Mediagazer: Pinterest Launches Tools To Help Users Plan Trips (Ryan Lawler/TechCrunch)

10:55 PM ET, November 20, 2013

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Politico's Mike Allen, native advertising pioneer — Introducing: The “Playbook” game! — Politico Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen writes “Playbook,” a daily e-mail newsletter featuring stories from Politico and other outlets, various “exclusives,” tips and birthday notices.

Erik Wemple:

Politico's Mike Allen to assist with New York version of ‘Playbook’ — A while back, the Erik Wemple Blog argued that Politico's “Playbook,” the morning newsletter authored by the famously workaholic reporter Mike Allen, prospered in a unique Beltway seedbed: Lots of issue-advocacy dollars …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and Politico

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Trying To ‘Win The Morning’ From Politico — NEW YORK — A few months ago, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said in an interview that she looks at Politico each day, and specifically, reads “Mike Allen's email in the morning.” — Allen's Playbook is big part …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Gillian Reagan / Capital New York:

Capital news: We're relaunching on Dec. 3 — Capital's new logo. Designed by Randi Hazan. — Friends, — For the past ten weeks, we have been working hard on some exciting new projects. We're excited to show you what we've created. — Below, you'll find the full text of a press release …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, @mlcalderone, MediaPost, The Wrap and Poynter

Dylan Byers / Politico:

N.Y. Times D.C. shakeup: David Leonhardt out, Carolyn Ryan in as bureau chief — New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt will step down and be replaced by political editor Carolyn Ryan, sources familiar with the decision told POLITICO on Wednesday.

Discussion: The New Republic, Adweek, New York Times, NetNewsCheck Latest, @thestalwart, @lpolgreen, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post and Capital New York

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT names new D.C. bureau chief, plans two ‘newsroom start ups’

Discussion: Capital New York, @poynter and @fmanjoo

Hadas Gold / Politico:
N.Y. Times hires four for new data vertical

Discussion: The Monkey Cage and @fivethirtyeight

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Launches Tools To Help Users Plan Trips — Posted 12 seconds ago by Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) — Meet Mobile Incubator Tandem's New Class Of Startups — Or Rather, Two Thirds Of It — Pinterest took its biggest step toward monetization yet tonight, as the company released …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Oh, How Pinteresting!, CNET, @skift, @skift, @rafat, @pinterest, Skift, @hannahkuchler, The Next Web, @johnnyjet, @jguynn and @jguynn

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Bob Woodward: Edward Snowden Should Have Come To Me Instead — Edward Snowden may have helped blow the lid on the NSA's secret surveillance programs, but Bob Woodward has one complaint: that Snowden should have come to him with the leaks. — “I wish [Snowden] had come to me instead of others …

Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Mediaite

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal — A couple of years ago it seemed very important for every big consumer Web company to have its own version of Flipboard, the mobile app that lets you assemble your own digital magazine.

Discussion: Gigaom, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, investors.nytco.com, Financial Times, VentureBeat, MacRumors, TechCrunch, NetNewsCheck Latest, Electronista and Mashable

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Is Google Play Newsstand a viable alternative to standalone Android apps?

Discussion: Official Android Blog and GeekWire

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

NY1 to rebrand as ‘Time Warner Cable News NY1’ by end of year — The rebranding of NY1 is officially happening. Time Warner Cable's New York cable news channel will become “Time Warner Cable News NY1” by the end of 2013, according to a memo sent to staff there.

Discussion: Pew Research Journalism …, @miriamgottfried, @brianstelter, @tomscocca, @jbflint, Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy and New York Magazine

Walter Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:

Tribune Co. announces restructuring, will cut nearly 700 jobs — The Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) — Tribune Co., the parent of the Los Angeles Times, on Wednesday unveiled a restructuring plan that will slash nearly 700 jobs over the next year.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Politico, LA Observed, Robert Feder, Poynter, The Wrap, @hitsville, Forbes, New York Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Top Digital Journal News, @kyoshino, @wesleylowery, @latimes, @cwellssun and Variety

Laura Bennett / The New Republic:

Media Diets: Our Most Pretentious Obsession — The phony cult of telling people what you read — In a recent Times op-ed, Bill Keller, making the case for 2013 as the golden age of news, offered a casual account of his daily media intake. It started ordinarily enough: a little NPR at the gym …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @choire, @lbennett, @moorehn, @alyssarosenberg, @johnmcquaid, @erikwemple, @nprmonkeysee, @maura, @thestalwart, @max_fisher, @michaelroston, @pbump and @digiphile

Pew Research Center:

Obamacare v. Philippines typhoon: How cable covered two big stories — In a week dominated by two mega-stories—the continuing travails of Obamacare and the devastating typhoon in the Philippines—America's hypercompetitive cable news outlets exercised very different news judgments.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, @lrainie, @jfdulac, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, The FJP and TheBlaze.com

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Inc.'s Last Editor-in-Chief Sends Its 'Pope's Miter' to Editors in Pieces — ‘Classy Move’ Symbolizing Individual Editors' Responsibility Going Forward — Editors at Time Inc. have received unexpected gifts from their former boss Martha Nelson: pieces of the “Pope's miter” …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @natives, Thanks:@msebastian

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘New York Times’ introduces ‘The New York Times Minute,’ thrice-daily video news update — The New York Times is going bite-sized with its growing stable of video coverage. — The paper debuted a new video series this morning called “The New York Times Minute,” a thrice-daily …

Discussion: Poynter, Gigaom, BtoB Magazine, Nieman Journalism Lab, @raju, FishbowlNY, investors.nytco.com and NetNewsCheck Latest

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

Broadcasters urge U.S. Congress to preserve advertising as a deductible business expense — Is an Ad Tax Deduction Battle Moving to the Senate? — The advertising community has been on high alert over proposals in the House to limit or eliminate the advertising tax deduction.

Discussion: MarketingVox News & Trends, Radio & Television … and Radio & Television …

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Rupert Murdoch's wife likely got Beijing house, $44-million NYC condo in divorce settlement — Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, appeared before a Manhattan judge on Wednesday in a 10-minute hearing that cleared the way for ending their 14-year marriage.

Discussion: New York Times

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Maxim Sale Is in Big Trouble — Alpha Media Group's sale of Maxim appears to be headed for the rocks, knowledgeable sources told Adweek. — Cerberus Capital Management-controlled Alpha officially put the laddie magazine on the market in March. In September, it announced that it had found …

NPR:

'McSweeney's': Quirky Quarterly To Publishing Powerhouse … In the late 90s, before Dave Eggers wrote a bestselling memoir (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), before he penned the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are, before any of his novels, he was a young guy sitting …

Discussion: @contextual_life and @thelincoln

Hindustan Times:

Tehelka editor steps down after allegations of sexual misconduct; not enough say colleagues — Tarun Tejpal, the founder-editor of weekly news magazine Tehelka, stepped down from his post on Wednesday for six months after tendering an unconditional apology for “misconduct” …

Discussion: Times of India and The Indian Express on Mobile