Mediagazer: At ‘Business Insider,’ it's time to sell (Michael Wolff/USA Today)

12:05 PM ET, November 25, 2013

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

Paul Carr's news site NSFW Corp joins with Silicon Valley-backed PandoDaily — After NSFW's financial failure, the tech journalist joins the tech site PandoDaily - ‘the site of record for Silicon Valley’ — Tech journalist and entrepreneur Paul Carr's last venture was surprisingly old-school.

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

PandoDaily acquires NSFWCORP to double down on investigative reporting — There are three people who have long been on my dream team to help me build PandoDaily. One of them I've still gotta work on. The second is Mike Tatum, who keeps saying no and then keeps doing work for us for free anyway.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, @sarahcuda, @eringriffith, @paulcarr, @hcheadle, @mcarney, @markgurman, @jayrosen_nyu and @felixsalmon

Paul Carr / NSFWCORP:
NSFWCORP Sells Out — A few minutes ago, the Guardian broke …

Discussion: @paulcarr

New York Times:

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

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: FishbowlNY, @mccarthyryanj, @mathewi, @felixsalmon, @hblodget, @bobbymacreports, Talking Biz News and @raju

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: @thestalwart and @jyarow

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Henry Blodget responds to Michael Wolff's claim that Business Insider is for sale

Discussion: @jyarow and Talking Biz News

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

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

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It — The TV business is having its worst year ever. — Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to Citi Research.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
One Way or Another, Big TV Is Getting Bigger. Will You Care?

Discussion: TIME

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: Business Insider, @ethanz, @nickconfessore, @pkedrosky, @elanazak, @allisonwsj, @infoarbitrage, @wsj and Digits

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

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

Discussion: New York Magazine, @nirajc and Politico

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, @tvnewslab, The Newspaper Guild and The Huffington Post

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 …