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Bloomberg scandal and media business

Bloomberg News journalists create some excellent work on topics that have nothing to do with financial markets, but their bread and butter is to be one more thing that makes the Bloomberg terminal something that financial professionals can’t afford not to have. The practice of letting journalists access information about when subscribers had logged in and what broad categories of data they accessed pits the two imperatives of Bloomberg’s strategy against each other.

On the one hand, it wants to do everything it can to ensure that its reporters are drumming up information that the competition isn’t. On the other, anything that discomfits the subscribers who are paying the bills could endanger the whole enterprise.

Source: Nieman Journalism Lab

Rhino Battery Holster Available!

Rhino Camera Gear has its Battery Holster available for pre-order. RCG created a hard shell holster that holds two Canon LP-E6 batteries or two Sony batteries (Alpha type). An integrated belt clip allows you to attach it on to your pants, backpacks, and camera straps. The holster costs 19.25 EUR a piece. Battery Holsters are compatible with Black Rapid straps.

Content editor = product manager

An editor or writer who gets to file her copy into the system and forget about is an editor who is being alienated from the fruits of their labour. Editors need to help craft the way their content gets presented to their readers. They do need to have a seat at the same table as designers and “marketers”, and explain the way their content will be most valuable and then work with those other colleagues to help design, build and release the code that can bring that value to the reader.

Source: Nieman Journalism Lab

Fitch Ratings selects Quark

Fitch Ratings has selected Quark’s Dynamic Research Reporting Solution to create the reports and commentary the agency delivers to investors, fixed income professionals and capital markets participants worldwide. Requiring a highly efficient, flexible, and Word-based authoring environment, Fitch Ratings chose Dynamic Research Reporting from Quark, which is part of Quark Enterprise Solutions, above other vendors’ solutions.

Source: Quark News

Change your terrible WordPress UID

One or more hackers are using a “botnet” to try and access WordPress-hosted sites by attacking the lowest common denominator: Sites that use “admin” as the login name, paired with a list of the most commonly used passwords.

Web security services company CloudFlare is ringing the alarm bells (while simultaneously pimping the company’s own security services ).

Source: All Things Digital News