Mediagazer: Texas Monthly to file lawsuit over hiring of Jake Silverstein as editor of NYT Magazine (Leslie Kaufman/New York Times)

8:55 PM ET, April 11, 2014

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Texas Monthly to file lawsuit over hiring of Jake Silverstein as editor of NYT Magazine — Texas Monthly to Sue New York Times Over Magazine Editor — The publisher of the Texas Monthly is expected to file a lawsuit against The New York Times and Jake Silverstein, the Monthly's editor …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Texas Monthly owner: We aren't suing Jake Silverstein — AUSTIN, TEX.—Texas Monthly parent company Emmis Publishing tells Capital that they're not suing outgoing editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein over his decision to accept a job with The New York Times as the editor of its Sunday magazine.

Discussion: @jackshafer

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: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Business Insider

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Henry Waxman asks Tribune CEO to reconsider newspaper spinoff — U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman has sent a letter to Tribune Co. CEO Peter Liguori saying interviews with experts “raised serious concerns about the future of the Los Angeles Times” should the company go ahead with its plan to spin off its newspaper division.

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing to take on $325 million in debt — Tribune Publishing, the newspaper division of Chicago-based Tribune Co., will carry at least $325 million of debt when it spins off as a standalone company, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.

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, @ryanchittum, @penenberg, @raju and @digiday

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Appeals court reverses hacker/troll “weev” conviction and sentence [Updated] — Appeals court skirts Computer Fraud And Abuse Act analysis. — A federal appeals court Friday reversed and vacated the conviction and sentence of hacker and Internet troll Andrew “weev” Auernheimer.

Discussion: TechCrunch, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, @kmactane, @falconred, Reuters, Engadget, Forbes, Guardian, Washington Post and Techdirt

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. …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Gawker and @alexweprin

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CBS' Leslie Moonves paid $67 million in 2013; Redstone gets $57 million

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:

Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian dedicate award to Snowden — The journalists who first revealed the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities on Friday dedicated a prestigious award to their source, Edward Snowden. — Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, RT, The Republic, VentureBeat and Daily Dot

BuzzFeed:

“Metro” Editor Kenny Campbell Leaves Newspaper — Editor of the free newspaper leaves after 13 years. — Metro editor Kenny Campbell has left the free newspaper after 13 years. — Campbell had been editor of the UK's biggest free newspaper since 2001. — He has confirmed to BuzzFeed that he has now left the newspaper.

Discussion: @richjm

Press Association:
Metro editor Kenny Campbell to be replaced by NY Daily News' Ted Young

Discussion: Guardian

Gordon Russell / The New Orleans Advocate:

Times-Picayune gives judge data on two online commenters — Judge reviewing facts after newspaper exhausts appeals — After apparently exhausting every avenue of appeal, The Times-Picayune on Thursday gave a federal magistrate “voluminous” information about two pseudonymous commenters …

Discussion: @mikescarcella, @gordonrussell1, @niemanlab and @jbenton

Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Facebook report shows where and how often it blocked illegal content — Facebook's plan isn't a secret: Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, be it through the website proper or a buzzy, expensive mobile messaging app. Breaking down communication barriers also means some of the company's millions …

Discussion: Facebook, The Next Web and The Verge

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

IAC bought 11% of Tinder from Palihapitiya for only $55M, valuating company at $500M — Hot But Not That Hot: Tinder Stake Sale Puts Valuation of Whole Startup at $500 Million — As in dating online, a Bloomberg report from earlier today that put the valuation of popular dating app Tinder …

Discussion: Forbes, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Fortune and VentureBeat

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.

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

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

AP will livestream Anja Niedringhaus' funeral — The Associated Press will livestream the funeral of photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus on Saturday. The service will take place near Hoexter, Germany, where she was born. … Niedringhaus was shot and killed Friday, April 4 …

Discussion: ap.org

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Why The Seattle Times lowered its paywall during the mudslide — but not completely — The mudslide near Oso, Wash., on March 22 and its aftermath commanded national attention, but one local news organization was in position to own the story. — That meant The Seattle Times had a decision to make …

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Ipso or the charter? Press regulation refuseniks should avoid both — What, asked a BBC interviewer, will happen to press regulation now that Maria Miller has gone? Answer: not much. In fact, the arrival of the new culture and media secretary, Sajid Javid, will not make any difference at all.

Discussion: @charliebeckett

Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
The IMPRESS Project's plans for press regulation

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's<br …

Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:

Weibo's content gap: just 5% of users post nearly all original content — Another scathing report documenting Sina Weibo's decline hit the press yesterday, just one week before the Twitter of China lists on the US stock market. — This one comes from the South China Morning Post via Hong …

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities — Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit's biggest strength. Introduced in 2008, they're a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper off.

Discussion: Re/code, Mashable, The Next Web and Electronista

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