Mediagazer: Los Angeles Times Media Group launches shopping website (Wendy Lee/The Breakdown)

6:45 PM ET, January 13, 2014

Top News:

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Charter Makes $61.3 Billion Offer to Acquire Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) offered to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) for about $132.50 a share, valuing the second-largest U.S. cable provider at more than $61 billion, including debt.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Wrap, Deadline.com, Capital New York, Los Angeles Times, @davecbenoit, @dgelles, @jboorstin, @jboorstin, The Verge, BGR and Variety

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Readers Lash Out About Bill Keller's Column on a Woman With Cancer — Bill Keller's column in The Times on Monday about Lisa Bonchek Adams has generated a great deal of negative response. Xeni Jardin, the well-known writer who blogs on Boing Boing, sometimes about her own experience with cancer, was outraged, calling it bullying.

Discussion: Capital New York, The Huffington Post, @praeburn, @7im, New York Magazine, @studentactivism, @richarddeitsch, @sarahkendzior, iMediaEthics, Pressing Issues and Mashable

Zeynep Tufekci / Medium:

Social media is a conversation, not a press release. — How @nytkeller and @emmagkeller flunk understanding @adamslisa. — Last week was a curious one. First, Guardian writer Emma G. Keller wrote a cancer-shaming article [archived here] on metastastic breast cancer sufferer Lisa Adams' social media presence.

Discussion: Wired, Gigaom, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, @zeynep, @laurenyoung, @ivohmedia, Mediaite, @ejwillingham, Mashable, @matthewteller, @dandrezner, @elaineschattner, @notjessewalker and Pressing Issues

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Bill Keller Criticized For Op-Ed About Cancer Patient Lisa Bonchek Adams — UPDATE: The Guardian has taken down Emma Keller's piece about Adams, writing, “This post has been deleted with the agreement of the subject because it is inconsistent with the Guardian editorial code.”

Discussion: Gawker, Salon, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, The Nation, Boing Boing, The Wire and @johnmcquaid

Poynter:

Guardian deletes Emma Keller post about cancer patient — The Guardian has removed a post by Emma Gilbey Keller about Lisa Adams, who blogs and tweets about her cancer. — “Following an investigation by the Guardian's independent readers' editor, we have removed the article in question …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Capital New York, @anthonyha and @jeffjarvis

Luke Harding / Guardian:

Russia expels US journalist David Satter without explanation — Moscow authorities ban writer from the country in first expulsion of US journalist since the cold war — Russia has expelled a US journalist living in Moscow for the first time since the cold war, in a move that is likely …

Discussion: @ptbrennan11

Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:

Russia Expels American Journalist — David Satter is the first American reporter to be declared persona non grata in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. — Via David Satter — NEW YORK — Russia has declared Radio Free Europe journalist David Satter persona non grata …

Discussion: Radio Free Europe/Radio … and @motherjones

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Is Yahoo serious about media? — Under Marissa Mayer's leadership, Yahoo keeps making substantial efforts to become a major news media player. Will a couple of well-know bylines and a shiny mobile app do the job? — A big Silicon Valley player entering the news business has long been the worst nightmare of legacy publishers.

Discussion: @emilybell, @karaswisher, @kantrowitz, @mathewi, @timobrien and GeekWire

Mike Allen / Politico: Katie Couric makes Yahoo debut

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bloomberg returns to headquarters for his day job — With his 12 years as mayor of New York behind him, Michael Bloomberg received a warm welcome-home this morning from the chief executive of Bloomberg L.P., the financial information and media company founded by the 71-year-old plutocrat in 1981.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, DealBook, @mlcalderone, @joepompeo, Talking Biz News, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple loses bid to block antitrust monitorship — (Reuters) - Apple Inc lost a bid on Monday to block an antitrust monitor appointed after a judge's finding that the company conspired to fix e-book prices. — At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied Apple's request …

Discussion: Gigaom, AppleInsider, MacRumors, BGR, The Verge, Electronista and 9to5Mac

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman Extends Contract — John Hogan, the head of the company's radio division, is retiring. — Clear Channel Media Holdings announced on Monday that chairman and chief executive Bob Pittman has extended his contract an additional five years.

Jennifer Faull / The Drum:
John Hogan, chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, departs

Discussion: AllAccess.com, Business Wire and Billboard

Matt Mullenweg:

In role swap, Matt Mullenweg becomes Automattic's CEO, Toni Schneider to focus on new products — Toni Schneider & Automattic CEO — Eight years and one day ago I blogged about Toni Schneider joining Automattic as CEO, as I said then: I first met Toni shortly after I moved to San Francisco …

Discussion: Om Malik, Toni.org, VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechCrunch, ZDNet, @jeffjarvis, @brooke, @mg, @om, @dries, @dangillmor, WebProNews and Re/code

Dylan Byers / Politico:

HBO to end ‘The Newsroom’ — Aaron Sorkin's “The Newsroom,” widely seen by Twitter's chattering classes and yours truly as the worst show to ever grace the godsend that is HBO, will come to an end after its third and final season airs this fall. — ‘The Newsroom’ will begin production …

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap and @sarah_boxer

Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:

52 journalists including Ben Smith sign letter calling for release of Al Jazeera reporters — Journalists Show Sign of Support for Imprisoned Al Jazeera Reporters — Imprisoned for over two weeks in Egypt, Al Jazeera reporters held captive received support from 52 reporters and editors who signed a letter calling for their release.

Discussion: The National Press Club

Wendy Lee / The Breakdown:

Los Angeles Times Media Group launches shopping website — The Los Angeles Times Media Group said Monday it is launching a shopping website called District West. ; Credit: Photo by Orlando Contreras López via Flickr Creative Commons — The Los Angeles Times Media Group announced Monday …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Reddit traffic increased 83% in 2013, but traffic to publishers dropped 36% — Reddit Has Become A Much Less Important Source Of Traffic Than It Used To Be — Reddit saw an 83% increase in traffic, to 731 million unique visitors in 2013, the company said, but “the front page of the internet” …

Discussion: SocialTimes

Brandon Sun:

Globe and Mail publisher says company plans to eliminate 18 positions — TORONTO - The Globe and Mail says it's offering buyouts for 18 positions across the media company, including six jobs in its editorial department. — Other departments affected include the Globe's advertising division …

Discussion: @tamara_baluja and J-source.ca

Ben Cardew / Guardian:

Personalised digital magazine app Flipboard aims for 150 million users — Company plans enhanced discovery and search tools to explore the 5m magazines already created — Personalised digital magazine app Flipboard is aiming to pass 150 million users in 2014, thanks to enhanced discovery …

Discussion: @justin_b_smith