Mediagazer: NBCUniversal to Buy Stake in AllThingsD Founders' New Venture (Lucas Shaw/The Wrap)

9:50 AM ET, November 25, 2013

Top News:

Signs of Change in News Mission at Bloomberg — Champagne flowed last Monday night as Hong Kong's business elite gathered with top Bloomberg L.P. executives at a dinner for 100 guests at a cultural center in a former British colonial military complex. — Multimedia

David Carr / New York Times:

Overlook the Value of Interns at Great Peril — Last week, The New York Post ran the kind of heart-rending article tabloids excel at. A young woman, new to New York, found herself pushed beyond what she could bear, forced to work by a big bad corporation for a compensation of exactly zero.

Discussion: @propublica, @derushaj, @rossbarkan, @carr2n, @jeffjarvis, @emmacarew, @dankennedy_nu, @romenesko, @martinez_a, @mattschiavenza, @carr2n, @tomfinn2, @greenhousenyt, @joeyerardi, @postbaron, @jeffjarvis, @zseward and @ftrain

Michael Wolff / USA Today:

At ‘Business Insider,’ it's time to sell — The digital traffic world is not a sound long-term play. — CONNECT — Henry Blodget is a savvy operator who took brilliant advantage of the dot-com bubble and who then, after having taken too much advantage and getting banned …

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @hblodget, @bobbymacreports, @raju and @felixsalmon

Felix:

Michael Wolff can't do arithmetic — Michael Wolff has a weird column about Business Insider today. (Near the top, he says that Henry Blodget can be seen “at nearly every industry cocktail party”, which is hilariously wrong, Blodget hates going to such things, and almost never does.)

Discussion: @jyarow

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

News Outlets Held Off On Reporting Secret Iran Talks For Months — Multiple news outlets held off on reporting the news of secret talks between the United States and Iran for months, it was revealed on Sunday. — After news broke of a nuclear deal between Iran and the West on Saturday night …

Discussion: @nirajc and Politico

New York Times:

Drones Offer Journalists a Wider View — The best way to film the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines, said Lewis Whyld, a British photographer, was from the air. — But Mr. Whyld did not want to beg for a ride on a military helicopter, taking the space of much-needed aid.

Discussion: Press Gazette, @nxthompson, New York Magazine and @suerobinsonuw, Thanks:@steverubel

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday — As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on its home page.

Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:

Inside a Twitter Robot Factory — Fake Activity, Often Bought for Publicity Purposes, Influences Trending Topics — One day earlier this month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan. — He then programmed the accounts to “follow” …

Discussion: @elanazak, @infoarbitrage, @wsj and Digits

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Beastie Boys, ‘Girls’ Viral Video in Copyright Infringement Fight — Goldieblox, the company responsible for the “Princess Machine” advertisement, demands a declaratory judgment that its parody of the song is fair use. — Beastie Boys — This week, a toy company called Goldieblox ignited …

Discussion: Rolling Stone, @samuelfine, @copyrightgirl, Techdirt, TIME, EW.com, Boing Boing, The Wrap, NME, Consequence of Sound and Globe and Mail

Robert Feder:

Under new Guild agreement, Sun-Times agrees to bring back some of the photographers it fired earlier this year — Sun-Times, Guild agree on new contract — A tentative contract settlement between the parent company of the Sun-Times and the union representing editorial employees could lead …

Discussion: Poynter and @tvnewslab

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

NBCUniversal to Buy Stake in AllThingsD Founders' New Venture — Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the technology journalists who founded AllThingsD, have enlisted support for their new venture from NBCUniversal, which will take a minority stake, an individual with knowledge of the negotiations told TheWrap.

Discussion: Mediashift

Quora:

What tools does Upworthy employ to test its headlines? — Answer: We have a custom click testing system that I call the magic unicorn box which we built internally. I can't say how it works. All I can say is that I put my headlines in the box, and the magical scores come out, and then I make decisions based on that.

Discussion: @davechensky, @raju, @newswhip, @pkafka and @quora