Mediagazer: LA Times president leaving the building (Kevin Roderick/LA Observed)

1:15 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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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

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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 …

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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.

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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) …

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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.

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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 …

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

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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.

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 …

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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

LA Times president leaving the building — Kathy Thomson, the president and COO of the Los Angeles Times, sent around an email announcing her impending departure from the company. She said she was heading to another opportunity but did not offer details. The Times posted a short story but did not shed any light on her exit.

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