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12:25 PM ET, November 19, 2013

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Felix Salmon:
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.
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 …
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 …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Winkler's note to Bloomberg staff: We will grow in 2014
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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 …
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.
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: @carr2n, @jbflint and Los Angeles Times
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
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.
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
 
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