Mediagazer: Journalist Mohamed Shamsan and three media workers for Yemen Today killed in air strike; at least 10 other staffers injured (Committee to Protect Journalists)

5:40 PM ET, April 21, 2015

Top News:

Facebook tweaks News Feed to show more status updates from friends in lieu of liked stories, says post reach and referral traffic to publishers could decline — News Feed FYI: Balancing Content from Friends and Pages — Facebook is constantly evaluating what's the right mix of content …

Discussion: SocialTimes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, Mashable, GeekWire, @mathewi, @trevortimm, Business Insider, @pkafka, @atotalmonet, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @kevinroose, @warjesseagle, @heyveronica, @bmorrissey, The Verge and Search Engine Land, Thanks:@steverubel

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Facebook needs to answer questions about news, including what it's optimizing for, how it sees its role, and how it will use its power — “It's not that we control NewsFeed, you control NewsFeed...” Facebook: please stop with this. — Of course Facebook doesn't “edit” …

Discussion: @mathewi, @ryanlcooper, @nisalahe, @jonathanstray, @scottros and @jayrosen_nyu

George Brock:
Facebook's director of news and global media partnerships, Andy Mitchell, deflects questions about the social giant's role as a gatekeeper of news

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Roger Yu / USA Today:

Gannett to change name to TEGNA amid print unit spinoff — Gannett, the media company that owns USA TODAY and local newspapers and television stations across the country, said Tuesday it'll rename itself TEGNA, reflecting its future as a broadcasting and digital company that will shed publishing businesses.

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Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal: Gannett Q1 revenue ahead of company split rose 4.9% to $1.47B; $0.49 EPS, beating estimates; broadcast revenue up 3.8%, publishing revenue down 8.8%

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Mediagazer introduces ads for media jobs, and Techmeme's job ads now extend to its mobile site — For nearly four years, Techmeme has offered space on our front page for companies to advertise that they're hiring, and link their job offerings. Unlike typical job boards …

Discussion: @marccanter4real, @michaelcarusi, @hornokplease, @nickbilton, @megan, @fmanjoo, @gaberivera, @fmanjoo and @martinsfp

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

After the launch of its long-awaited web redesign, The Wall Street Journal hopes to spur innovation — Edward Roussel said it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this past year “the busiest 12-month period in The Wall Street Journal's history” as the Journal has built out WSJD …

Discussion: Media Wire Daily, Nieman Lab, E& and @niemanlab

Jordan Weissmann / Slate:

2015 Pulitzer winner Rob Kuznia now works in PR because he couldn't make a living in journalism — One of Today's Pulitzer Prize Winners Left Journalism Because It Couldn't Pay His Rent. Now He's in PR. — A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading Tweets. It Also Ate This Guy's Lunch.

Jack Shafer / Politico:
Don't hate the arbitrary Pulitzers; hate deferential journalists who use prizes for validation instead of finding it in their work

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Erik Larson / Bloomberg Business:

Aereo to settle broadcasters' copyright claims of more than $99M for $950K — Aereo Settles Broadcasters' Claims for Penny on the Dollar — Aereo Inc. agreed to pay CBS Corp. and other broadcasters a total of $950,000 to resolve copyright claims totaling more than $99 million …

Discussion: The Verge, Plagiarism Today and Consumerist

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

Yahoo reports revenues for Q1 of $1.04B, down from $1.08B a year ago, and $0.15 EPS, missing $0.18 EPS estimate; mobile GAAP revenue reached $234M, up 61% YoY — Yahoo reports low revenues of $1.04B and $0.15 EPS for Q1, sending stock down 1.5% — Yahoo announced its first quarter earnings today …

Discussion: The Wrap, TechCrunch, Re/code, Business Insider, Re/code, AdExchanger, @amir and @amir

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Daily Show going on hiatus starting Aug 6th until it relaunches with Trevor Noah as host — Jon Stewart's last ‘Daily Show’: Aug. 6 — For a couple of months, there's been haggling inside Comedy Central about precisely when Jon Stewart will depart “The Daily Show.” — Now we know the answer: August 6.

Discussion: The Verge, Forbes, USA Today, Gothamist, Variety, Rolling Stone, @patkiernan, Refinery29, Broadcasting & Cable and Mediaite

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Esquire Takes 'What I've Learned' Feature to Medium — Esquire is launching a content partnership with Medium, the digital publishing platform founded by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, through which the Hearst-owned title will present audio recordings of interviews …

Discussion: @digitalshields, @maura, @myurow and @katelaurielee

Sky News:

Sky Reports Near-70% Rise In New Customers — Fortitude was Sky Atlantic's most successful original drama — Sky has announced a big rise in new customer numbers, alongside financial results showing growth in both revenue and profits for its first nine months.

Kate Holton / Reuters:
Sky reports £1.03B operating profit in Q3, up 20% YoY, sends shares to 14-year high

Discussion: Broadband TV News, Hollywood Reporter, Advanced Television, RTTNews, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg Business, BBC, City A.M., Reuters, Financial Times, dailyrecord, Telegraph and Guardian

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vice launches personal finance YouTube show, “The Business of Life”, with journalist Michael C. Moynihan — Vice News to Bow Personal-Finance Show for Millennials, Sponsored by Bank of America — Vice News this week will launch a personal-finance talk show on YouTube …

Discussion: @mccarthyryanj, @loupas, @tomgara, @mcmoynihan, @aakankshat, @timdonnelly, @mradamtaylor and @abnormalreturns

Guardian:

Piers Morgan questioned for a second time over phone-hacking allegations — Former Mirror editor, who is now a TV host and editor-at-large of Mail Online in the US, has always denied he was personally involved in hacking — Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and television host …

Discussion: @piersmorgan and Guido Fawkes

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalist Mohamed Shamsan and three media workers for Yemen Today killed in air strike; at least 10 other staffers injured — Journalist, media workers killed in air strike in Yemen — A TV journalist and three staff members of the satellite TV station Yemen Today were killed in an air strike …

Discussion: @leilanazzar, @gesfandiari and New York Times

Sam Thielman / Guardian:

Wall Street divided over chances of Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger — Comcast prepares to argue its case with Department of Justice on Wednesday for controversial $45.2bn deal that would give it two-thirds of US broadband market — As Comcast prepares to meet with the Department of Justice …

Discussion: Free Press Blog, Bloomberg View and Variety

Jim Romenesko:

Tulsa World loses four journalists to former World publisher's soon-to-launch news site — I've confirmed that the ex-World journalists have joined an enterprise/investigative news site being launched by Robert (Bobby) Lorton III, who was the World's CEO and publisher before Warren Buffett's BH Media bought the paper in 2013.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, @tjclark and @romenesko