Mediagazer: New York Times staffers band together over buyout anxiety (Jeremy Barr/Capital New York)

8:40 AM ET, October 23, 2014

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New York Times staffers band together over buyout anxiety — A group of New York Times employees acted en masse to request packages detailing the buyout packages they would qualify for if they applied for them in a round of buyouts announced by the newspaper earlier this fall, several employees confirmed to Capital.

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
More than 300 New York Times staffers express interest in buyouts

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, @meena_thiru, @mattzeitlin, FishbowlNY and MediaWire Daily

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets in search results without compensation — German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight — A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed …

Discussion: Gigaom and @stkonrath

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Comcast 3Q Net Income Soars Nearly 50% On Tax Adjustment, NBCU Results — Cable and entertainment giant Comcast Corp. saw its third-quarter net income soar nearly 50%, thanks to a favorable tax adjustment and improving performance at its NBCUniversal unit. The Philadelphia...

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, New York Times, The Wrap, Deadline, Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press and Wall Street Journal

Gay Alcorn / Guardian:

Lachlan Murdoch attacks special laws to jail journalists for up to 10 years — ‘Our freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not things we should blindly entrust to anyone’ — Lachlan Murdoch has attacked new laws that could see journalists jailed for up to 10 years if they disclose information …

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald and 9news.com.au

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter.:

Reporter quits Sun-Times, cites ‘chilling effect in the newsroom’ — Chicago Sun-Times reporter Dave McKinney has resigned from the newspaper, saying, “I'm convinced this newspaper no longer has the backs of reporters like me” in a letter to Michael Ferro, chairman of Sun-Times owner Wrapports LLC.

Tilmann Knoll / INMA:

Media organizations compete with and need to learn from tech start-ups in recruiting young talent — How much start-up culture do we need to attract young talent? — Young professionals seek careers in start-ups because they want to work in a creative environment while playing a direct role in shaping a company's future.

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

CBS News readies 24-hour ‘CBSN’ digital network — CBS News 24-hour digital news channel will be called CBSN, Capital has learned, and the network is preparing to launch a marketing campaign around it, a source told Capital, featuring the tagline “CBS News. Always On.”

Discussion: TVNewser and @alexweprin

Max Read / Gawker:

Gawker posts belated retort to Gamergate campaign targeting advertisers and partners, says thousands in revenue lost — How We Got Rolled by the Dishonest Fascists of Gamergate — On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers …

Discussion: Ars Technica, @voxday, @nero, @jayrosen_nyu, @max_read, @_icze4r, @caityweaver, @20committee, Business Insider, @amandamarcotte, @swin24, @stephentotilo, @jfairbairn, @tomgara, @pbump, @theandrewbriggs, @tomewing, @max_read, Re/code, Boing Boing and The Verge

Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:

Michael Wolff on HBO, CBS Streaming: TV Is Disrupting the Internet — Streaming services from the two networks don't signal television's capitulation to Netflix and the web; it's actually the opposite, as the medium expands yet again to gobble up more revenue

Discussion: @jmmandel, @natjarv, @michaelwolffnyc and @michaelwolffnyc

Tim Herrera / Washington Post:

Inside the contradictory world of Thought Catalog, one of the Internet's most reviled sites — “Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural,” and “Ferguson, Missouri Looks Like A Rap Video”: So declared headlines on two consecutive days this past August from early adulthood-angst purveyor Thought Catalog, a Web site for and by millennials.

Discussion: @newsliteracy

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

How Entertainment Companies Are Fighting Lawsuits Over Disclosures of Who's Watching — As HBO, CBS and ESPN launch online subscription services, they will have to be mindful of a 1988 law that has sparked widespread privacy claims — It's no secret that privacy is a scorching hot issue in the tech world …

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

New media and legacy media came together at the second weekend-long “hackathon” hosted by the Society for News Design. — The Society for News Design hosted its second #SNDMakes hackathon in Boston this past weekend. The last iteration of the event was held in Indianapolis …