Mediagazer: Kathy Thomson named chief operating officer of Tribune publishing (Stuart Pfeifer/Los Angeles Times)

3:30 AM ET, April 3, 2013

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‘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

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

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: RECAP The Law, Techdirt and Boing Boing

Stuart Pfeifer / Los Angeles Times:

Kathy Thomson named chief operating officer of Tribune publishing — Tribune Co. has promoted Kathy Thomson, president and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Times, to the newly created position of chief operating officer of Tribune's publishing division.

Discussion: Associated Press and Deadline.com

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

A Personalized News App At Its Simplest: No Articles, Just Data — INSTEAD OF TRACKING HEADLINES, NUMBEEZ TRACKS NUMBERS. HERE'S WHY THAT MIGHT NOT BE AS ABSURD AS IT SOUNDS. — When Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to build a “personalized newspaper,” he's talking about photos, conversations between friends, music and news articles.

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.

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

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

Joshua Gallu / Bloomberg:

Netflix CEO Won't Face SEC Claims Over Disclosures on Facebook — Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings won't face regulatory sanctions for having posted monthly online viewing information on his personal Facebook page even though the company didn't report the information …

Discussion: U.S. Securities …, Fortune, The Next Web, Quartz, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

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 …

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 …