Mediagazer: Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52X (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

10:05 PM ET, October 21, 2014

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Robert G. Kaiser / Washington Post:

Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93 — Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Post's transformation into one of the world's leading newspapers, died Oct. 21 at his home in Washington of natural causes. He was 93.

David Remnick / New Yorker:

The Bradlee tales: He protected reporters, colored his speech with salty language, and showed neither self-doubt nor self-restraint — Postscript: Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) — Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, the most charismatic and consequential newspaper editor of postwar America, died at the age of ninety-three on Tuesday.

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Bloomberg hires Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal to edit new site focusing on markets and economics, host TV show — Bloomberg Drops Huge Cash, Poaches Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal To Host New TV Show — Joe Weisenthal, executive editor of Business Insider, is leaving the company.

Discussion: New York Times, Capital New York, The New York Observer, @thestalwart, @daveweigel, @hblodget, @thestalwart, @mmasnick and Talking Biz News

Rebecca Carroll / The New Republic:

I'm a Black Journalist. I'm Quitting Because I'm Tired of Newsroom Racism. — My first job in media was as a television producer. I was 28 years old, eager and brimming with ideas, some of which I'm sure were good and others of which I'm sure were not. Not long after starting the job …

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NABJ boss says CNN essentially called him a liar in dispute over diversity

Discussion: @nabj, @tvnewslady and The Wrap

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52X — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Guardian touts ComScore win over New York Times — The Guardian says it has for the first time surpassed The New York Times on a prominent web-measurement firm's Internet traffic ranking. — For the month of September, roughly 42.6 million people over the age of 15 accessed …

Discussion: Guardian, @mathewi, @jeffjarvis and FishbowlNY

D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:

Postmedia's Montreal Gazette launches Apple Newsstand afternoon tablet magazine — New iPad-only magazine will appear every Monday through Friday at 6pm, with subscriptions free for readers of the English language newspaper — The Montreal Gazette, the English language newspaper owned …

Slate:

Librarians Are Dedicated to User Privacy. The Tech They Have to Use Is Not. — Adobe has made it extremely easy for unwanted eyes to read over the shoulders of library patrons. Earlier this month reports surfaced about how Adobe's Digital Editions e-book software collects and transmits information about readers in plain text.

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Rival news outlets team up to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign data — Light everywhere: The California Civic Data Coalition wants to make public datasets easier to crunch — When Meg Whitman ran for governor of California in 2010, she donated $144 million of her own money to her campaign.

Discussion: @meghanncir, @palewire, @laura_nelson, @mattdrange, @niemanlab and @niemanlab

Robert Feder:

Stop the presses: Tribune buying Sun-Times suburban newspapers — In a blockbuster deal that could change the Chicago journalism landscape, the parent company of the Sun-Times plans to sell all of its suburban daily and weekly newspapers to Tribune Publishing, sources said.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Express titles may cut number of pages by up to a quarter — Richard Desmond papers believed to be cutting pagination as part of savings drive that also led to voluntary redundancies — Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers is understood to be planning to cut pagination for its four titles by up to 25% …

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Poynter to host African journalists turned away from USF St. Petersburg — The Poynter Institute will host a group of Edward R. Murrow journalists from African countries whose visit to the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg was canceled because of concerns about spread of the Ebola virus …

Ari Levy / CNBC:

With 76.4M users listening to 5B hours of radio, mostly on mobile devices, Pandora capitalizes on data to attract political ads — Political ads flood Pandora before mid-terms — If you live in Florida and spend much time on Pandora's streaming service, chances are you're hearing a lot of “Rick Scott for Governor” commercials.

Discussion: @edwinposton and New York Times

Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:

Ebola Deeply mixes curation and reporting, expanding Lara Setrakian's pop-up news site model — Ebola Deeply builds on the lessons of single-subject news sites: A news operation with an expiration date — A contagious disease outbreak seems like a good time for some explanatory journalism.