FIRST CUTS: NYT retention challenge; press beats up on Patch

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu:

• Jill Abramson: "Retention is becoming a challenge" at the New York Times. (Daily Intel)

• Jack Shafer: "If we accept Business Insider's diagnosis of Patch as a business failure, will anybody step forward to make the case that the sites are a journalistic success? I've yet to read that piece." (Slate)

• Tim Armstrong: "I understand the fact that Patch is not popular with the media." (Erik Wemple)

• Will Village Voice staffers go on strike? (The Real Voice)

• MSNBC is faring well without Keith Olbermann. (Media Decoder)