Mediagazer: NBC News Scooping Up Mobile Video Site Stringwire (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)

1:45 PM ET, August 12, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NBC Buying Web Service to Stream Phone Video — When a plane crashes or a protest turns violent, television crews speed to the scene. But they typically do not arrive for minutes or even hours, so these days photos and videos by amateurs — what the news industry calls “user-generated content” — fill the void.

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

NBC News Scooping Up Mobile Video Site Stringwire — The notion that anyone with a phone who witnesses news is a potential source for news video has been around for a while. — CNN, for example, has long had its iReport app. Twitter itself has become the go-to source for many kinds …

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Anthony De Rosa / Soup:
The disconnect between traditional media and UGC

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David Carr / New York Times:

Magazine Writing on the Web, for Film — To many writers, to almost anyone for that matter, Joshuah Bearman and Joshua Davis are living the dream. As accomplished practitioners of big, nonfiction magazine writing, they regularly publish articles in Wired, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and many other A-list titles.

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Zee M Kane / The Next Web:

The Daily Mail caught plagiarising an entire article. Surprised? — When you're running a site that publishes as many articles as The Daily Mail does, it's perhaps somewhat understandable that mistakes slip through the cracks. But when it happens, it deserves to be addressed and corrected, particularly when it's as blatant as this.

Discussion: Cracked, Daily Mail, @themediatweets, @aljwhite and @alhannaford

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Politico Ramps Up Long-Form Journalism Effort — Politico announced Monday that Jason Zengerle, a contributing editor at GQ and New York magazine, is joining the publication as a senior staff writer, and Washington magazine's Denise Kersten Wells will come aboard as a senior editor.

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Tim Worstall / Forbes:

The First Thing Jeff Bezos Should Do At The Washington Post Is Fire Some Journalists — As someone peripherally a journalist I'm really not supposed to say such a thing: rather goes against the professional omerta to claim that there should ever, in any manner, be fewer journalists on anyone's payroll.

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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
For Bezos, The Post represents new frontier

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Time Magazine Branches Out Into Documentary Films — As most print news outlets scramble to find greater profits in a punishing media market by adding more online video content, they are trying to figure out exactly what kind of video content they want to provide. Do they produce short, televisionlike broadcasts?

Discussion: @kirapollack and MWD

Natalia Mazotte / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Journalism and video games come together as a new form of storytelling in Brazil — Editor's note: Our friends at the Knight Center for the Americas are taking a look into the spread of gamification of the news in Latin America. In a Q&A originally posted on the Journalism in the Americas blog …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

FT names Edgecliffe-Johnson U.S. Editor — Via Mike Allen's Playbook (bold mine): “The Financial Times ... announces the appointment of Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson (@Edgecliffe) as US news editor. From October he will coordinate the FT's daily Americas news coverage globally.

Discussion: Financial Times, @bensherwoodabc, @bobbymacreports and @edmundlee

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Ex-PCC director Stephen Abell becomes the Sun's managing editor — Editor David Dinsmore welcomes Stig for his ‘knowledge and experience’ — Stephen Abell, the former director of the Press Complaints Commission, has been appointed as managing editor of the Sun.

Discussion: Press Gazette, @stigabell, Hollywood Reporter, BBC and The Drum

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Wattpad Launches New Self-Publishing Crowdfunding, First Revenue Model For The Social Network — Wattpad, the Toronto-based social network based on writing and reading, has just announced a new crowdfunding platform called “Fan Funding” which offers authors on its network the chance to leverage …

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com, GigaOM, The Bookseller and AppNewser

Mike Snider / USA Today:

Internet TVs may drive consumers to cut pay TV cord — A “perfect storm” of online video, new devices, rising prices and programming blackouts is eroding traditional pay-TV providers' grip on living rooms. — CONNECT — The evidence of a pay-TV cord-cutting effect is growing.

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