Mediagazer: The Rise and Fall of the L.A. Examiner, a Blog That Was a Newspaper That Never Existed (Ken Layne/The Awl)

12:50 AM ET, April 3, 2013

Top News:

‘Illegal immigrant’ no more — The AP Stylebook today is making some changes in how we describe people living in a country illegally. Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explains the thinking behind the decision: The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

AP's Dropping Of ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Could Have Wide Ramifications For Media — The decision by the Associated Press to drop the term “illegal immigrant” could have far-reaching ramifications for the media industry. — The AP said on Tuesday that it has decided to abandon the contentious term …

Discussion: msnbc.com

Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:

Syrian Newspapers Emerge to Fill Out War Reporting — ANTAKYA, Turkey — Absi Smesem became the editor in chief of a new weekly Syrian newspaper hoping to leave behind what he disparaged as the “Facebook phase” of the uprising. — The tall tales and outright misinformation that tainted …

Alex Thomson / Channel 4: Q&A: How foreign journalists operate in Syria

Ken Layne / The Awl:

The Rise and Fall of the L.A. Examiner, a Blog That Was a Newspaper That Never Existed — My office was the living room closet in a huge one-bedroom in a 1920s East Hollywood apartment court, across the street from the big blue Scientology headquarters in the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.

Discussion: New York Times and LA Observed

Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review:

The Koch brothers' media investment — They are rumored to want the Tribune chain. A look at Watchdog.org gives some clues about what that might mean. — Tribune Company's moves to sell its newspapers—a string that includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Snitch and FishbowlLA

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Changes afoot in ‘New York Times’ European bureaus — The New York Times building. wallyg via flickr — The New York Times' foreign desk today announced a handful of staffing changes in its European bureaus involving some of the paper's most recognizable bylines.

Discussion: The New York Observer and The Huffington Post

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

How Much Do BuzzFeed, Gawker and Business Insider Staff Tweet About Work? — Is Twitter your job? We have maintained in the past that it is not. A year later, we think that more and more media employees are engaged in the practice of using their Twitter accounts to promote not just their work, but their workplaces.

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

The New Yorker launches new tech and science vertical for its website — The New Yorker is today launching a new science and technology vertical and accompanying blog for its website, NewYorker.com. — The section will feature a mix of new posts and stories from the New Yorker's archives …

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Swartz death inspires expanded effort to liberate paywalled court docs — Aaron Swartz is remembered most for his campaign to liberate articles from the academic database JSTOR. That effort led to his indictment on federal hacking charges, which his family blamed for his January suicide.

Discussion: Techdirt and Boing Boing

Inga Saffron / The New Republic:

After the Newspaper Building — What must surely rank among the most touching demonstrations of the emotional bond between a newspaper and its readers occurred in Washington during the summer of 1973. The Nixon tapes had just been released, and dozens of people flocked to the Washington Post building …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

The Orange County Register's new owners want to reinvent newspapers from the ground up — The new owners of the Orange County Register don't have a background in newspapers or journalism: between them, Aaron Kushner and his partner Eric Spitz have built a number of online businesses …

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Robert Darnton / New York Review of Books:

The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! — The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America's research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

New CEO's plan for About.com: same business model, more flash — About.com announced on Tuesday that Neil Vogel, founder of the best-of-the-internet “Webby Awards,” will be the company's new CEO. His immediate tasks will be to increase the site's brand recognition and to persuade people …

Ahmed Rasheed / Reuters:

Armed men attack Baghdad newspaper offices over story on cleric — (Reuters) - Men armed with pistols, knives and steel pipes stormed into three Baghdad newspaper offices, beating employees and smashing computers after publication of an article about a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, police and editors said on Tuesday.

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

News Corp. Explores Sale of U.S. Community Papers — News Corp . is exploring the sale of its Dow Jones Local Media group, the collection of community newspapers mainly on the East Coast that was formerly known as the Ottaway community newspapers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Warner Bros. launches its own streaming video subscription sevice — The movie studios certainly get an A for thinking outside the box, or at least Warner Brothers does. the studio's online archive site, Warner Archive, has just launched a new streaming service that gives people access …

Discussion: Electronista, Engadget, Bloomberg, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent, Seeking Alpha, Geeky-Gadgets, The Slanted, CriterionCast, Variety, Home Media Magazine, WebProNews and The Verge

Adrienne LaFrance / Digital First Media:

Journal Register Company sale delay comes after late-minute union vote, Newspaper Guild says — A delay in the sale of Journal Register Company newspapers to 21st CMH Acquisition Co. is the result of an eleventh-hour union vote that will enable the deal to move forward, said Michigan Newspaper Guild president Lou Mleczko.

Discussion: Poynter, Connecticut News, news_Local from http … and The Newspaper Guild