Mediagazer: The Guardian's future... by the paper's guardian Andrew Miller (Ian Burrell/The Independent)

11:25 AM ET, December 1, 2013

Top News:

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

Peter Kaplan, Editor of New York Observer, Dies at 59 — In his 15 years as editor, Mr. Kaplan was credited with making The New York Observer both pertinent and impertinent as it gleefully chronicled the every move and shake of the city's movers and shakers. — Arts in the Region — ARTS |

Doree Shafrir / BuzzFeed:

Peter Kaplan And His Writers — The former New York Observer editor died Friday at age 59. “The barefoot contessa wore rubber thongs.” — Paul Morigi / Getty Images for Conde Nast Publications — Everyone's story about being hired by Peter Kaplan is quirky and telling in its own way …

Discussion: @joehagansays, @doreeshafrir, @ktlincoln, Slate and @petersterne

Colin Campbell / The New York Observer:

Peter Kaplan: Never Hold Your Best Stuff — Peter W. Kaplan, the editor of The New York Observer from 1994 to 2009, died Friday of cancer, The New York Times reported earlier this evening. — Mr. Kaplan, who died at age 59, was an outsized figure at the newspaper and across the city itself …

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, @jonathanalter, @moorehn, @mlcalderone and Talking Points Memo

Linda Shapley / Editor's Notes:

Q&A with Ricardo Baca, The Post's new marijuana editor — Ricardo Baca has been appointed Marijuana Editor at the Denver Post. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post) — As noted last week, The Denver Post is appointing an editor to oversee our coverage of the recreational marijuana law taking effect in January.

Discussion: Gawker, @mikephilpott and Guardian

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

The Guardian's future... by the paper's guardian Andrew Miller — Andrew Miller has presided over a £200m loss at the media group over the past six years, but that's the cost of global expansion, he tells Ian Burrell — Guardian News & Media has lost nearly £200m in the past six years …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Who hates Jony Ive's iOS7? Publishers, that's who — When Marco Arment launched The Magazine in October last year, media watchers got excited about its business model. At the time, The Magazine was an iOS-only product (you can now subscribe and read on the Web, too) …

Discussion: @dangillmor and Marco.org

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Hasty switch from analogue to digital radio could hit poor, warns MP — Helen Goodman says listeners cannot afford to buy new digital sets and accuses government of putting big business first — Shadow culture minister Helen Goodman has warned the government against a hasty switch to digital radio …

Discussion: Mix 96, Complete Music Update and Guardian

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Google Newsstand: What do magazine publishers think? — We speak to Future and Condé Nast to get their views the launch of Google Play Newsstand — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Mayabhushan Nagvenkar / Associated Press:

Indian Editor Arrested In Sexual Assault Case — PANAJI, India (AP) — The editor of an Indian magazine known for exposing abuses of power was arrested Saturday in a sexual assault case that has fueled fresh outrage over the treatment of women in the country, police said.

Discussion: New York Times, The Hindu, India & World, indiatoday.intoday.in, Kirk LaPointe's … and BBC

Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:

Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden — LONDON — Living in self-imposed exile in Russia, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be safely out of reach from western powers. But dismayed by the continued airing …

Discussion: @ggreenwald, @raju, @arusbridger, @morethanannie and @dangillmor

Sara Morrison / Poynter:

Guardian's record store lounge a prelude to launch of a U.S. culture section — At first glance, the Guardian's new #GuardianGreenRoom space in New York's just-opened Rough Trade record store looks like an intriguing - if foolish — marriage of two business models that the Internet has irrevocably doomed.

Discussion: CNET

Marc Graser / Variety:

Xbox One Is Still Stuck in Cable's Orbit — Microsoft's new console can't deliver without a little help from pay TV — The “one” in the name Xbox One is a little misleading when it comes to watching live TV through Microsoft's new videogame console. — Though the device is being touted …

Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:

The Right Wing Has Its Own Upworthy And You Won't Believe How Well It's Doing — The low-profile Independent Journal Review could be the conservative answer to the social sharing shift. — A newer conservative website, run by insiders but with an outsider appeal, has rocketed past …

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them

Discussion: PandoDaily, @davidbauer, @bankoff, @zimbalist, @noahmittman and @henrikbennetsen

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

This online journalism startup raised $1.7M in crowdfunding and you've never heard of it — We've been writing a lot lately about online journalism startups like Matter — which was acquired by Medium and just dropped its paywall — and NSFW Corp., the Vegas-based venture that just merged with Pando Daily.

Ernst-Jan Pfauth / The Next Web: How we turned a world record in journalism crowdfunding into an actual publication