Mediagazer: Murdoch Divorce Said to Be Almost Final (New York Times)

9:00 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: @michaelroston, @jkbloodtreasure, Talking Biz News, @pawelmorski, @comradewong, @preetatweets, @eisingerj, @joepompeo, @jayrosen_nyu, Gannett Blog, @mathewi, The New York Observer and Melville House Books

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

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Fear And Anxiety At Bloomberg TV — Big changes are ahead after another management overhaul of the financial news outlet's TV operation. Problem is, no one is really sure what they are — or where they stand. — When new Bloomberg Media Chief Executive Justin Smith announced just 12 days ago …

Discussion: @mlcalderone

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

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

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

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

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, Variety and @michaelwolffnyc

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

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

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

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