FIRST CUTS: Congressional media investments; media’s new power couple

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Here's our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu:

• "U.K. tabloids: Threat or menace?" asks Jack Shafer. (Slate)

• Daily News editor Kevin Convey chats about "the lingering competition in New York City's tabloid detente." (New York Observer)

• How much are members of Congress investing in big media companies? (Adweek)

• Meet "media's latest power couple"--CNBC's Nicole Lapin and the New York Times' Brian Stelter, who will "refrain from covering CNBC in a significant way in the future." (Business Insider/The Wire)