Good morning. Almost there. Here are 10 media stories.
- NYT may have layoffs, after all
A memo from Janet Elder says the news org may not have enough buyout applications to forgo layoffs. “Early efforts to handicap the outcome regrettably point to having to do some layoffs.” Also, if you take the buyout, MOMA will not let you in for free anymore. (Mother Jones) | Last month Keith J. Kelly reported that more than 300 people had filed buyout applications, but many were “just securing their rights and checking it out,” Guild unit rep Grant Glickson said. (NY Post) | Floyd Norris is taking the buyout. (Talking Biz News) | More N.Y. Guild news: Eight Guild members who worked at Reuters’ Insider video project are losing their jobs. (The Newspaper Guild of New York) | Time Inc. has declared it’s at an “impasse” with the union and “can begin unilaterally imposing many of the terms, including the right to farm out up to 60 full-time jobs while slashing vacation and medical benefits and eliminating voluntary buyout provisions from future layoffs.” The Guild has asked the NLRB to investigate. (NY Post)
- Aereo files for bankruptcy
The “challenges have proven too difficult to overcome,” the company says. (Aereo) | “Aereo’s CEO told early VCs: This either will be the best investment of your career, or it will be a total loss. There is no in between.” (@danprimack)
- Networks on Obama’s immigration reform speech:
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ABC, NBC and CBS gave it a “collective shrug,” Erik Wemple reports. “Asked whether the White House formally requested coverage, the White House wouldn’t even provide the Erik Wemple Blog an on-the-record response.” (WP) | New York Post front: “Bamnesty” | “Sí se pudo”: How La Opinión and El Diario La Prensa covered the speech. (WP)
- Gatehouse parent co. buys Halifax newspapers
New Media Investment Group will pay $280 million for Halifax’s 36 newspapers, which include 24 dailies. (NMIG) | NMIG will be the Worcester (Massachusetts) Telegram & Gazette’s third owner in 16 months. (T&G)
- Phone hacking scandal principals move on
Rebekah Brooks may be named editor of the New York Post, Leela de Kretser writes in a kicky inaugural column for Capital. She and her family are “ensconced in an Upper East Side pad.” (Capital) | Former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson got out of jail early. (The Guardian)
- Your daily BuzzFeed links
Should BuzzFeed EIC Ben Smith have disclosed that some of his publication’s backers have invested in Uber competitors? It’s “easy to see this sort of thing creating an endless rabbit hole,” Peter Kafka writes. (Re/code) | BuzzFeed has discovered that “social URLs” — think back to the punny headlines you may have written before Google ruined all your fun — can “act like a rocket booster for a post,” Lucia Moses reports. Note the URL on the story. (Digiday)
- #Pointergate: The timeline
Corey Hutchins writes a fabulous tick-tock of KSTP’s ludicrous non-story and its risible attempts to defend it. Owner Stanley Hubbard confirms the station’s initial tip came from “the police federation guy” and says the station polled viewers after it became a national laughingstock for running it: “We just did a major study—we wanted to find out the public reaction—I haven’t got the number exactly, but it’s something like 65 or 70 percent of the people don’t care one way or the other. But interestingly, of those who are aware of the story, 52 percent of black people say, ‘Good for you, right on.’” (CJR) | The Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists calls the story “fundamentally flawed.” (MNSPJ) | A big takeaway from all this from David Brauer: “Primarily, we should be vigilant about civilian control of police.” (Southwest Journal) | Hubbard called a sponsor’s decision to pull advertising from KSTP “unbelievable.” Finally, something KSTP finds hard to believe. (MPR News)
- HuffPost may host Jill Abramson-Steven Brill startup
A “decision on a deal is likely to be made soon,” David Carr and Ravi Somaiya report. (NYT)
- Front page of the day, curated by Kristen Hare
The Washington Post goes big on Obama’s immigration action. (Courtesy the Newseum)
- Job moves, edited by Benjamin Mullin
Dan Lyons is now editor-in-chief at Valleywag. Previously, he was a marketing fellow at HubSpot. (Re/code) | Rachel Racusen will be vice president of communications at MSNBC. Previously, she was associate communications director for the White House. (Playbook) | Jeff Fager will be an executive producer at “60 Minutes”. Previously, he was chairman of CBS News. (Politico) | Nitasha Tiku is now a west coast senior writer at The Verge. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Valleywag. (Business Insider) | Jason Kravarik is now a producer at CNN. Previously, he was assistant news director at KOIN in Portland, Oregon. (TV Spy) | Job of the day: The Rockford (Illinois) Register Star is looking for an editor. Get your résumés in! (Journalism Jobs) | Send Ben your job moves: bmullin@poynter.org.
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