Mediagazer: Digital First Media Names David J. Butler Editor-in-Chief (Digital First Media)

11:55 AM ET, April 11, 2014

Top News:

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Inside The New Yorker's digital strategy — The New Yorker, ambling at its own pace, is busy upping its digital game. — Not only has NewYorker.com significantly increased its digital metabolism, but it has also boosted its monthly audience to an excess of 10 million …

Discussion: The Awl, @carr2n, @cotton, @raju, @digiday, @penenberg and @ryanchittum

Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:

Layoffs at Al Jazeera America — As it nears eight months on-air, Al Jazeera America is laying off a few dozen staff employees as well as freelance employees, TVNewser has learned. — In an email to staff we obtained, network President Kate O'Brian said the network has reached a …

Discussion: Business Insider

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

Ezra Klein on Vox's Launch, Media Condescension, and Competing With Wikipedia … Travel Design Dates Weddings Real Estate Doctors NYC Tourist Guide Best Of New York Issue

Discussion: The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, @binarybits, @moorehn, Democracy in America, @joecoscarelli, @jayrosen_nyu, @ejleven, @ezraklein, Mediashift, @carson_smith, @mattzeitlin, @huffpostmedia, @nymag, @mzhemingway and Digiday

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

CBS's Moonves Says Woman Would Be ‘Great’ as ‘Late Late’ Host — CBS (CBS) is considering hiring a woman for “The Late Late Show” as the TV network weighs a complete remodeling of its programming for night owls. — “12:30 is up in the air,” Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp. …

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Colbert Doesn't Arrive at CBS With Huge Viral Video Prowess

Discussion: Washington Post, The Wrap, Mediaite, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times and CBS

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

Michael Wolff's digital media bloopers — The Newser founder trolls (other) digital-news companies — Having accurately predicted that Lachlan Murdoch would return to his dad's company, Michael Wolff, in his exhilaration, made this crack recently: — Good one.

Digital First Media:

Digital First Media Names David J. Butler Editor-in-Chief — David J. Butler has been named Editor-in-Chief for Digital First Media. — New York, NY (April 11, 2014) - Digital First Media today named David J. Butler the Company's Editor-in-Chief. — Mr. Butler, editor of the San Jose Mercury News …

Discussion: Poynter

Judy Cantor-Navas / Billboard:

84% of Content Consumed in Spain is Pirated — 84% of content consumed in Spain is illegal, according to new report that adds more fuel to fiery debate in piracy-plagued country. Eighty-four percent of all online content consumed in Spain is pirated, according to a study …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

DreamWorks submitted a bid to Vevo's owners this week to buy part of the company — DreamWorks Animation Wants a Piece of Vevo, the Music Video Giant — DreamWorks Animation, which has been looking to expand its business beyond animated movies, is looking at Vevo, the online music video service.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

BuzzFeed Inks TV Tune-In Pacts with Bravo, IFC — List-driven social news site BuzzFeed announced deals with NBCUniversal's Bravo and AMC Networks' IFC, under which the cablers are promoting BuzzFeed content on-air and online (and vice versa). — The networks are the first two partners …

Discussion: MediaPost and Wall Street Journal

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Apple bans music app Bloom.fm from running ads on its iAd network — 'We're amused by this rather than frustrated. It's just pretty funny,' says streaming music startup — Bloom.fm was spending around £2,000 a month advertising on Apple's iAd network.

Discussion: @lorialeo, Music Week and hypebot

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

RIAA sues Megaupload over copyright infringement — Kim Dotcom's lawyer dubs allegations “meritless copyright claims.” — Just three days after the Motion Picture Association of America brought a civil lawsuit against Megaupload, the Recording Industry Association of America has jumped in with its own case.

Discussion: CNET, Billboard, Softpedia News, Guardian, Sky News, The Wire, International Business Times, Techworld, TorrentFreak, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, Wall Street Journal, Variety and Engadget

Guardian:

Burma's newspapers run black front pages in protest at journalist arrests — One journalist was imprisoned for ‘disturbing a civil servant’ and trespassing after attempting to interview an education official — Burmese newspapers printed black front pages on Friday in protest …

Discussion: BBC

Ishbel Macleod / The Drum:

BBC celebrates 20 years online: take a look at the changes — Happy 20th online anniversary, BBC! — On 13 April, the BBC Networking Club launched, offering early social networking, bulletin board features and information about the BBC. — Ralph Rivera, director for BBC Future Media …

Discussion: ATV Today

Springwise:

Peekster app lets you take photos of print headlines, returns digital versions to your phone — Scan a printed article's headline, instantly get the digital version — Peekster is an app that enables readers to scan the headline of a print article in order to quickly bring up the digital version …

Discussion: @missmaddie207 and @niemanlab

Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:

The IMPRESS Project's plans for press regulation — Crowdfunding is underway for a press regulation body aimed at supporting smaller publishers and hyperlocal sites as well as larger news outlets. A crowdfunding campaign is aiming to raise £25,000 for a press regulation authority …

Discussion: Guardian