Bloomberg View, the financial news behemoth’s opinion site, continued its steroid-like growth on Friday with the announcement of new names on its U.S. and Asia editorial boards, new columnists and a full-time writer for its blog, The Ticker.

Current columnist Clive Crook, whose resumé includes years at the Financial Times, The Atlantic and The Economist, will join the editorial board alongside the Singapore-based Nisid Hajari, Newsweek‘s former managing and foreign editor. Matthew C. Klein, who previously wrote for The Economist, will blog for Bloomberg’s burgeoning site.

To boot, View has hired as a columnist Lanhee J. Chen, the former chief policy director of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. And Megan Greene, the former director of European economic research at Roubini Global Economics, will contribute columns from Europe.

“Adding talent of this caliber brings us closer to our goal of being a central hub for the highest-quality opinion and analysis on the web,” David Shipley, the site’s executive editor, said in a statement. “Our new writers deepen our editorial bench, and the strategic additions to our Editorial Board add strength in key areas: Europe, Asia, and global economics and finance.”

These just the latest marquee hires as Bloomberg beefs up its various editorial properties.

Earlier this month, View scooped up Jonathan Landman, the New York Times culture editor who took a buyout earlier this year, as its editor-at-large and expanded columnist Jeffery Goldberg‘s role. And a day before that announcement, View named Tim O’Brien, the two-year executive editor of The Huffington Post, as its publisher.

While Bloomberg has established itself as a key player in journalism, the newswire has struggled to attract big-name personalities that would make it a destination news source. Its recent hires seem to buck this trend

Rupert Murdoch is going to become an even richer man than he already he is when News Corp. finally splits. According to Bloomberg, Murdoch will be paid $28 million in total compensation when 21st Century Fox and New News Corp. begin their reign.

To make matters even sweeter for Murdoch, the payment is better than last year’s, when he raked in $24 million. The man is doing well. So what’s on Murdoch’s mind lately? Oh, the usual. Bashing The New York Times:

NYT op-Ed today argues. US inhospitality to teenage migrants led to Boston terror attack.Give us a break!And they charge $2.00!

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 24, 2013

The New York Times editor Jill Abramson met with James Bennet, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, but he denied that she was trying to woo him back to the paper where he spent 15 years.

The Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone heard from unnamed sources that Abramson wanted to gauge Bennet’s interest in returning to the Times, possibly to replace Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren.

Bennet did not immediately respond to an email from FishbowlNY requesting comment.

But he did respond to Calderone, saying he’d rather be left “out of one of these toxic Times gossip stories.”

“You and your sources have me: I met with Jill! Who is an old friend, and a brilliant editor,” Bennet said in an email. “I hope someday to meet with her again. And I have met at times with other people at the NYT, as I meet with people in media all the time who are serious, like us, about doing and sustaining great journalism. It’s useful to compare notes. But they didn’t, and they haven’t, offered me any job. And now I’m going to get back to doing the job that I love.”

Image: [Business Insider]

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.‘s spiritual metamorphosis (or clever career rebranding, We Report, You Decide) from canine to cat has been well-documented, as the rap-loving world watched with glee as Snoop Dogg became Snoop Lion in the time it takes to roll a blunt.

But his transformation from musician to Wall Street Journal guest editor is, at least for media gazers like us, all the more amusing.

Write the Speakeasy blog editors:

Today, Snoop is also serving as Speakeasy’s first-ever special guest editor. In that role, he wrote the following essay about his reggae transformation, assigned a story on how sports can help at-risk youth, and will answer reader questions that are sent on Twitter with the hashtag #AskSnoop.

“Everybody searches for this in their own way,” Snoop whatever-animal-you-deem-more-official writes. “Some people never find it. Some people find it through religion or meditation or a relationship or travel. I found it in Jamaica. I finally made it to paradise. Rastafari called me.  And I’m glad I answered. JAH RASTAFARI!”

Jah Rasafari, indeed.

Image: [WSJ]

News Corporation reached a $139 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against its board, alleging that the media giant’s top brass put chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s interests before those of the company.

A group of shareholders, suing on behalf of the company, settled a class suit filed in Delaware two years ago claimed the board failed to prevent the phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. and negotiate a fair price for the acquisition of Shine Group, a TV production firm owned by the boss’s daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch.

The board put in place new rules, appeasing the plaintiffs, last year.

News Corp. will recover $139 million in insurance proceeds.

“We are pleased to have resolved this matter,” News Corp. said in a statement on Monday. “The agreement reflects the important steps News Corporation has taken over the last year to strengthen our corporate governance and compliance structure and we have committed to building on those efforts going forward.”

The News of the World tabloid, the main antagonist in the phone-hacking debacle, was shuttered in July 2011, months after Murdoch bought Shine in an all-stock deal worth about $675 million.

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The New York Times and the BBC College of Journalism invited a cadre of big-name editors from a cadre of big-name publications to talk about social media and how to use it.

For some reason, they left out BuzzFeed, the news site entirely built on the idea of socializing online and sharing stories, but never mind that because they did include Olivia Ma, the head of news and media partnerships from the most beloved social network, Google+.

Here are some photos from the summit:

Rupert Murdoch dragged a wrinkled finger across his iPad yesterday, scanning Twitter to see who was mentioning him. And that’s when he saw it, the tweet and paired blog post that made his eyes widen and his cheeks flush. He mouthed a breathy “no,” as he read it.

The guys from FishbowlNY had skewered him, and his beloved New York Post tabloid, again.

The leather desk chair creaked as he sat back, sighing exasperatedly. He placed the iPad on his mahogany desk. Unsure if he was angry, or just embarrassed, he thought about it. Maybe I’ll buy Mediabistro and just put those hacks out of the job, he thought. Or maybe I’ll sue them for libel, he thought, but quickly brushed off the idea, because he knows he doesn’t need any more legal woes. The phone hacking thing was enough. No need to drag some brazen bastards before a judge and jury.

He scratched his forehead, the creased 82-year-old skin molding like Silly Putty ™ in his finger tips.

Only one thing to do, he thought. I’ve got to launch a stellar defense of my newspaper, my New York Post, my baby.

“Wendi,” he called across the room to his wife, Wendi Deng, who was catching her breath after verbally demolishing the new maid for breathing too loud or something like that. “Can you look over my shoulder on this one? I want to make sure I get it just right — so all the world’s media gazers recant their criticisms of the Post.”

“Sure,” she said, and cracked her knuckles.

Old Rupe started tapping away at the screen.

“Yeah, yeah, that’s perfect, darling,” Wendi said. “This will probably boost the Post‘s subscription sales! You’re so smart.”

Rupert smiled. He clicked send. And the rest of us got this:

All NYPost pics were those distributed by FBI.And instantly withdrawn when FBI changed directions.

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 20, 2013

So, on behalf of my co-editor Chris O’Shea and the rest of FishbowlNY, you’re welcome.

Editor’s note: This is more satire. Duh.

Image: [BBC/Daily Mail]

Rupert Murdoch owns the New York Post, a tabloid newspaper on the island of Manhattan that is widely considered to be the golden standard of journalistic ethics, writing and sophistication.

In the days following a bombing in Boston that left three dead and droves maimed, the stoic little paper, with its boringly staid headlines and cover art, churned out scoops that were so true the rest of the media just didn’t even get it. Like, those fools at the New York Times and the chumps that run FishbowlNY were saying three people were dead when, like, it was obviously 12. And then they put a guy on the cover of the paper who was so suspiciously guilty, he didn’t even know it!

See, the Post reports on things. Lots of them.

The octogenarian media mogul must have been so proud. Prouder than he was when his smiling mug appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, which called him an “old fox,” which is a name he likes. After all, he named his television network after that animal.

But for some reason, he stayed mum on Twitter. No praise for the Post‘s intrepid reporters. No in-your-face bragging to competitors like the New York Daily News.

Just this:

Why does British establishment protect famous alleged BBC paedophiles while demonising popular journalists.Toffs for toffs, hell to public

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 19, 2013

The Huffington Post was as confused as we were.

Editor’s Note: This is satire, as copied from my colleague, senior editor Chris O’Shea. Because it’s actually that absurd.

Image: [JudiciaryReport.com]

Shall we “let them eat sand?”

In 2001, six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bill O’Reilly called on his fellow bloodthirsty patriots to wage a war against civilian targets if the Afghan government did not immediately extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S.

According to the media watchdog FAIR:

“This is a very primitive country. And taking out their ability to exist day to day will not be hard. Remember, the people of any country are ultimately responsible for the government they have. The Germans were responsible for Hitler. The Afghans are responsible for the Taliban. We should not target civilians. But if they don’t rise up against this criminal government, they starve, period.”

Of Iraq, another country on which the Fox News host (perhaps clairvoyantly?) fixed his crosshairs, he said “their infrastructure must be destroyed and the population made to endure yet another round of intense pain…. Maybe then the people there will finally overthrow Saddam.”

It also seems that O’Reilly in all his wisdom, was an early supporter of the Arab Spring. Sort of.

If Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi didn’t step down and go into exile the U.S. should “bomb his oil facilities, all of them. And we mine the harbor in Tripoli. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out. We also destroy all the airports in Libya. Let them eat sand.”

We wonder what he’ll have to say about Chechnya, the once-wartorn republic in the Russian Federation, in the coming days.

Image: [Raw Story]

h/t Peter Hart

Exclusive: As authorities closed in on Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old Chechen identified as the second alleged suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, The Boston Globe urged its employees to stay safe.

The Globe sports a stable of journalistic thoroughbreds, many of whom have hunted for finite scoops and detail in dangerous places. Take former Moscow bureau chief David Filipov, riding on horseback through Taliban territory during the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan. Or reporter David Abel, who was at the center of Monday’s blast zone and remained on scene to gather the news.

“As a news organization, there are unique demands on our employees, but please comply with these directives if possible,” publisher Christopher M. Mayer wrote in a Friday morning memo, obtained by FishbowlNY. “Your safety is our first priority.”

Tsarnaev and the man identified as his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, are believed to be the suspects seen planting pressure cooker explosives in videos and photographs from before the dual explosions that killed three and injured more than 150 at Monday’s race. The elder Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police after allegedly robbed a 7-11 and killed a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

By Friday morning, police had surrounded a house in the Boston suburb of Watertown, where the remaining suspect is thought to be holed up.

A third arrest, of someone identified by NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston as an accomplice and not a suspect, was also made Friday morning.

Boston’s taxi services and MBTA system were shut down on Friday during the manhunt.

Read the full staff memo after the jump:

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