Mediagazer: The Data-Driven Future Of Journalism (Owen Thomas/ReadWrite)

8:55 AM ET, September 9, 2013

Top News:

A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link — Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.

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Alexander Zaitchik / Rolling Stone:

Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail — The mid-June sun is setting on the Mansfield jail near Dallas when Barrett Brown, the former public face of Anonymous, shuffles into the visitors hall wearing a jumpsuit of blazing orange. Once the nattiest anarchist around, Brown now looks like every …

Discussion: @skddc

Dylan Byers / Politico:

POLITICO publisher buys Capital New York — In an ambitious play for the New York market, POLITICO publisher Robert Allbritton has purchased the online news site Capital New York, with plans to make “a substantial investment” in the business and more than quadruple staff.

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Coming this fall: A new and improved Capital

Discussion: @gillianmae and @tmcgev

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime — Changes at The Washington Post's will be the most watched media story of the coming months and, perhaps, years. Why? First of all, with the iconic Watergate saga, The Post epitomized a historic high in print journalism.

Discussion: Markham Nolan

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

The Data-Driven Future Of Journalism — Everyone seems to assume that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, spent $250 million on the Washington Post as some kind of hobby or charitable move. And some question whether he even has a plan on how he'll run the newspaper.

Discussion: Street Fight, @stevebuttry and @joegermuska

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.

Discussion: Guardian and @rajunarisetti

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Tencent adds Disney, Pixar and Marvel blockbusters to its movie streaming service in China — Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which owns the popular messaging service WeChat, announced today that it has partnered with Disney Studio to stream films from Disney, Pixar or Marvel Studios …

Discussion: Digital Journal

Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Tech journalist Kara Swisher is a feared player — Will her influential blog, ‘All Things D,’ leave the Rupert Murdoch empire? — CONNECT — In every journalism generation, there are various re-enactments of the 1957 movie Sweet Smell of Success, in which Burt Lancaster plays J.J. Hunsecker …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

Advance Publications scraps AnnArbor.com — A return to The Ann Arbor News name and integration with MLive — Back in 2009, Advance Publications shut down the 174-year-old daily Ann Arbor News, unveiled a new website named AnnArbor.com, dropped a lot of Jarvis-esque buzzwords, and started a …

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

‘Riptide’ tells the story of digital news from teletext to Twitter — What did the internet do to the news business? It's a big question, but three Harvard Shorenstein fellows are about to give it the longest and most in-depth treatment it's ever received, in the form of an interactive article called Riptide that launches tonight.

Discussion: Poynter and AllThingsD

Graeme Wood / Businessweek:

Univision's English-Language News Network, Fusion, Targets Millennials — Isaac Lee, the Colombia-born 42-year-old in charge of news at the Spanish-language network Univision, is a traitor: first to his native tongue, and second to his generation. As the architect of the forthcoming …

Discussion: TVNewser

Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:

‘PBS NewsHour’ Begins Its Overhaul — The 38-year-old “PBS NewsHour” began a new era this weekend, adding Saturday and Sunday newscasts for the first time and preparing for the debut on Monday of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as the new weeknight anchor team and the first female co-anchors at any network.

Discussion: @vivianschiller and @azmatzahra