Mediagazer: Three Years After Evan Smith's Exit, a Redesign for Resilient Texas Monthly (Nat Ives/AdAge)

Homicide Watch Venture Struggles to Survive — Journalism has a shortage of many things: capital, advertisers and, in some instances, readers. But certainly its most precious commodity is innovation. — Again and again, the business struggles to get out of the rut that put it on a road to ruin in the first place.

Discussion: @antderosa

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Roll Call and CQ Today to Merge Into One Paper — As many Washington-area news outlets continue their hiring sprees to feed the appetite for political news, two political newspaper stalwarts, Roll Call and CQ Today, are following what recently has been a far more common path in journalism.

Discussion: Politico

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:

NY Times' Jim Roberts: ‘The Pace Of Change Gets Faster And Faster’ — What's the most dramatic change you've seen in your 25 years at the Times? — I definitely think the transition to digital — it's enormous, it's ongoing. Change is hard. Dealing with disruptive technologies left …

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

My Turn in Between the Readers and the Writers — WHEN Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, phoned to congratulate me on my appointment as public editor, he closed the call with a quip: “I look forward to you trashing me.” — And there, in brief, is the paradox, and one of the challenges, of this role.

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal and Pressing Issues

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Newspaper restructuring — think steel, cars and airlines — If there is a poster child for the “digital first” newspaper movement, it is probably Journal Register Co., which manages a chain of dailies and weeklies in the eastern U.S. John Paton took the helm as CEO after it emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 …

Discussion: Strange Attractor

Discussion: Guardian

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

'How did L.A. Times get a grant when I can't?' — Second of two parts. This first part is here. — For 24 years, hundreds of Los Angeles high school journalists have learned about reporting, writing and life itself by volunteering at L.A. Youth, a free newspaper read by an estimated 350,000 teens a year.

Max de La Bruyere / Yale Daily News:

For Our Readers: Membis investigation complete — After the Wall Street Journal fired Liane Membis '12 in July for fabricating sources, the News opened an investigation into her work as a staff reporter for the paper between 2009 and 2010. After fact-checking her articles and contacting …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and @romenesko

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Three Years After Evan Smith's Exit, a Redesign for Resilient Texas Monthly — Marshaling the Advantages of Being in Texas — When Evan Smith stepped down as editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly in July 2009 to help start the all-digital Texas Tribune, it was easy to wonder how the magazine would fare after his exit.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Pro-Syrian government hackers send fake news through Al Jazeera's SMS service — Combatants on both sides of Syria's domestic conflict have resorted to cyberwarfare to reach their goals, and a new hack has targeted Al Jazeera's SMS news service, giving subscribers fake breaking news updates via text message.

Discussion: The Hacker News [ THN ] and CNET

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company …

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Side-Line, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, CNET, The Verge and Gizmodo

Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

Chicago Tribune News Apps Team Launches ‘Crime in Chicago’ Data Project — It's responsive, it's overflowing with data and it's beautiful. The most recent project from The Chicago Tribune news apps team, Crime in Chicago, is a glowing example of the power of data in telling stories …

Bill Grueskin / Nieman Journalism Lab:

News orgs want journalists who are great at a few things, rather than good at many — Editor's Note: It's the start of the school year, which means students are returning to journalism programs around the country. As the media industry continues to evolve, how well is new talent being trained …