Mediagazer: Reddit Spiffs Up Its Front Page, Demoting Controversial Parts As It Goes (Fruzsina Eördögh/ReadWrite)

8:15 AM ET, July 18, 2013

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Ian Crouch / News Desk:

The Inconvenient Image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — The magazine cover retains its unique cultural power—to amuse, to inform, to agitate, or, as is the case with the forthcoming August 1st issue of Rolling Stone, to enrage. That cover, unveiled on Tuesday night, features a photographic self-portrait …

Discussion: Slate, Erik Wemple, bizjournals, msnbc.com, Fox News, Media Nation, @sdkstl, @clarajeffery, Gawker, The Huffington Post, New Republic and Softpedia News

Jake Tapper / The Lead:
Former White House National Security spokesman assails Rolling Stone cover

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed — As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated.

Discussion: GigaOM, Softpedia News, Foreign Policy, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, Fast Company, @normative, @dustinslaughter, Techdirt, Guardian, @ioerror, @billpollock and The Verge

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency — Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, @emilybell, SocialTimes, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, AppleInsider, VentureBeat and TUAW

Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:

'Community's' Dan Harmon Reveals the Wild Story Behind His Firing and Rehiring — TV's most controversial showrunner (and self-professed “rude a**hole") renews his feud with Chevy Chase, recalls his attacks on NBC and Sony, reveals his regrets over the rape joke and details how Joel McHale helped him get his old job back.

Discussion: Splitsider, Flavorwire, Gawker, Studio System News, UPROXX and The Huffington Post

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders — When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine television …

Discussion: Business Insider, ParisLemon, @dankennedy_nu, Tech Trader Daily, PC Advisor and TechSpot

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Byliner's new iPad app aims to find your next long read — Long-form journalism site Byliner has a new iPad app that aims to match readers with articles based on how much time they have to read. The app is also going to be the main vehicle for Byliner's $9.99 subscription product, Byliner Plus.

Feminista Jones / Salon:

Is Twitter the underground railroad of activism? — The Zimmerman trial may have introduced white America to “Black Twitter,” but its roots go back centuries — “It's just Twitter” is a refrain often tweeted by people who insist that they don't take much of what they read on Twitter seriously.

Discussion: She The People

Aisha Harris / Slate:
What Is “BlackBuzzfeed”?

Discussion: The Awl, BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: six journalists in court over payments — Four Sun staff and Daily Star Sunday deputy editor among those accused of paying public officials for information — Six newspaper staff including four Sun journalists staff have appeared in court accused of paying public officials …

Discussion: Telegraph

BBC:
Sun deputy editor Geoff Webster denies ‘plotting misconduct’

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk

American Journalism Review:

American Journalism Review To Become Online Only Publication — The American Journalism Review will end production of its print edition and launch a redesigned website in Fall 2013 as it becomes an online-only publication, the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism announced Wednesday.

Discussion: NPR, NetNewsCheck Latest, JIMROMENESKO.COM, eMedia Vitals, @saramorrison, @cfstraumsheim, @jbenton, @billmon1, @merrillcollege, @davidfolkenflik, @ombudsman, @romenesko and NEWS.com.au

Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:

Magazines of Stuff: Embracing the Physical in the Digital Age — One way to react to the digitization of magazines is to experiment with the physical nature of the publications as tangible things. There's been a return to the sensual pleasure of ink on paper and luxuriant design, especially at small, independent magazines.

Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWrite:

Reddit Spiffs Up Its Front Page, Demoting Controversial Parts As It Goes — Reddit is cleaning house, sweeping some of its less savory elements under the carpet as it spiffs the place up. — On Wednesday, Reddit management via blog post shook up the social news and community site …

Discussion: reddit, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Pew: 31% of tweets reflected anger following Zimmerman verdict — The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly 5 million tweets in the first 26 hours after the George Zimmerman verdict. Pew found that 39 percent of the tweets shared news sans opinion. Of the 38 percent of tweets that reflected opinions …

Discussion: Pew Research Center

John Paul Titlow / FastCo.Labs:

Sure, We Like Spotify—But Thom Yorke Has A Good Point — Thom Yorke is pissed. In case your Internet's been down, the Radiohead frontman has joined longtime creative co-conspirator Nigel Godrich in decrying Spotify and the economics of streaming services like it.

Discussion: Music Week, Guardian, TechRadar.com, The Next Web, @sparker, @eldsjal, TwitLonger, @nigelgod, Forbes and @fourtet

Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:

Edward Snowden Book: Glenn Greenwald Gets Deal — Reporter Glenn Greenwald's book also will “contain new revelations” about the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs. — Glenn Greenwald, the investigative reporter who broke the story on NSA leaker Edward Snowden …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and New York Times

Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times:

China says it'll relax film, TV censorship; directors unimpressed — Director Jia Zhangke, shown with actress Tao Zhao at the Cannes Film Festival, says China's easing of restrictions on film, TV and radio content isn't a revolutionary step forward. (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images / May 26, 2013)

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Turner Shuffle: John Martin to Succeed Phil Kent as CEO in January — After a dozen years at the helm, Phil Kent will step down from his post as CEO of Turner Broadcasting in January and will be succeeded by Time Warner chief financial officer John Martin. — Kent will remain chairman of TBS for a period in 2014.