Mediagazer: George Brock Looks Toward a Bright Future of News Beyond Print (Mark Glaser/Mediashift)

4:30 AM ET, November 21, 2013

Top News:

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’

Discussion: Politico and @jayrosen_nyu

Gillian Reagan / Capital New York:
Capital news: We're relaunching on Dec. 3

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, @thestalwart, @lpolgreen, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Magazine, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post and Capital New York

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

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

Discussion: Capital New York, @poynter and @fmanjoo

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Is Google Play Newsstand a viable alternative to standalone Android apps? — Google introduced its latest platform for consuming news on Android devices today, suggesting that news organizations' native apps aren't serving readers well — even as those apps continue to be offered in the Google Play Store.

Discussion: Official Android Blog, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and GeekWire

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

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

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

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 …, @tomscocca, @jbflint, Broadcasting & Cable, @miriamgottfried, TVSpy, @brianstelter and New York Magazine

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: The Indian Express on Mobile and Times of India

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

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Dan Fletcher has built a home for journalism outside of Facebook... where it belongs — Dan Fletcher's career seems to progress in increments of 15 months. That's how long it took him to land a cover story for Time magazine, at 22 years old and in his first full-time job.

Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Online:

How Three Decades of News Coverage Has Shaped Our View of the World — Mapping millions of news events makes one thing clear: Some countries are getting a whole lot more press attention than others. — Head to the homepages of major news sites today, and you'll get the impression …

Mark Glaser / Mediashift:

George Brock Looks Toward a Bright Future of News Beyond Print — Now is a good time to be both a pessimist and optimist about journalism. Old ways and institutions are struggling, while new platforms and business models offer hope for change. George Brock, a writer and editor at the Times …

Discussion: @pbsidealab

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 …

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

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

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: @natives and FishbowlNY, Thanks:@msebastian

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

Kevin Eck / TVSpy:

Barry Diller Says He Would Sue Aereo If He Still Ran FOX — Barry Diller told Bloomberg Media Group chairman Andy Lack at Bloomberg's “The Year Ahead:2014” conference he would fight Aereo if he still ran FOX. — “I would sue them and I would try and say something about consumers if I did so,” Diller told those in attendance.