Mediagazer: Journalists Confronted By Police While Covering DNC (Jack Mirkinson/Huffington Post)

7:05 AM ET, September 6, 2012

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Another Tough Step — Folks, Today Digital First Media announced Journal Register Company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will seek to implement a prompt sale. We expect the auction and sale process to take about 90 days, and I am pleased to tell you the Company has a signed stalking horse bid …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Journal Register Co. declares bankruptcy...again: Is this the industry's first real reboot? — It was just three years ago that the Journal Register Co. filed for bankruptcy, its collection of small local newspapers hit hard by the economic crisis and the secular decline of the newspaper industry.

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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Financial maneuvers won't slow Digital First progress — I don't pretend to understand corporate finance. So I won't have a lot to say about today's announcement that Journal Register Company filed for Chapter 11 and is for sale. — Here's what I know: JRC is making great strides …

Jim Romenesko: Journal Register files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Ryan Singel / Wired:

YouTube Flags Democrats' Convention Video on Copyright Grounds — While First Lady Michelle Obama's speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, those who got inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube found the video flagged by copyright claims shortly after it finished.

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James Poniewozik / Time:
What We're Learning from the Convention Ratings (Or Lack Thereof)

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Bloomberg:

News Corp. Selects Board Member With Ties To Colombia Wiretaps — News Corp. (NWS), still seeking to move past a hacking scandal at its U.K. newspapers, has nominated to its board a former Colombian president whose administration was itself embroiled in an illegal wiretapping controversy.

Mark Sweney / Guardian: News Corporation paid Elisabeth Murdoch almost $4m for running Shine

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
News Corp bonuses cut following phone-hacking scandal

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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:

The Economics of Magazines and Diversity — Last week, I went on a bit of bender asking (begging, pleading, rather) for people to subscribe to the magazine — either in print or via iPad. In making my argument, I pointed to the support The Atlantic has traditionally given its writers …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Two from Murdoch's stable defect to the ‘Daily News’ — News Corp. just lost a little talent to one of its New York newspaper rivals. Two New York Post alumni are headed to the Daily News. One is Jon Blackwell, who is leaving his post as copy chief at News Corp's tablet title, The Daily …

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

News websites avoid August doldrums to reach record Web traffic — August is traditionally thought to be a slow news month, and overall Web traffic has sagged more than 14 percent in Augusts past. — But something about this past month (Olympics? The RNC?

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Israeli judge to reporter - state security matters more than press freedom — An Israeli court has ruled that state security is more important than freedom of the press and the public's right to know. — A judge decided that national security trumped the rights of journalists because …

Emily Brennan / Guernica:

Reporting Poverty — hile covering poverty and social welfare for the Washington Post in 1993, Katherine Boo was commissioned to write a magazine profile of the new vice president, Al Gore. For most reporters, such an assignment would signal entry into the big leagues.

Erik Wemple:

Fact-checking: What exactly are we debating again? — First in an endless, tireless, exhaustive series of blog posts on the fact-checking industry. — Margaret Sullivan, the new public editor of the New York Times, showed a nose for news when she penned her introductory blog post.

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Jodi Enda / American Journalism Review:

Staying Alive — On the face of it, the idea is outlandish: Take an aging but well-known musical that's on stage at a local theater, examine the societal issues it raises and use it as the starting point for a reporting project that people will pay you to produce.

Discussion: CJR

Jim Romenesko:

Oregonian memo describes a beat reporter's digital day — An unsigned, memo (how ironic!) titled “Portrait of a Digital Day — Beat Reporter” is being given to Oregonian staffers as they meet with managers to discuss boosting the Newhouse newspaper's digital efforts.

Discussion: PandoDaily and @timwindsor

Jack Mirkinson / Huffington Post:

Journalists Confronted By Police While Covering DNC — Two journalists had a nasty run-in with Charlotte police during the run-up to the Democratic National Convention on Sunday. — In a post on Tuesday night, Kevin Gosztola, a journalist for the Firedoglake blog, wrote about the police intimidation …

Discussion: Firedoglake

Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Undercover Agent or Cop Threatens to Assault Journalist, Grabs Other Journalist with Credentials at DNC

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Public cost of Leveson inquiry at £3.9m — Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into press standards cost £3.9m of public money in the 11 months to 30 June. The four lawyers acting as counsel to the inquiry have taken home just over £1m. The highest-paid of these will have been lead counsel Robert Jay QC.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Leveson inquiry report into press regulation now expected in November

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression? — In late March 2011, as the Arab Spring was spreading, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to produce a one-hour documentary on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region.

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

A media lovefest in Charlotte — The Democratic National Convention is just getting underway, but already I've been given the treatment. Lots of treatments, actually. I've had my deltoids massaged in candlelight by a licensed therapist; had a foaming pore cleanser and mask applied …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite and New York Times