Mediagazer: Hello Mediaite Changes! And Farewell to Tommy Christopher (Bridget Williams/Mediaite)

4:25 PM ET, February 25, 2014

Top News:

Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:

Owner of Twitter parody account @GSElevator is John Lefevre, a former bond executive who has never worked at Goldman Sachs — @GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator) — A three-year parlor game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify …

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

No, Margaret Sullivan, Goldman Sachs Never Banned Talking In Elevators — New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in today on DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin's unmasking of the titanically unfunny Twitter account @GSElevator, which purported to publish conversations overheard …

Discussion: @pkafka, @mattzeitlin, @rubinafillion and @moorehn

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Two years ago the New York Times erroneously reported that John Lefevre worked at Goldman — The Goldman Sachs Elevator Stalker Is Revealed — as a Fibber — It's safe to talk on the elevator again at Goldman Sachs. The author of a snarky Twitter feed — @gselevator …

Discussion: Mediaite, @jswatz, @felixsalmon, @nytfridge, @mattfleg, @tomgara, cnbc.com, @jayrosen_nyu, @willystaley, DealBook and Business Insider

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bloomberg View relaunches on its own — Bloomberg View is getting a makeover. — The online opinion play, which was created by Bloomberg L.P. in 2011 as a complement to the company's news products, is set to relaunch at 9:30 a.m. with a slick, mobile-friendly layout and its own URL, bloombergview.com.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @annecronin

Joanna Plucinska / Columbia Journalism Review:

Panelists at Columbia's J-school discussed how protests both encourage journalism and harm journalists — Panelists at Columbia's J-school discussed how protests both encourage journalism and harm journalists — Violent protests around the world may attract media attention and political change …

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Reddit embraces its role as a journalistic entity with new live-reporting feature — Some critics may see Reddit as a more restrained version of the online community 4chan — a place for nerds to talk about Star Trek or whatever the latest meme is — but the site has also become a place …

Discussion: The Verge, @willmcavoyacn, @jesseholcomb, @elanazak, @craigewer and @jaredbkeller, Thanks:@mathewi

Tim Baysinger / Broadcasting & Cable:

Meyers' ‘Late Night’ Debut Tops Fallon — ‘Tonight Show’ dips but still up over season average — Seth Meyers' debut Monday as host of Late Night drew a 2.6 overnight rating in metered-markets, according to Nielsen. That was up 13% from what Jimmy Fallon drew in his Late Night debut in March 2009.

Discussion: Speakeasy and Softpedia News

Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
Seth Meyers' ‘Late Night’ debut an understated affair

Discussion: USA Today, The Daily Beast, PopWatch, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Reporter, TIME, Newsday, Hollywood Life, Mediaite, Variety and Associated Press

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Richard Just, New National Journal Editor, Plans To ‘Reinvent’ Magazine — NEW YORK — Richard Just, the former top editor of The New Republic and Newsweek, has been named editor of National Journal. Just will oversee the print magazine and report to Editor-in-Chief Tim Grieve.

Discussion: Politico, LA Observed, NationalJournal.com and FishbowlDC

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The return of Newsweek — On March 7, one year and two months from the publication of what was to be its final print issue, copies of Newsweek will once again hit newsstands. There will just be a lot fewer of them—several hundred thousand in the U.S. and abroad.

Discussion: @monteiro, @capitalnewyork, @antderosa, @mlcalderone, @miamijournalism and @bendwalsh

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Ukrainian journalists work together to preserve documents for YanukovychLeaks … A group of Ukrainian journalists spent the weekend working to preserve “tens of thousands of documents” that were dumped in a reservoir behind the abandoned estate of fleeing Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych …

Discussion: Global Investigative …, WorldViews, @michaelroston, kyivpost.com, Mashable and The Newspaper Guild

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

AT&T, Verizon may join Comcast in Netflix streaming deal — AT&T and Verizon Communications may be the next big Internet service providers to strike a deal with Netflix to provide a direct connection from the video service to broadband customers. — On Monday, a day after Netflix announced …

Discussion: Featured stories, Light Reading, Consumerist, The Switch, Softpedia News, Re/code, @pkafka, Digiday, Reuters, Radio & Television …, @lessien, Free Press, Mashable, Engadget, @kateaurthur, CNBC and The Verge

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Why Netflix Is Actually the Big Winner in the Comcast Bandwidth Deal

Discussion: AdAge, Nieman Journalism Lab, Gigaom, Forbes, Guardian, Engadget, Deadline.com, Home Media Magazine, @xpangler and Dan Rayburn

Bob Garfield / Guardian:

If native advertising is so harmless, why does it need to mislead readers? — It's hard to read the latest gimmick for infusing a dying industry with cash as anything other than journalism selling its soul — The devil walks into a bar and sits at a table with eight newspaper …

Discussion: @johnrobinson and @leshinton

Bridget Williams / Mediaite:

Hello Mediaite Changes! And Farewell to Tommy Christopher — One thing you can always count on when you visit Mediaite.com is a cacophony of voices across the political spectrum. During 2014, expect to see even more of that. We are going to bring you the best, the worst, the smartest takes …

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and @criticjane

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Washington Post's Tim Lee defects to Ezra Klein's ‘Project X’ — Washington Post loses another to Ezra, builds overnight team — Yet another Washington Post staffer has defected to Ezra Klein's new Vox Media project: Tim Lee, who briefly served on Klein's Wonkblog before launching …

Discussion: @mlcalderone and @jeffjohnroberts

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Disney Goes Where No Other Studio Has Gone: An iTunes Movie Storage Deal — When Disney unveils its new cloud-based movie service Tuesday, it will be able to boast about a partner that has eluded all of its peers - Apple. Disney Movies Anywhere will enable users to stream or download Disney movies …