Mediagazer: Sun on Sunday overhaul expected in September (Guardian)

6:45 AM ET, August 29, 2013

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive) — You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next — Press+, which provides paywalls for the websites of several top newspaper chains …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

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Guardian:

Sun on Sunday overhaul expected in September — Tabloid thought to relaunch after News UK's recruitment of 16 new staff and editor's pledge to take paper ‘to greater heights’ — The Sun on Sunday is expected to unveil a radical overhaul in September, 19 months after Rupert Murdoch launched …

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Kelly McBride / Poynter:

What the ESPN/Frontline breakup teaches us about investigative reporting — As we put the pieces together in this week's ESPN/Frontline breakup, we've learned something about investigative journalism: it's incredibly difficult for a news organization to hold its own partners accountable.

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The Express Tribune:

New York Times website restored after hacker attack — The popular New York Times website returned to service on Wednesday after hackers forced it down for nearly a day, with a group backing Syria's government claiming responsibility. — The website nytimes.com, one of the most influential sources …

Ted Johnson / Variety:

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Cameron Tung / The New Yorker Blog:

How Podcasts Conquered Comedy — When Marc Maron recorded his third comedy album, in the summer of 2008, he was a respected standup performer whose commercial prospects were so grim that he was bracing himself for the sputtering end of a twenty-five-year career. In his bleakest moments, he mulled suicide.

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ — We haven't heard much about Verizon's rumored plans to buy out Vodafone's stake in the company for $100 billion for a few months now, but according to the Wall Street Journal those talks have been “rekindled.”

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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

BuzzFeed has a Medium problem — BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system. With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work of a promiscuous, condomless Satan …

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Stijn Debrouwere / stdout.be:

Cargo cult analytics — This is a talk I gave at a Hacks/Hackers meetup in Berlin on August 21, 2013. — Thanks for inviting me to speak at this Hacks/Hackers meetup. My name is Stijn Debrouwere. I'm a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow and I'm loosely affiliated with the Guardian's data science team in London.

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Jeremy Thompson / Press Gazette:

Mick Deane: 'We can't let the bad guys win, the people rely on us to be their voice' — Mick Deane died as he lived, doing his best. Doing his best to open the eyes of the world to injustice. Doing his best for his mates. And he never did less than his best.

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