Mediagazer: Thrillist Media Group finds a home on the web (Johana Bhuiyan/Capital New York)

1:45 PM ET, December 13, 2013

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Mary Ann Milbourn / Orange County Register:

Register owner to launch daily L.A. newspaper — The co-owner and publisher of the Orange County Register announced Thursday that the company will move broadly into Los Angeles County early next year and publish a new, seven-day-a-week newspaper, the Los Angeles Register.

Discussion: LA Observed, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY, Hollywood Reporter, @margotroosevelt, Los Angeles Business …, Poynter and The Newspaper Guild

Kelly McBride / Poynter:

Newtown's media blackout forces journalists to do their jobs — The one-year anniversary of a tragic event is a significant moment. But for journalists, such moments too often become opportunities for emotional exploitation rather than real journalism. — The citizens of Newtown, Conn. …

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, @evanberland_ap, Education and the Media, Columbia Journalism Review, TIME, Jack Shafer and Boing Boing

Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:

Sen. Bill Nelson: I told AP not to run Robert Levinson story — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said early Friday that he urged the Associated Press not to publish a story about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago and had been working for the CIA.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and @lrozen

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Associated Press Held CIA Scoop For 3 Years At The Government's Request

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post, @mightyobvious_ and Gawker

Paul Colford / The Definitive Source:
Why AP is publishing story about missing American tied to CIA

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

Media Matters Declares Victory: ‘The War On Fox Is Over’ — WASHINGTON — Since its founding in 2004, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America has been a thorn in the side of Fox News. Its dozens of staffers monitor the network's leadership, hosts, guests and financial dealings incessantly …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze.com

Peter Elkind / Fortune:

Bloomberg News reaffirms ban on writing about Mike Bloomberg — The news organization owned by Bloomberg LP has an unusual, self-imposed policy preventing itself from writing about its founder. — FORTUNE — When Michael Bloomberg retires as New York's mayor in January after 12 years in office …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hit & Run and Talking Biz News

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Charter Said to Prepare Offer Letter for Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) is preparing an offer letter to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for less than $140 a share, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. — Charter will send the so-called bear hug letter …

Discussion: AdAge, Variety, Radio & Television …, DealBook and The Verge

David Kravets / Wired:

AOL Tightens CrunchBase's Licensing to Block Competitors — AOL is legally locking down its crowdsourced CrunchBase database of tech companies, in response to a commercial iPhone app that used the database to compete with AOL. — The new CrunchBase license will continue to allow free use …

Discussion: Info @ CrunchBase and TechCrunch

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Q&A: Sarah Marshall on leaving Journalism.co.uk for the WSJ and the state of media across the pond — For three years, Sarah Marshall has held a job that's pretty similar to, well, my job. And I think she's pretty good at it! But Marshall is moving on, from Journalism.co.uk …

Discussion: @niemanlab and Talking Biz News

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

‘Invisible Child’: Behind the Scenes, Before and After — Andrea Elliott's moving and exhaustively reported five-part series, “Invisible Child,” was 15 months in the making. At 28,738 words, and accompanied by affecting images by Ruth Fremson, a staff photographer, this story of a homeless girl …

Discussion: @mattapuzzo, @patkiernan, @byronyork, @tedhartii, @bydanielvictor, @sulliview, @longreads, @palafo, @richarddeitsch and Politicker

Tom Balmforth / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Out Of Ukrainian Protests, A New Media Outlet Is Born — KYIV — A wave of panic grips protesters as rumors spread that tanks are bearing down on Kyiv to quell the revolt against President Viktor Yanukovych. — Several news outlets ran reports and word spreads like wildfire on Twitter.

Parker Higgins / Mediashift:

WordPress Goes to Court to Defend Censored Bloggers — The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual — and welcome — step of going to court to defend its users against bogus copyright claims aimed at silencing their speech on the platform. Automattic, WordPress's parent company …

Discussion: @timkarr and @pbsmediashift, Thanks:@mediatwit

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Amidst fierce competition, music streaming services fight for paying subscribers — A Stream of Music, Not Revenue — When Spotify, the digital music company of the moment, announced this week an exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin and free access on mobile devices, it also reported impressive numbers.

Discussion: @dada_drummer

Nellie Bowles / San Francisco Chronicle:

Jessica Lessin's startup courts broad audience for tech news — When former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin celebrated the launch of her journalism startup at a Pacific Heights mansion this week, the event attracted the tech A-list: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a gray hoodie …

Discussion: Valleywag, @julianhurrah, @mathewi and @jessicalessin

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

Thrillist Media Group finds a home on the web — Thrillist Media Group is finally getting around to building a website for the digital media company to call home, Capital has learned. — The Lerer Ventures-backed company, which is reportedly on track to bring in anywhere between $80 …

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Toronto Star reporter serves Rob Ford with libel notice — “On Thursday I served Rob Ford with a libel notice, the first step in the process of pursuing a defamation lawsuit,” Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale wrote in an article Thursday, explaining why he'd chosen to take legal action against Toronto's controversial mayor.

Discussion: National Post, Torontoist, Huffington Post Canada, Globe and Mail and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Facebook Video Pitch Deck Shows It Has Gone To War Against TV — Facebook believes its soon-to-be-launched video ad product will compete directly for TV ad dollars, and those going on YouTube, according to a leaked sales pitch deck obtained by Techcrunch. — Speaker notes alongside …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jose Delreal / Politico:

White House press corps tees off on Jay Carney over access — A frustrated press corps sounded off Thursday against White House press secretary Jay Carney over lack of access to President Barack Obama. — Carney said the White House “is working” to address the concerns …

Discussion: TVNewser, @aprildryan and The Fix