Mediagazer: ‘Riptide’ tells the story of digital news from teletext to Twitter (Russell Brandom/The Verge)

7:20 AM ET, September 9, 2013

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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.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, @dangillmor, @nickkristof, @carr2n, @monahol, @mlcalderone and @ggreenwald

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 — This is going to allow us to get bigger and better. — Here's what we're doing now: — Hiring more people: This will bring you more stories from more reporters and editors on topics central to the mission of a website dedicated to explaining how New York works.

Discussion: @tmcgev

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime — We can be sure Jeff Bezos will try many things with the Washington Post. One could be drawing inspiration from Amazon's fabulously successful Prime service. (First article in a series) — Changes at The Washington Post's …

Discussion: Fast Company, Guardian and 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: @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

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: @azmatzahra

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Coming out from under a cloud, Howard Kurtz debuts his new show, as host-hunt continues for his old one — Howard Kurtz debuted his new 11 a.m. Sunday show, “Media Buzz,” on Fox News today, marking the veteran media critic's first big moment back in the spotlight following his ignominious exit …

Discussion: TVNewser, Erik Wemple and Reliable Sources

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Storyful verifies social media video from Syria — A Dublin-based company sorts out the real from the bogus in video on social media from Syria and other venues. — CONNECT — Covering the violence in Syria has been a staggering challenge for the world's news organizations.

Discussion: @sarahkeb