNews

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: Gawker, @carr2n, @jbflint and Los Angeles Times