Mediagazer: 7 insights into social strategy at The Economist (Rachel Bartlett/Journalism.co.uk)

9:45 PM ET, September 7, 2013

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Girish Gupta / USA Today:

Venezuela's newspapers running out of paper to print — CARACAS, Venezuela — “This city has grown up around this newspaper,” says Antonio Briceño, the editor of La Antorcha, a newspaper in Venezuela's eastern city of El Tigre. “But the problem is getting worse every day.

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ProPublica's Jeff Larson on the NSA crypto story — Yesterday, ProPublica, the New York Times, and the Guardian collaboratively broke the story of the NSA's Bullrun program and its encryption-cracking capabilities. This afternoon, Erin Kissane sat down with ProPublica's Jeff Larson …

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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

7 insights into social strategy at The Economist — As The Economist celebrates its 170th anniversary this month, we look at how it has adapted in the digital and social age — Copyright: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — The Economist is celebrating 170 years since …

Discussion: @suellewellyn

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Bold Play by CBS Fortifies Broadcasters — Leslie Moonves, the longtime chief executive of CBS, has heard the jokes about CBS being old and out of step because of the age of its audience and because it does not have enormous assets in the cable network world.

Discussion: @bryandfischer and @pkafka

Jeremy Greenfield / Mediashift:

The Rise of ‘Hybrid Authors’ Who Have Self-Published and Had Publishers — The rise of self-publishing as a viable economic model for authors has started to disrupt the book publishing business — and nobody has benefited more than so-called “hybrid authors.” Allow me to explain.

Discussion: @pbsmediashift and TeleRead

Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:

Where Julian Assange Lies in Wait—and What He's Planning Next — Julian Assange hasn't set foot outside Ecuador's London embassy in more than a year—avoiding extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault. But physical confinement seems only to enhance his reach.

Discussion: The Verge and @sarahlellison

Jack Shafer:

The NSA never takes “no” for an answer — At several recent junctures, the U.S. government has publicly sought to expand its power and control over the electronic privacy of its citizens. At each point, the government was roundly foiled by the public and the majority of the political class, which rebuked it.

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Activists call on N.Y. Times, ProPublica to release unredacted NSA information

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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

The five big decisions facing Bezos at WaPo — When Jeff Bezos takes control of The Washington Post in a few short weeks, the Amazon founder will face five enormous decisions that will shape the future of an iconic newspaper once so powerful that it drove President Richard M. Nixon from office.

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

CEO Mark Thompson gives a few glimpses into the near-term growth strategy of The New York Times — New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson was back in his native U.K. today to give an address at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, which is celebrating an anniversary of its fellowship program.

Discussion: Guardian, @edgecliffe, New York Times, Guardian, @mattdpearce, @mathewi, @marklittlenews, @niemanlab and @jbenton

Alexander C. Kaufman / International Business Times:

Who Pays Interns? Few Media Firms Do, But This Tumblr Helps You Find Which Ones That Will — If you want to intern at a magazine, prepare to be unpaid. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri — Four years of Ivy League school. Three unpaid internships in the country's most expensive city to live in.

Discussion: @petersterne and @natrudy

Guardian:

Former BBC chairman contradicts Thompson in £1m payout row — Sir Michael Lyons says he was not fully briefed on Byford's severance terms, as five current trustees distance themselves from Thompson's claims that they were involved in the payout — Former BBC director general Mark Thompson …

Discussion: @edgecliffe, New York Times, @lisaocarroll and @matthewwells

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of big sports money — and news — Our cavalcade of news and sports convergence now seems to be happening by the month. — Last week, it was Los Angeles Dodgers principal owner Mark Walter publicly mulling the possibility of buying his hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times …

Discussion: @kennysmith, @sportsbiz_prof, @warhovert, @mcg5, @robertscraigm and @niemanlab