Mediagazer: More code, more coders: Knight invests $4 million to expand Knight-Mozilla partnership (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

3:45 PM ET, October 17, 2013

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED) — Adversarial muckrakers + civic-minded billionaire = a whole new world — Make no mistake, news that Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to start a new publication funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar is giant news …

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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Civic-minded billionaires like Omidyar and Bezos will save journalism, and that's not so bad

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Union warns ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ employees to be ‘careful what you say’ — Stormy weather at ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer.’ — The union that represents hundreds of employees at the embattled Philadelphia Inquirer has a warning for them. — “It has become painfully clear that your work emails …

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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Philly newspaper stars in ugly melodrama

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

IsoHunt to Shut Down After Settlement With Hollywood Studios — The BitTorrent indexer has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a copyright infringement case. — The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that it has reached a settlement with the operators of IsoHunt …

Discussion: GigaOM, Ars Technica, Deadline.com, Variety, Techdirt, Daily Dot and The Next Web

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

It's Official: Mike Hopkins Named CEO of Hulu — Interim CEO Andy Forssell exits — Hulu has announced Fox Networks distribution chief as CEO of Hulu. — Interim CEO Andy Forssell will be leaving the company. — “After an extensive search, Mike was simply the best candidate for the job.

Discussion: Business Wire, NetNewsCheck.com, Hollywood Reporter, @brianstelter and Engadget

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Maker Studios Founder Danny Zappin Buys Website NewMediaRockstars — Danny Zappin, former CEO and co-founder of YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios, has acquired Internet video news website NewMediaRockstars, seeking to build it into what he envisions as an Entertainment Weekly for online entertainment.

Discussion: The Wrap, FishbowlNY, AllThingsD and YouTube News

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

More code, more coders: Knight invests $4 million to expand Knight-Mozilla partnership — The Knight Foundation is reinvesting in Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to help grow the community of journalism-centered hackers and find ways to better integrate them into media companies.

Discussion: Online News Association, FishbowlDC, Poynter and Knight Foundation

Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

The rise of ‘dark search’ is great for publishers, bad for keyword stuffers — At Google, the keyword is inching towards its inevitable, overdue demise. But then again, maybe its death is already here. Over the past few months publishers have seem a dramatic rise in the amount of traffic …

Brian Lowry / Variety:

News' Need to Pump Web Traffic Presents Speedbump for Network TV Coverage — For years, the interests of TV networks and newspapers were pretty closely aligned - today, however, the old rules are shifting — For years, the interests of TV networks and newspapers were pretty closely aligned, or seemed to be.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Cameron's triple panics are responsible for the press regulation stalemate — The political attempt to appease regional publishers by tinkering with the cross-party royal charter on press regulation has failed to change their minds. — It looks as though the companies that own Britain's 1,200 regional …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Guardian and Techdirt

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

NewsCred launches NewsRoom, a freelance-based news wire service — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — While the majority of demands for syndicated content comes from well-established publications like the New York Times, there is need for content that's a bit more niche — either in subject matter or the depth of reporting.

Discussion: Fast Company, Forbes and Mashable

Steve Keenan / World Travel Market:

Amazon pulls Bill Bryson interview ebook reprint over copyright claim — Blogger beware - the battle over Bill Bryson's words — In 1994, freelance travel writer Mike Gerrard interviewed illustrious author Bill Bryson for a magazine called Passport. The article duly appeared.

Discussion: Financial Post, @101holidays, @strwbilly, @matthewteller and @stevenkeenan

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

How Robert Costa Became the Golden Boy of the Government Shutdown — As the dust settles from the government shutdown and debt-ceiling standoff, and while John Boehner and Ted Cruz figure out what's next from out the wreckage, at least one man on the right is giddy.

Discussion: @jaketapper, @jonathanchait, @danfostertype, Politico, @jayrosen_nyu and @billwasik

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Gets Its E-Book Antitrust Monitor — The federal judge who found Apple guilty of colluding with five of the six largest publishers in the U.S. in an e-book price-fixing scheme has chosen the external antitrust compliance monitors charged with making sure the company doesn't overstep the law again.

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Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:

Macmillan to Offer Entire E-book Backlist to Libraries — Less than a year after launching a pilot with its Minotaur Press imprint, Macmillan officials today confirmed that it will expand its library e-book offerings to include its entire e-book backlist, more than 11,000 titles.

Discussion: GigaOM and Publishers Lunch