Mediagazer: CNN Acquires Film by Jose Antonio Vargas (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

8:05 AM ET, November 20, 2013

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Gets Experimental — And Not Everyone Loves It — Part of any tech company's usual rigamarole is testing changes to its products. It gives valuable insight into what your users like and — more importantly — what they don't. — Case in point: Twitter has amped up its product testing lately …

Discussion: BreakingNews

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: Business Insider, App Advice, TechCrunch, Mashable, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, Search Engine Land, TUAW and MacRumors

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower

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

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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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Fear And Anxiety At Bloomberg TV

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Michael Forsythe out at Bloomberg News

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

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 and @antderosa

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: investors.nytco.com and @raju

David Weir / KQED News Fix:

Final Words From Raul Ramirez: ‘Journalism Has Always Been About the Power of Voices’ — Tonight, Raul Ramirez, the executive director of news and public affairs at KQED Public Radio, is being posthumously awarded the 2013 Distinguished Service to Journalism Award by the Society of Professional Journalists …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Glenn Mulcaire's News of the World contract shown to phone-hacking trial — Private investigator's £105,000-a-year deal to provide ‘research and information’ was signed by chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck — A copy of the £105,000-a-year contract Glenn Mulcaire had with the News …

Discussion: Press Association

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

CNN Acquires Film by Jose Antonio Vargas — CNN Films has acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to “Documented,” a feature-length film about undocumented immigrant and former Washington Post and Huffington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. The film will premiere on CNN/U.S. next spring …

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

NewsWhip launches local function for social search tool — The newsroom tool for surfacing trending stories now draws on local blogs and news outlets in the UK, US, Canada and Germany as well as national outlets from around the world — NewsWhip Spike, a tool for finding news stories trending …

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, @michaelwolffnyc and Variety

Robert Andrews / InPublishing:

How have publishers responded to the demise of Google Reader? — When Google announced in March that it was “sunsetting” its RSS newsreader service Google Reader, writes Robert Andrews, echoes rang out from hundreds of aghast journalists' jaws hitting the floor.

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Disqus enables rich media in comments because conversations are more than just text — Disclosure: VentureBeat uses Disqus for its comment platform. — Disqus is rolling out a significant update to its online comment platform today that add videos, photos, and other forms of rich media to discussions between readers.

Discussion: The Next Web, Disqus and ReadWrite

Erik Wemple:

FishbowlDC lawsuit: Wendy Gordon speaks out — Wendy Gordon still feels a need to set the record straight. “I'm not a lush, I don't have sexually transmitted diseases, I'm not a cougar,” she says, noting that she also doesn't plaster her images all over the Internet.

Discussion: @abeaujon, @jfdulac and @amandahess