Mediagazer: Digital First Media assembles curation team ahead of time to help cover Colorado shooting (Rachel McAthy/Journalism.co.uk)

11:10 AM ET, July 21, 2012

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future of news — Only a few days ago, we were writing about how users of Twitter and Reddit used those networks to tell a compelling story about a mass shooting in Toronto, and now the same phenomenon is playing out in real-time during another horrific incident …

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Jack Shafer:

What the Colorado shooting says about us — The Colorado movie massacre imposes on us once again the temptation to extrapolate lessons from a demented act of violence. Depending on the lens through which the massacre is viewed, it has encouraged some to restate their case for gun control …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate and Gothamist

Jakob Schiller / Wired:

When Tragedy Hits, Photojournalists Balance Reporting and Emotion — “He was screaming at the top his lungs, ‘Have you seen my son?’” says Barry Gutierrez, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has been covering today's shooting in Colorado for the Associated Press.

Discussion: The Raw Story

Media Decoder:

Hollywood Struggles for Proper Response to Shooting — Updated LOS ANGELES — Executives for Warner Brothers were still assessing the implications on Friday of the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colo., at a midnight showing of its big-budget film “The Dark Knight Rises.”

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Erik Wemple:
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John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
How 18-Year-Old Morgan Jones Told The World About Aurora

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Sports journalist Jessica Ghawi dies in Colorado theater shooting

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Abigail Pesta / The Daily Beast:

The War on ‘Teen Vogue’: Young Readers Escalate Campaign for More ‘Real Girls’ — Teenage girls are stepping up a fight for the magazine to show a wider range of body types, claiming the current images can spark eating disorders and other problems. Abigail Pesta reports. — Does Teen Vogue digitally zap zits?

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

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Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post:

Michael Caruso, Smithsonian's new editor, sees a livelier future for magazine — Michael Caruso announced his arrival at Smithsonian Magazine with a cover image of a 50-foot snake poised to bite off the heads of unsuspecting readers. — Subtlety is not Caruso's strong suit, nor his ambition.

Rethink Digg:

v1 — As betaworks and Digg both announced on their blogs, we are taking over Digg and turning it back into a startup. What they didn't mention is that we're rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks. — On August 1, after an adrenaline and caffeine-fueled six weeks, we're rolling out a new v1.

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Jessica Roy / Betabeat: Betaworks Team Announces Ambitious Goal: Rebuild Digg From the Ground Up. In Six Weeks.

Sarah Carr / CJR:

How to worry about a clicks-driven Times-Picayune — A departing reporter's worst-case fears — If clicks drove coverage at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans —a more realistic prospect than it's ever been—what kind of publication would we get? We can look at past traffic and get a rough answer …

Discussion: Cision and American Journalism Review

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

NPR hires lobbyists as GOP targets public broadcasting funds — National Public Radio has hired lobbying firm Navigators Global, according to disclosure forms filed Thursday. — NPR has come under fire from some Republican lawmakers who want to cut off all federal funding to the nonprofit media organization.

Discussion: Radio & Television …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Digital First Media assembles curation team ahead of time to help cover Colorado shooting — The US media group's new curation team will officially start a week on Monday, but a ‘makeshift’ team was put together today to help report on the shooting in Colorado

Discussion: The Buttry Diary and ABCNEWS

The Daily:

Sorkin cleaning the “Newsroom” — Aaron Sorkin has been doing press all week defending his critically-panned HBO show, “The Newsroom,” but behind the scenes he's cleaning house. Most of the writers on the cable drama about a Keith Olbermann-type television news demagogue have been fired …

Discussion: FishbowlLA, Gawker, ArtsBeat and Business Insider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Viacom's $5 Billion DirecTV Deal Keeps the Bundle Intact for Seven More Years — Remember when the DirecTV-Viacom standoff was going to be the first step of the beginning of the end of TV? Or at least the end of the bundle? — Turns out you're going to have to keep waiting for that.

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