Mediagazer: Are Personal Essays the Future of Digital Journalism? (Aneya Fernando/10,000 Words)

11:05 AM ET, October 3, 2013

Top News:

Patrick Wintour / Guardian:

Mail on Sunday ‘sorry’ for gatecrashing Miliband family memorial service — Ed Miliband says reporter attended service for his uncle to question relatives about Daily Mail story on his father, Ralph — Ed Miliband has written to the proprietor of the Mail on Sunday, Lord Rothermere …

Discussion: @malidaily, @lewiep and BuzzFeed

Press Gazette:

Two Mail on Sunday journalists suspended after approaching mourners at memorial for Miliband uncle — The Mail on Sunday has “unreservedly” apologised to Ed Miliband after an uninvited reporter went to a private memorial service he was attending for his late uncle.

Discussion: @domponsford

Guardian:

Daily Mail-Ed Miliband row casts cloud over press regulation talks — Paper's attacks on Labour leader's father comes week before a crucial meeting of MPs to decide on how to police newspapers — The Daily Mail's blistering attack on Ed Miliband's late father has again seriously damaged relations between …

Discussion: Financial Times, The Independent, Channel 4, BBC and BBC

New York Times:

Social Networks in a Battle for the Second Screen — After “Breaking Bad” drew 10.3 million viewers to one of the most crowd-satisfying finales in television history on Sunday, Twitter and Facebook raced to tell the news media about the throngs who shared their instant reactions to the show on the social networks.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, @rozzy, @vindugoel and @clayco

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Turner Nets Go Dark on Washington Post Co.'s Cable One, While Verizon FiOS Renews Pact — About 600,000 customers of Washington Post Co.-owned Cable One lost access to Turner Broadcasting System's cable channels Tuesday — which the programmer said is the first blackout in its history …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Radio & Television …

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Turner Gets Fee Increase From Verizon — FiOS Service Agrees to Higher Price to Carry Cable-TV Networks — Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Broadcasting unit reached a long-term agreement with Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS service for carriage of its cable networks, the second major distribution deal …

Discussion: Corporate Intelligence, Hollywood Reporter, Sun Herald and @tedataca

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

Meredith and Scripps expand online video offerings with original shows — Two Media Mainstays Expand Their Video Presence — TWO companies that are mainstays in legacy media are expanding their presence in online video, producing more original Web series as they follow consumer eyeballs and advertiser dollars.

Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:

These Journalists Spent Two Years and $750,000 Covering One Story — It costs a lot, but investigative reporting can save lives. And non-profits lead the way in producing high-quality, in-depth stories. So who's going to pay for them? — In recent weeks, ProPublica has published a major …

Discussion: @damiencave, @kmbtweets, @mikeriggs, @ron_fournier, @anjalimullany, @tcarmody and @delong

Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review: A look (and listen) at Reveal, public radio's first investigative reporting show

Aneya Fernando / 10,000 Words:

Are Personal Essays the Future of Digital Journalism? — Personal essays have never been more popular online. Sarah Hepola, Salon.com's personal essay editor, thinks she knows why: “People have always been drawn to personal narratives. It's one of the fundamentals of storytelling: Through your story, I better understand my own.

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

TiVo, Rovi Flirt With SeaChange: Sources — Rovi and TiVo Have Pursued a Deal For Video Software Company As They Seek New Business Growth Angles — TiVo and Rovi are among the companies that are interested in buying what's left of SeaChange International, three industry sources said.

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Ebooks gone global: Report suggests less resistance, more legal sales and importance of Apple — The growth of the ebook market outside the U.S. and U.K. has been slow — but 2013 may be a turning point, according to a new report on the global ebook market (PDF) from consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart.

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

How Team Clinton Shut Down the CNN and NBC Hillary Shows — CNN and NBC have both canceled planned shows about Hillary Clinton. Lloyd Grove reports on a killer operation by Team Clinton to protect her presidential ambitions. — In the Darwinian world of media and politics, hardly any primal force compares to Clinton Clout.

Discussion: @evanchill, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine and New York Times

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Jukeboxing: Rdio fights Spotify with free mobile radio — Rdio is releasing a free version of its service today on iOS and Android, bringing personalized radio to non-paying users of its mobile apps for the first time. Free of advertising for now, Rdio's unpaid offering represents a chance …

Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM, Fast Company, Associated Press, hypebot, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, Gizmodo and Mashable

Matt Brian / Engadget:

France approves law stopping Amazon from shipping discounted books for free — French lawmakers have it up to “here” with Amazon's book-selling tactics and they're not going to take it any more. In a rare alliance, France's ruling Socialist Party and the opposition UMP Party approved …

Discussion: BBC, FRANCE 24, GigaOM, Betabeat, @erichippeau, Reuters, Sky News, Softpedia News, Telegraph and GeekWire

AAN:

San Diego Reader Launches eBook Publishing Program to Re-Introduce Great Writing to New Readers — The San Diego Reader is mining gold from its rich archives and releasing the treasures as a collection of six eBooks, the first installment of a series that will showcase the literary quality …

Jim Romenesko:

Washington Post inadvertently releases names of journalists who received stock-option bonuses — About three weeks ago, the Washington Post Co. sent an email to 63 newsroom employees who have received stock-option bonuses. “The options were apparently awarded over the past three years …

Discussion: @jamesvgrimaldi and The Daily Caller

Andrea Mitchell / Politico:

An unflappable anchor with a huge heart — The following essay is part of a series in which dozens of women will reveal what women they most admire. The series is part of “Women Rule,” a unique effort this fall by POLITICO, Google and The Tory Burch Foundation exploring how women …

Discussion: msnbc.com