Mediagazer: Slate Hires NPR Sports Reporter To Boost Its Podcast Business (Aaron Taube/Business Insider)

6:25 PM ET, February 11, 2014

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Adam Weinstein / Gawker:

Business Insider Changed its Story on Buzzfeed — Yesterday, Business Insider chief correspondent Nicholas Carlson stuck a subtle shiv into his competitors at Buzzfeed, attributing the site's success in exploiting Facebook's ever-evolving newsfeed algorithm to its practice of buying traffic …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Buzzfeed CEO: Here's Why Facebook Isn't Crushing Us — In December, Facebook changed its News Feed algorithm to favor more “high quality” news over “memes.” — Looking at a bunch of charts yesterday, we found this change correlated with a sudden and massive drop in traffic to Upworthy and several viral news sites.

Discussion: @timherrera, @newswhip, @moneyries, @mims, @dskok, WebProNews, Mediawire Daily and Business Insider

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US — English and Chinese language queries for terms like ‘Dalai Lama’ return radically different results on Microsoft search engine — Microsoft's search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users …

Discussion: Quartz

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith: Expect Splashier Storytelling on Bloomberg TV — Appeal to Broader Business Audience Also Likely — Justin Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is slated to wrap up a 100-day review of the company in the coming weeks, when he is expected to offer recommendations …

Discussion: TVNewser, FishbowlNY, @justin_b_smith, Mediawire Daily, Talking Biz News and Capital New York

Michael Melia / Associated Press:

Drones Create New Ethical Minefields For Journalists — HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As police responded to a deadly car crash, they noticed an increasingly familiar sight: a remote-controlled aircraft, equipped with a video camera, hovering over the wreckage. — The Federal Aviation Administration …

Matt Waite / Drone Journalism Lab: Drones, journalism, the FAA and the crackdown that isn't a crackdown

Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:

Carl Bernstein Joins CNN as a Contributor — CNN's political additions continue with legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein joining as a contributor, substitute anchor John Berman announced on “AC360″ last night. — Bernstein was an analyst for CNN during the 2008 election season …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post and FishbowlDC

Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:

Mozilla To Sell Ads In Firefox Web Browser — Mozilla Will Serve Ads Within Tiles Of Its New Tab Pages — Mozilla will soon sell ads within its Firefox browser, the company announced Tuesday. — Wait, what? Mozilla made itself the villian of the online ad business early last year …

Discussion: Advancing Content, ZDNet, Consumerist, Mashable, Marketing Pilgrim and mUmBRELLA

Michael Rondon / Folio:

Time Warner, Condé Nast Invest in Ad Tech Co. — Programmatic direct firm, iSocket, looking to expand partnerships. — Time Warner, parent (for now) of Time Inc., and Condé Nast have joined in on in a $5 million round of funding for programmatic ad developer, iSocket, the firm announced Monday.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Gawker creates a new writer pipeline with “Recruits” — The path to enter the journalism business is changing. Some media companies are abandoning unpaid internships; others are terming them reporting fellowships. — Enter Gawker, which is adding a new metaphor to the game by creating a new “Recruits” program.

Aaron Taube / Business Insider:

Slate Hires NPR Sports Reporter To Boost Its Podcast Business — The online magazine Slate will bolster its roster of popular podcasts with a daily current events commentary show hosted by National Public Radio sports correspondent Mike Pesca, a spokesperson for the site told Business Insider.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, @timothynoah1 and @josh_levin

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Says Verizon Isn't Slowing Down Its Streams — A federal court may have given the pipe guys clearance to start slowing down Web services like Netflix. — But so far, that's not happening, Netflix says. — That update comes to us via a note from J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Techdirt, PandoDaily and The Verge

David Sirota / PandoDaily:

Old media outlets collude with politicians to protect monopoly, punish media startups — Here's some good recent news for free-speech advocates: A federal court recently ruled that bloggers, online journalists and the public at large enjoy the same protections as legacy news outlets do when facing defamation lawsuits.

Discussion: Free Press Blog, @davidsirota, @mathewi, @digiphile and @jayrosen_nyu

Guardian:

AP launches investigation after finding images of Fidel Castro were digitally manipulated — Ear one minute, gone the next: Fidel Castro's hearing aid Photoshopped out — The Guardian has been a vocal proponent of, and active adherent to, the ideals of the open web.

Discussion: Daily Mail, UK - The Huffington Post, The Voice of Russia, News, iMediaEthics, The Independent, NBC News, Gizmodo and Associated Press

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Supreme Court will hear Aereo on April 22 with one Justice sitting out — Aereo is a scrappy startup service that delivers over-the-air TV to computers and mobile devices for $8/month. But it is also a strategic weapon that media mogul Barry Diller and other well-heeled investors want to use …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, The Wrap, Variety, Home Media Magazine, Radio & Television …, @b_fung, Broadcast and SCOTUSblog

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Capital NY Tweaks Prices Ahead of Paywall — Capital New York has tweaked its pricing as it prepares to start charging for e-newsletters and news coverage today (Feb. 11), making it the latest startup to test consumers' willingness pay for news. — The experiment will no doubt be closely watched …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Reuters:

Charter names board nominees to Time Warner Cable, begins proxy battle — (Reuters) - Charter Communications Inc upped its pressure on Time Warner Cable to accept its $37.3 billion (22.6 billion pounds) hostile takeover bid for Time Warner Cable by announcing a slate of 13 nominees to the larger cable operator's board on Tuesday.