Mediagazer: Don't Panic! The ‘Times’ Is Losing Staff, But It Will Be Fine (Marc Tracy/The New Republic)

12:55 PM ET, November 13, 2013

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Bronwen Clune / Guardian:

So Twitter is ruining journalism? Really? — The Australian newspaper published an editorial referring to journalists using Twitter as a ‘path to ruin’. It couldn't be more wrong — There is no quicker way for old institutions to look irrelevant than to insist on their relevance.

Discussion: @jimbarrett

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries — Google has become so big that sometimes it's difficult to understand just how big it is. It's on course to do $60 billion in revenue this year, almost all of that from advertising. But how big is that in terms of the media it competes against for ad dollars?

Discussion: Forbes, Big News Network.com and BGR

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Times’ ad exec announces ‘full native advertising platform,’ coming soon — The New York Times will launch a “full native advertising platform” in the next two to three months. — Meredith Kopit Levien, the Times' exec vice president of advertising, made the announcement during …

Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

Don't Panic! The ‘Times’ Is Losing Staff, But It Will Be Fine — In August, reporting an article about The New York Times' future, I spoke to Sam Sifton, the former national editor now in charge of various nascent digital initiatives that the paper hopes will allow it to secure more paying customers.

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal, Capital New York, The Daily Beast, Yahoo News, @emilybell, @markleibovich, The New York Observer, bookforum.com and Poynter

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Departures Heighten Concerns About Staff Retention

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Nancy Youssef / @nancyayoussef:

CBS spokesman tells McClatchy that CBS is conducting a “journalist review” into its Oct. 27 60 Minutes #Benghazi report. #LaraLogan

Discussion: The Huffington Post, NPR and @mlcalderone

Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:
“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out slick new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes and game consoles — Netflix rolled out a big revamp of its user interface for smart TVs and connected devices Tuesday night, moving away from a grid of box shot covers towards a much more visual interface …

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Angela Watercutter / Wired:
Netflix's New Look Is a Glimpse at the Future of TV

Discussion: USA Today

Paul Carsten / Reuters:

Chinese Internet firms sue Baidu for online piracy — BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese Internet firms, including Tencent Holdings and Sohu.Com Inc, has joined a top U.S. film industry body in seeking 300 million yuan ($49.2 million) in damages from China's Baidu Inc and QVOD for copyright violation.

Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
Fox, Ivanhoe to Make Local-Language Movies in Asia

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

CBS Corp. CEO Talks Time Warner Cable Dispute, Netflix Competition — Leslie Moonves also says TV is a better business than film and discusses “pre-historic” thinking about retrans fees, why only ESPN should get paid more than CBS and how his wife binges on “Game of Thrones.”

Chris Hughes / The New Republic:

A Year and a Half Later... What's new at The New Republic — What's new at The New Republic — Today we are launching The New Republic's company blog, New Republic Home News. From time to time, we will use this space to give readers a sense of what's going on inside the company.

Discussion: Poynter, @niemanlab and @rmantri

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Former Rolling Stone Editor Eric Bates Joins Omidyar-Greenwald Venture — Eric Bates, the former executive editor of Rolling Stone, is joining the new media organization being launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and journalist Glenn Greenwald. — According to a post from Omidyar about NewCo …

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Wants to Be Offered With Pay-TV Bundles — Online Video Outlet Could Be Centralized Location for Full Seasons of Shows … Online video outlet Hulu LLC is in early discussions with several pay-TV providers about potential partnerships, said people familiar with the situation …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Rebekah Brooks Was Hacking Victim Herself, Court Told — LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of Britain's News of the World, on trial for phone-hacking, was herself repeatedly targeted for voicemail interception by the private investigator working for her tabloid, a London court heard on Wednesday.

Jeff Jarvis / Medium:

CMS as Media Salvation. Not. … Salmon thus accomplishes the almost impossible, writing an ode to the content management system as he argues that Vox Media, Business Insider, Gawker Media, Buzzfeed, Aol, Glam, and this very medium, Medium, are fighting for dominance with CMSes as their weapons of mass disruption.

Discussion: BtoB Magazine Online, Talking Points Memo and @chanders

Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why so serious? Maybe because data shows news stories can get shared just as often as lighter fare — Editor's note: Our friends at NPR Digital Services, Eric Athas and Teresa Gorman, crunched the numbers on how public radio stories were shared on Facebook and found some encouraging results.

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

Senators Introduce Bill to Curb Sports Blackouts — Never underestimate a lawmaker's desire to make sure football games get aired in his market. — Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), two lawmakers who have been outspoken on sports blackouts …

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Clearleap Raises $20 Million From Susquehanna To Make TV More Multiplatform — Clearleap builds software infrastructure that helps content owners, distributors, and aggregators to make TV and movies available online and on a wide array of devices. While it's spent the last several years …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

John Reynolds / Guardian:

Independent's redesign lifts circulation — Relaunch of newspaper on Thursday 7 November led to rise in sales of around 3,000 compared to previous week — The Independent is understood to have enjoyed a circulation lift of around 3,000 copies on the day of its redesign …

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Why Lockhart Steele Sold Curbed to Vox — Digital media startup Vox Media, parent to SB Nation, The Verge and Polygon, will acquire the Curbed suite of blogs — Curbed, Eater, Racked — in a deal that was reported to have been in the neighborhood of $20-$30 million.

Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

David Remnick laments the ‘cultural serfdom’ of young writers on the web — For what was essentially an audience of twentysomething journalists aspiring to write for the New Yorker, editor in chief David Remnick had no incontrovertible advice on the subject Monday evening.

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

The Sun to introduce ‘dedicated department’ for social media — The new department will power ‘24/7’ social media activity, and consist of half a dozen social managers and a new social editor — The Sun is to set up a “dedicated department” for social media, which will consist of a team …

David Meyer / Gigaom:

On-demand photography outfit Scoopshot pulls in $3.9M to expand internationally — A lot of money is going into trying to disrupt the stock photography market - something investors hope will be possible through advances in the quality of smartphone cameras.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mobile Entertainment and Scoopshot

Chris Tryhorn / Guardian:

BBC is in a ‘soft power’ battle with international broadcasters — Tony Hall wants a worldwide audience of 500 million by 2022, but CCTV, al-Jazeera and others have global ambitions too — BBC director general Tony Hall wants the corporation to double its international reach …