Top News:
Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Bloomberg to lay off about 100 editorial employees — Bloomberg is planning to slim its ranks, sources said on Wednesday. — The financial media giant, which employs about 2,700 journalists across the globe, is planning to lay off about 100 employees, or about 3.7 percent …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Poynter and @mlcalderone
Chris Ariens / FishbowlNY:
Daily News No Longer For Sale — Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman has called off the sale of the nearly 100-year-old New York newspaper. “For a variety of reasons, I have decided to withdraw the Daily News from the market,” Zuckerman writes in a memo to staffers obtained by FishbowlNY
Discussion:
New York Times, Politico, @brianstelter and @joepompeo
Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Weather Channel hires bankers to explore sale, is considering selling only its digital business — Weather Channel Said to Hire Morgan Stanley, PJT to Seek Sale — The owners of the Weather Channel have hired the banks Morgan Stanley and PJT Partners Inc. to explore a sale, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion:
CNNMoney, Poynter, Business Insider, @edmundlee, @brianstelter and Deadline
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Organized labor movements and rapid expansion through investment are at odds in digital media companies — As Investors Circle, Organized Labor Moves Into Digital Media — Vice Media's recent move is part of a broader unionization push at outlets as the industry also seeks investments
Gene Demby / Race : NPR:
The unrelenting struggles, trauma, and emotional fatigue endured by black reporters on the ‘black death’ beat — How Black Reporters Report On Black Death — On an unbearably hot August afternoon last summer, I was walking along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo. …
Discussion:
@bimadew, @propublica, @eilatan, @johnedwinmason, @atotalmonet, @tasneemraja, Talking Points Memo, @justinnxt, @jbouie, @jamilsmith and @byjoelanderson
Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
ProPublica receives $2.2 million from Knight Foundation to expand audience engagement efforts — The Knight Foundation announced Thursday that it would be providing ProPublica with $2.2 million in funding. The money will be aimed toward helping the investigative non-profit improve …
Discussion:
Nieman Lab and Knight Foundation
Los Angeles Times:
Times reaffirms decision that Ted Rall's blog post did not meet its standards — A blog post by political cartoonist Ted Rall, and a subsequent note to readers by Nicholas Goldberg, editor of The Times' editorial pages, have occasioned questions from readers. Below is a detailed look at the matter by Times editors.
Discussion:
CounterPunch, aNewDomain, @mattwelch and Ted Rall's Rallblog
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Journalists charged £100 to cover Notting Hill Carnival and told to share work with organisers — Journalists wishing to cover the Notting Hill Carnival are being asked by organisers to pay an accreditation fee of £100 and to share their articles, photographs and video with them.
Discussion:
BT.com, Amateur Photographer, Guardian and HoldTheFrontPage
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Ashley Madison owner Avid Life Media sent DMCA takedown request for tweets showing company details — Ashley Madison Sent Me a DMCA Request for Tweeting 2 Cells of a Spreadsheet — As journalists (and probably criminals) dig through the cache of internal documents and customer data leaked …
Discussion:
Mashable, Krebs on Security, @dellcam, @glichfield, @munin, @dangillmor, @digiphile, The Verge and Techdirt
Margarita Barrero / INMA:
Journalists at El Colombiano add readers' comments to a Twitter story, which later appears in both print and digital newspapers — El Colombiano reaches new audiences through Twitter storytelling — Twittercrónica is a story-telling tool born in the Internet.
Discussion:
@mathewi
Myles Udland / Business Insider:
Chart from Wall Street research firm Pacific Crest shows top eight cable providers saw subscriptions fall 463K in Q2 2015 up from decline of 141K in Q2 2014 — This is the scariest chart in the history of cable TV. — What we're looking at here, via Wall Street research firm Pacific Crest …
James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Latest Sky+ update includes watch list, recommendations, Rotten Tomato ratings, on-demand features and more as it competes with internet services — Sky adds Netflix-style features to Movies as it competes with internet services — Recommendation and on-demand features introduced as broadcaster faces rising on-demand competition
Discussion:
Sky News, TechRadar.com, IP&TV News, Gizmodo UK, Pocket-lint, Dailystar.co.uk, The Next Web, Guardian and Engadget