Mediagazer: Captured Turkish journalist appears on Syrian TV (Reuters)

5:25 AM ET, August 28, 2012

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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Twitter appeals New York court ruling on behalf of Occupy Wall Steet protester Malcolm Harris — You might remember, back in July, when a New York judge ruled that Twitter had to turn over three months' worth of tweets that were written by user Malcolm Harris, known by his Twitter handle of @destructuremal.

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Erik Wemple:
Brisbane hammers NYT for ‘progressivism,’ Occupy bias

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Times-Picayune will face new print competitor on Saturdays — New Orleans Times-Picayune photojournalist John McCusker talks with CBS News' Mark Strassmann about what will happen to the paper after Sept. 30. That's when, as Strassmann says, “the paper's management will cut its staff in half.

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Reuters:

Captured Turkish journalist appears on Syrian TV — A Turkish cameraman who went missing while reporting from Syria appeared on Monday in an interview with a pro-government Syrian television channel and said he had been seized by Syrian soldiers in the northern city of Aleppo.

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Shooting victim's brother criticizes media for ‘horrific journalism’ — Paul Ercolino, whose brother Steven was killed outside the Empire State Building Friday, called in to New York's WFAN Monday to talk about his brother's love of sports. He also criticized the media for using graphic images of his brother.

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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties — If you have read anything about digital music recently, you have probably encountered two names over and over: Spotify and Pandora. Both offer an abundance of free listening on easy-to-use interfaces, and music fans have embraced them.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Study: Most campaign coverage written by men — Seventy-six percent of articles about the GOP primary and 72 percent of articles about the presidential campaign were written by men, according to a press release from the Women's Media Center. The Fourth Estate compiled the data …

Discussion: Women's Media Center, International Business Times, The Huffington Post and Forbes

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’ — There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a “give-it-away-free approach” that has hurt share prices. — There's the fact that the WaPo once had an option to buy 10 percent of this extremely valuable firm …

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney team of ‘Mad Men’ creates ads to sell nation on candidate — BOSTON — Now that Mitt Romney has amassed a couple hundred million dollars, it's largely up to an eclectic crew of self-described “Mad Men” to make good use of it. — A colorful team of advertising gurus …

Jim Romenesko:

Jonathan Krim is named MarketWatch acting editor — Jonathan Krim, who is currently WSJ.com senior deputy managing editor, becomes MarketWatch.com acting editor. From the memo: … David Callaway left the MarketWatch editor-in-chief post last month to become USA Today's top editor.

Hazel Sheffield / CJR:

Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news — “I'm looking for individuals I can pay a lower rate to do a lot of work,” says Journtent founder James Macpherson — A publisher in Pasadena, CA, who said he received death threats when he started hiring workers in India …

Luke Allnutt / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

With WikiLeaks On Ice, What Has Happened To All Those Digital Whistleblowers? — It is hard sometimes to divide the story of Julian Assange from that of WikiLeaks. But once upon a time, before Bradley Manning, the rape allegations, the house arrest, the TV show on RT, and then the Ecuador gambit …

Discussion: Charlie Beckett

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Monday Q&A: Josh Miller on Branch, comments as content, and the state of online discourse — Like a lot of tech startups, it's easier to describe what Branch isn't than what it is. The newly launched discussion platform — bankrolled in part by Twitter's co-founders — is not Twitter …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

With Isaac Bearing Down, Networks Weigh Their Options — Put yourself in the shoes of a network news president for a moment. There's a tropical storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast, reviving memories of Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. But there's also a political convention beginning in Tampa …

Discussion: Politico, TVNewser, Gawker and Globe and Mail

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Star Correspondents Bolt Tampa For NOLA, As Isaac Approaches

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Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out — In May of last year, PBS reported online that “prominent rapper Tupac has been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand.” The U.K.-based The Sun devoted its front page in July to a report …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

IAC Buys About.com From NY Times Co. For $300 Million — “Invest in the Times” is the watchword at The New York Times Co. these days. Now the publisher has another $300 million to invest in its core brand, thanks to internet mogul Barry Diller. Diller's IAC has completed a deal to buy …