Mediagazer: Bloomberg hires Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal to edit new site focusing on markets and economics, host TV show (Nicholas Carlson/Business Insider)

7:15 PM ET, October 21, 2014

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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, @mmasnick, @thestalwart, @daveweigel, @hblodget 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

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, FishbowlNY, @mathewi and @jeffjarvis

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.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, The Huffington Post, @kbernot, @dodgerman, @bellwak, @phil_rosenthal, @ourmaninchicago, @coloneltribune, @jeffwisser, @edcurran and @me3dia

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.

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, 10,000 Words, @brizzyc, CNN, Forbes, @bbccollege, @hermida, @sonipaul, @almarlatour, @davewiner and Code Words

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.

Discussion: @kansasalps and @queenofrats

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Pew Study: Liberals and conservatives inhabit different media worlds with little overlap in trusted news sources — Media habits of liberals, conservatives: ‘different worlds’ — Ever wonder why your avowed-conservative brother and fervently-liberal aunt can't even seem to agree on the facts?

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

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

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.

Discussion: AdAge, Forbes, AdExchanger, @jguynn, Bloomberg, Re/code, TheStreet.com and Business Insider

Associated Press:

Egyptian court sets Jan. 1, 2015, appeal date for jailed Al Jazeera journalists — Egypt sets appeal hearing for Al-Jazeera staff — CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court has set an appeals hearing for three Al-Jazeera English journalists convicted of terrorism-related charges last June amid widespread international condemnation.

Discussion: BBC, Al Jazeera English and Reuters

Publishers Weekly:

E-book publisher Atavist Books to close by end of the year — Atavist Books to Close — Atavist Books, a multiplatform book company formed by media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp, film producer Scott Rudin, and former Picador publisher Frances Coady in September 2012, will shutter at the end of the year.

Discussion: Digital Book World, @glecharles and New York Magazine