Mediagazer: Quentin Tarantino Suing Gawker Over Leaked ‘Hateful Eight’ Script (Exclusive) (Eriq Gardner/Hollywood Reporter)

7:30 PM ET, January 27, 2014

Top News:

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Omidyar: First Look plans to launch ‘family of digital magazines’ — In a video explaining his plans for First Look Media, founder/funder Pierre Omidyar says that in addition to a flagship site covering news, entertainment, sports and politics, the venture plans to launch “a family of digital magazines.”

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Mashable

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pierre Omidyar releases video previewing First Look Media

Discussion: @dylanbyers, @pierre and The Huffington Post

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff on Ezra Klein's Plan to Re-Imagine the News — News and Culture Site Expected to Launch in the Spring — The parent company of tech news site The Verge and sports blog SB Nation has lured The Washington Post's recently departed politics-and-policy wunderkind Ezra Klein …

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Gigaom, @darrenheitner, Mediawire Daily, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, TechCrunch, Politico and The Wrap

Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
The Washington Post tried to launch a venture like Ezra Klein's 15 years ago

Discussion: Washington Post, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @millie, @pottsmark, @jayrosen_nyu, @postbaron, @khanoisseur, @justin_b_smith, @wblau, @saletan and Talking Biz News

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Q&A: Ezra Klein Promises “A Completely Different Product”

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Quentin Tarantino Suing Gawker Over Leaked ‘Hateful Eight’ Script (Exclusive) — The director takes legal action over the distribution of his script. — Quentin Tarantino — Quentin Tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker Media for allegedly disseminating copies of his script, The Hateful Eight.

Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, Deadline.com, Mashable, Online NewsHour, The Verge, WebProNews, @popcultini, @eriqgardner, Daily Dot, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Mother Jones, NBCNews, The Huffington Post, Guardian, TIME and Variety

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Facebook Is Seeking “Editors” for News App — For years, Facebook has sworn by the power of algorithms to serve users a personalized mix of status updates, stories and photos. It's what makes up the heart of the company's premier product, the News Feed. — Soon, Facebook will add another approach …

Discussion: @hblodget, Mashable, @mathewi, @romenesko, @blathnaidhealy, @dangillmor, @pkafka and @kenli729

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Comcast, Charter Said to Near Pact on Time Warner Cable Assets — Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is near a deal to buy New York City, North Carolina and New England cable assets from Charter Communications Inc. if shareholders approve Charter's takeover bid for Time Warner Cable Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, The Verge and Variety

Susan Crawford / Bloomberg: Time Warner Cable Sale Will Cost Us All

Rachele Kanigel / Mediashift:

SF Chronicle Hopes Incubator Will ‘Turn Around Legacy Media Company’ — After two decades of being pummeled by savvy tech companies that have stolen its readers, its advertisers and perhaps even its place as the leading media company in town, the San Francisco Chronicle has decided to fight innovation with innovation.

Discussion: @mediatwit

Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:

Times Reporter Faces Expulsion From China — BEIJING — Despite objections raised by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in meetings with its top leaders, China appears set to force a correspondent for The New York Times to leave the country this week, and is continuing to block a number …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Politico and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Bloomberg's China business grows despite ‘brouhaha’

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Al Jazeera America to get prime new channel space — As it prepares to launch a new marketing campaign, Al Jazeera America will be getting some prime new channel placement for Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York. — Tomorrow, January 28, AJAM will be moving from channel 181 …

Discussion: Poynter, USA Today, TVNewser, @felixsalmon, @brianstelter, Politico and @tmcgev

Robert Lipsyte / ESPN:

ESPN Ombudsman criticises Grantland's Dr. V story, calls it “inexcusable” — Dr. V story understandable, inexcusable — A young golfer's obsession with an oddly shaped putter invented by a mysterious scientist and endorsed on YouTube? I will give that kind of story …

Discussion: @mathewi, @mrharrybay, @coreyinscoe, @drewmtips, @king_kaufman, Kirk LaPointe's …, @el_skootro, @ourand_sbj, @andrewrgoldman, @marynmck, @craigsilverman, @sulliview, @mattdpearce and @dangainor

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Why Capital New York's $6,000 paywall will probably work — When Politico's owner bought Capital New York in September, the move came as a surprise to many of us, but it could certainly be seen as a concrete assertion of the viability of Politico's business model, which is hybrid …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

To Cover State of the Union, Fusion Taps Talking Animals and A Chatty Hot Dog — Cable net backed by Univision and ABC News strikes out in satirical direction to stand apart from TV-news pack — When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, NBC News will trot out Brian Williams to anchor its coverage.

Discussion: TVNewser and @rove

WashPost PR:

National Journal Executive Editor Adam Kushner joins Washington Post to lead new opinion and analysis site — Adam Kushner to lead new digital opinion venture — Announcement from Executive Editor Marty Baron, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt and Outlook Editor Carlos Lozada:

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlDC, Politico, @jamescdownie, @mattyglesias, @adambkushner, @mlcalderone and @max_fisher

Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Stop Beating a Dead Fox — The conservative news channel's only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better. — here ain't no sanity clause," Chico Marx told Groucho. There is also no Santa Claus. And there was no sanity in the Santa fracas that became …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @owillis, @huffpostcanada, @owillis, @dangillmor, Erik Wemple, @path2enlighten, @nymag, @brianstelter, @joshmankiewicz and @themurdochtimes

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Q&A: Andrew Golis on matching great journalism with big audiences (and, oh yeah, dollars) — Andrew Golis has been hanging out at The Atlantic for the past six months or so, getting to know people and working on whatever interests him. Golis was hired in June to inaugurate the role …

Discussion: @agolis, @ceodonovan and @amlwhere

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The mobile inevitability: How CNN is prepping for the majority-mobile audience coming in 2014 — This will be the year CNN sees the majority of its online audience come from mobile devices. — There's a level of inevitability to that stat that almost seems boring at this point.

Discussion: @iammobilebob and @niemanlab