Mediagazer: RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ (Kyle Leighton/Talking Points Memo)

8:05 AM ET, August 29, 2012

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Wall Street Journal wants its reporters filing microvideo updates for its new WorldStream — The Wall Street Journal has been busy expanding its video offerings and experimenting with dedicated news streams in recent months. Today, the natural merger of the two debuts: a stream of reporter-generated videos called WorldStream.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Online Journalism Review, Digiday and Apple

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists — Since news organizations are paying all that money for journalists to carry around iPhones, why not put them to better use? — The Wall Street Journal is launching a new streaming-video product that does just that.

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Press Association:

Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails — A journalist was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of computer hacking. The 28-year-old man, understood to be the former Times journalist Patrick Foster, was held at his north London home on Wednesday morning.

Severin Carrell / Guardian:

Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor — Bob Bird, the former Scotland editor of the News of the World, has been arrested and charged by police investigating allegations of perjury and phone hacking linked to Tommy Sheridan's conviction for lying in court.

Lindsay Kalter / American Journalism Review:

The Ann Arbor Precedent — Three years before it announced it was taking a digital-first approach and cutting back on print publishing at papers in New Orleans and three other states, Newhouse's Advance Publications adopted a similar MO in Ann Arbor, Michigan. How has it worked out?

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Patriot-News, Post-Standard will reduce print frequency to three days a week

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The Patriot-News:
Patriot-News and PennLive.com will merge to form PA Media Group

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Kyle Leighton / Talking Points Memo:

RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ — Updated at 10:38 p.m. ET An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” …

Discussion: Clutch Magazine, Erik Wemple, Politico, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Gawker

Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot: Reporter's Tumblr gets him barred from RNC party

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
How reporters can beat the convention-hall wisdom

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Amy Wicks / WWD:

Sally Singer Out at T — Sally Singer is out as editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Singer joined the Times back in July 2010 after a long run at Vogue as fashion news and features director. At the time, she succeeded Stefano Tonchi who left T to become editor in chief of W …

Discussion: Media Decoder and MinOnline

Erik Maza / WWD: Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why newspapers need to get to know their readers better — We've pointed out before how Facebook and Twitter face the same kind of problem that the mainstream media industry is struggling with — namely, finding enough advertising revenue to make up for the fact that they are essentially giving away …

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MediaShift Idea Lab:

Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalists in Afghanistan — New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it.

Dylan Byers / Politico:

NYT reporter leaked advance copy of Maureen Dowd column to CIA — Newly available CIA records obtained by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, reveal that New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti forwarded an advance copy of one of his articles to a CIA spokesperson …

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Muck Rack:

Journalist Of The Day: NYT's Daniel Victor Talks About Social Media — Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) recently became the Social Media Producer at New York Times, and to celebrate this tremendous occasion, he decided to talk to Much Rack about the role of social media in his career as a journalist.

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

In Digital World, Advertising Age Redesigns Print Publication — A WEEKLY trade publication covering Madison Avenue since the Hoover administration will soon introduce its most significant redesign in years, as part of efforts to further redirect its editorial focus in a digital world toward analysis from breaking news.

Rex Sorgatz / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What The New York Times should do next: membership — Over three years ago, I wrote a blog post about what I thought The New York Times should do to survive the collapse of advertising. “Micropayment, Reimagined” proposed a series of “passes” that a consumer could purchase to access the Times' online content at incremental levels.

Discussion: The Awl