Mediagazer: How Outside magazine's online edition practices diversity and transparency by establishing quotas for new writers, a 50/50 male/female ratio, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

2:00 PM ET, January 26, 2018

Top News:

Jemele Hill, the ESPN anchor called out by Trump in a tweet after she called him a white supremacist, is leaving SportsCenter to join The Undefeated — ESPN's SportsCenter will need a new co-host as Jemele Hill is expected to leave the show for a position with The Undefeated.

Discussion: Variety, CNNMoney, The Wrap, Vox, Mediaite, USA Today, @richarddeitsch, @jamilsmith, AOL, @edgeofsports, New York Post, Awful Announcing, The Big Lead, Decider and The Daily Caller

Will Oremus / Slate:

Google is testing Bulletin, an app for allowing local users to submit stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN and Oakland, CA — Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, The New York Observer, Google, Sami Cone, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Android Police, Search Engine Land, YouTube, 9to5Google and SlashGear, more at Techmeme »

Media Matters for America:

Cable news outlets CNN, Fox, and MSNBC devoted a scant 16+ minutes total to coverage of the Kentucky high school shooting — A deadly shooting rampage at a Kentucky high school that left two students dead and 18 others wounded received minimal coverage on cable news the day of the shooting.

Discussion: @goangelo, New York Times, TIME and New York Times

Reuters:

China's Bytedance partners with BuzzFeed to distribute its content on Toutiao, though how Toutiao will select content not subject to censorship is unclear — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A popular Chinese news portal has signed a deal with U.S. online media company BuzzFeed to distribute …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Sixth Tone and Quartz

Dave McNary / Variety:

Casey Affleck, accused of sexually abusive conduct in 2010, withdraws from customary role of prior year's best actor presenting best actress award at Oscars — Casey Affleck has withdrawn from presenting the best actress award at the March 4 Academy Award ceremonies.

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

CNN reinstates political analyst Ryan Lizza, who was fired by The New Yorker after sexual misconduct allegations — CNN is reinstating Ryan Lizza, the Washington political reporter who was fired from the New Yorker for alleged sexual misconduct. “Upon learning of The New Yorker's decision …

Discussion: @erikwemple, @coreyhutchins and Mediaite

BBC:

Six male BBC on-air presenters agree to pay cuts following the resignation of Carrie Gracie as China editor because of pay inequity — Six of the BBC's leading male presenters have agreed to take pay cuts after revelations over equal salaries. — The BBC said Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell …

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Mail, Sky News, The Independent, @nabihbulos, @marcusjdl, NPR, @datreadway, thecut, Press Gazette, Business Insider, The Guardian and 444

Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

Bloomberg says its Twitter video channel, TicToc, now has 750K daily viewers, 1M daily views, and 119K followers, with half of the audience outside the US — Bloomberg is seeing early signs of success one month after launching TicToc, the business publisher's 24/7 news network exclusive to Twitter.

Discussion: @digiday, @jpodnos, @victorialea13 and @msh200

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

How Outside magazine's online edition practices diversity and transparency by establishing quotas for new writers, a 50/50 male/female ratio, and more — A lot of publications are paying lip service to inclusiveness and diversity. Outside is actually doing it.

Discussion: Folio, @laurahazardowen and Vanity Fair

Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:

Interview with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, on Facebook's News Feed changes and lack of revenue sharing, BuzzFeed's revenue miss in 2017, and more — Photo courtesy BuzzFeed. — BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti is the kind of guy who never sees the cloud, only the silver lining, no matter how dark things get.

Discussion: @liorkodner, @mathewi, @mathewi, @youngvulgarian and Editor & Publisher

Scott Hilton / blog.walmart.com:

Walmart to start selling ebooks, audiobooks, and ereaders powered by Rakuten's digital book arm, Kobo, as part of Walmart-Rakuten alliance — Today, we announced a strategic alliance with Rakuten, the number one e-commerce company in Japan. — Initially, the relationship focuses on two areas.

Discussion: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Business Wire, TechCrunch, @philwahba, Publishing Perspectives, VentureBeat, Engadget, USA Today, Business Insider France, Fortune, NPR, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Reuters:

Sources: Chinese live-video streaming startup Kuaishou is close to raising $1B led by Tencent at an ~$18B valuation and plans to IPO in the second half of 2018 — Julie Zhu, Kane Wu — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese live-video streaming start-up Kuaishou, backed by Tencent …

Reuters:

Sources: Viacom CEO Bob Bakish and CBS CEO Leslie Moonves held “exploratory” discussion on merging companies; boards expected to discuss merger in coming weeks — (Reuters) - Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) Chief Executive Bob Bakish and CBS Corp (CBS.N) CEO Leslie Moonves …

Discussion: SlashGear, Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable and Engadget

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Analysis of behind-the-scenes maneuvers to merge Viacom and CBS and the futures of CEOs Bob Bakish and Leslie Moonves, as Shari Redstone pushes for scale

Discussion: FierceCable

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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Reports: Kimi Yoshino, business editor at the LA Times and an editor on the Pulitzer-winning Bell corruption scandal stories, was suspended for two days

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