Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:30 AM ET, October 25, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Peter Sterne / Politico:
The New York Times will add new product verticals to The Wirecutter, Sweethome, is already hiring more staff, has no plans to put the sites behind a paywall  —  A little less than a year ago, The New York Times began thinking about what it would be like if it did Consumer Reports-style product recommendations, Ben French told POLITICO.
RELATED:
Peter Kafka / Recode:
The New York Times acquires online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M  —  The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide.  The Times will pay more than $30 million …
Matt Haughey / 15 Minutes in the Morning:
How Brian Lam built The Wirecutter, rejecting ads as a revenue stream, opting for affiliate links instead; site is projected to do $200M this year in sales  —  I was happy to read that the New York Times bought Brian Lam's Wirecutter and Sweethome sites for $30 million today.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart coordinated with liberal activist and organizer Aaron Black who disrupted GOP primary campaign events, was involved in Project Veritas DNC sting  —  A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover …
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Trump's campaign launches nightly news show on Facebook Live, hosted by advisers Boris Epshteyn and Cliff Sims, with TheBlaze commentator Tomi Lahren  —  Welcome to the Donald Trump show!  —  Tonight, the Trump campaign is kicking off a show that will air on the candidate's Facebook page every night …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings open to AT&T Time Warner merger if net neutrality is upheld  —  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings signaled that his company wasn't outright opposing the AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner at the Wall Street Journal's WSJ.D Live conference in Laguna Beach, California Monday night.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
A.G. Sulzberger on his new role as the NYT's deputy publisher, the conclusion of the 20/20 report, and job cuts coming to the newsroom in 2017  —  Talk about having your work cut out for you.  —  In a few days, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger will start as deputy publisher for The New York Times …
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Impress becomes UK's first state-approved press regulator after application for Royal Charter recognition is granted  —  Impress today became the UK's first state-approved press regulator after its application for Royal Charter recognition was granted.  —  After a full day of discussion around whether …
Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
Woman at center of Rolling Stone story, “Jackie” says she cannot recall details about assault due to PTSD, didn't know her account was to be main focus of story  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The woman who claimed she was brutally gang raped in a story by Rolling Stone magazine …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Financial Times removed words from stories to convince readers to whitelist its site.  47% agreed  —  Hope isn't lost for media organizations trying to get readers to stop blocking their ads.  Maybe all they have to do is ask.  —  In July, The Financial Times ran a 30-day experiment …
Discussion: Press Gazette
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:30 AM ET, October 25, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Interview with Keith Olbermann on The Closer, his GQ election season video series, which has attracted about 25M views over more than 20 installments
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Lawyers for Adnan Syed, whose murder case was spotlighted on Serial in 2014, have asked a Maryland court that he be released on bail while he awaits new trial
 Earlier Picks: 
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump's alt-right supporters have adopted a term popular during the Nazi regime, “lügenpresse,” meaning “lying press” in German, to discredit the media
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson vows to maintain CNN's independence if AT&T-Time Warner merger succeeds, following concerns from ex-CNN president Tom Johnson
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Newsroom memo: Gannett to lay off another 2% of its workforce, about 350 or more positions in total
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page