Mediagazer: Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

7:20 AM ET, July 24, 2013

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

The rise of the personal franchise site in news — “This is in many ways how major media has domesticated blogging.” — Yesterday the buzz in newsland was all about Nate Silver's decision to move his FiveThirtyEight.com franchise from the New York Times to ESPN. A subplot was provided by public editor Margaret Sullivan.

Discussion: HubSpot's Inbound …, @om, The First Bound, @boraz, The Corsair, SPLICETODAY.com and FishbowlNY

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

Nate Silver's genius isn't math. It's journalism. — The news that Nate Silver is leaving the New York Times for a role at ESPN and ABC News (corporate synergies! They're a thing!) has occasioned some interesting posts on what he got right during the election. — Nate Silver (Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press)

Discussion: Slate

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Is Flipboard a partner or a competitor for publishers and content creators? Yes — Flipboard has always had a somewhat double-edged relationship with the publishers who create the bulk of the content that flows through its apps: it theoretically gets those content creators a larger audience …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Not Just for Mobile Anymore: Flipboard Magazines Come to the Web

Discussion: GigaOM, Inside Flipboard, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, eMedia Vitals, Wired, Mashable, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and CNET

Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:

Longform Journalism is Alive and Well, Say Co-Founders of Byliner, Atavist — Over the weekend, I found myself at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine, Texas. It was my first trip to the gathering, even as a native north Texan, but I must say it was an extremely valuable …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Erik Wemple:

New York Times's Brian Stelter to guest-host CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ — Brian Stelter, a New York Times reporter covering television and digital media, will guest-host an edition of CNN's Sunday program “Reliable Sources,” the media-watchdog show that longtime host Howard Kurtz recently left for a job with Fox News.

Discussion: Gretawire, @gretawire, @brianstelter, Mediaite, TVNewser and Politico

Justin Elliott / ProPublica:

NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails — The NSA is a “supercomputing powerhouse” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture.

Discussion: Slate, emptywheel, NPR, The Daily Caller and Boing Boing

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law — Since last year the Finnish public has had the option of suggesting the kind of laws they want to be governed under. — A recent modification of the national Constitution allows citizens to make legislative proposals for Parliament to vote on …

Discussion: Motherboard, Fast Company, TeleRead, RT and Softpedia News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Like “Sharknado,” but Bigger: Facebook Has Five Times More TV Chatter Than Twitter — For the past couple of years, Twitter has been making a very big deal about TV and Twitter's value to the TV Industrial Complex: Promote your shows on our service, Dick Costolo and company tell the TV guys …

Discussion: The Trendrr Blog, Quartz and Variety

Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:

Executive Editor Owen Phillips Exits The Hollywood Reporter — For the past three years, Owen Phillips (pictured) has worked tirelessly alongside Hollywood Reporter editorial director Janice Min to re-brand a moribund trade. After coming up for air this spring, Phillips decided it was time to move …

Discussion: Folio and Hollywood Reporter

Liz Shannon Miller / paidContent:

When it comes to digital content, are the Emmys broken? Or just painfully behind? — While the perception might be that Netflix has changed the game for awards recognition of digital content, Thursday's less-discussed nominations prove that the Emmys are still way behind the times.

Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:

Creating Internet accountability — Author Rebecca MacKinnon's new project aims to rank Internet giants on human rights — Rebecca MacKinnon is the sort of person who, after Edward Snowden leaked details of the government's digital surveillance program, could say, if she wanted to: I told you so.

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Rory Carroll / Guardian:

California newspaper defies industry wisdom to stay alive - and prospers — Orange County Register shocked the crisis-stricken industry with an ambitious experiment. One year later, the paper is celebrating — Conventional media wisdom posits several ways for a newspaper to commit suicide.

Dan Farber / CNET:

CNN's Jeff Zucker trades analog dollars for digital quarters — “The truth is digital and people consuming news and information from all of our digital assets, that's the most important thing for us,” the CNN president said. — CNN Jeff Zucker believes that digital is the future of CNN.

Discussion: Fortune, TVNewser, Fortune, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter