Mediagazer: Syrian Electronic Army hacks TIME magazine over Assad (RT)

5:30 PM ET, November 29, 2013

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

This online journalism startup raised $1.7M in crowdfunding and you've never heard of it — We've been writing a lot lately about online journalism startups like Matter — which was acquired by Medium and just dropped its paywall — and NSFW Corp., the Vegas-based venture that just merged with Pando Daily.

Ernst-Jan Pfauth / The Next Web: How we turned a world record in journalism crowdfunding into an actual publication

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

100 leading figures urge newspaper publishers to accept royal charter — More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter system of press regulation.

Discussion: Press Gazette, HoldTheFrontPage, Guardian, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Spectator, Kirk LaPointe's …, @paul__johnson, Guardian, BBC and Guardian

The Huffington Post UK: British Newspaper Editors Described As ‘Angry Donkeys’ By Former Sun Boss David Yelland

Jack Shafer:

If Katie Couric is the answer, what's the question? — Web publishing — never a diffident business — has been calling attention to itself all week long. Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, whose forte as boss has been the shimmering acquisition (Summly, Tumblr, Xobni, Rockmelt …

Discussion: @antderosa, @nickkristof and @emptywheel

Edward Wong / New York Times:

Bloomberg Code Keeps Articles From Chinese Eyes — In early 2011, during a period of heightened tension between the Chinese government and foreign journalists, Bloomberg News created coding to give editors the ability to categorize stories under a new class, called 204.

Human Rights Watch:

Iraq: Wave of Journalist Killings — Security Forces Fail to Investigate, but Arrest Reporters for Defamation — (Baghdad) - Four journalists have been assassinated in Mosul, the capital of Iraq's Ninewa Province, since early October 2013. Iraqi security officials have said they were investigating …

Discussion: Guardian, @iainlevine, @astroehlein, @samerhrw, @sarahleah1 and Aswat Al Iraq

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

GoldieBlox, the Beastie Boys, and fair use — The toymaker backs down amid a murky legal case — I wrote on Monday that GoldieBlox's parody of the Beastie Boys song “Girls” was a a “clear case” of copyright infringement. — As Felix Salmon pointed out , that overstated the legal argument quite a bit …

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. to ‘dramatically’ expand native ad business — Time Inc. is going native. — CEO Joe Ripp plans to “dramatically” expand into the so-called native ad business and has issued a request for proposals to find a partner that will help scale up new native ads on a wide variety of platforms.

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RT:

Syrian Electronic Army hacks TIME magazine over Assad — The hacktivist pro-Assad group known as the “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA) briefly hijacked the Twitter feeds of TIME magazine in response to a critical description of President Assad's candidacy for its ‘Person of the year’ award.

Discussion: @matthewkeyslive and Techworm

Glenn Greenwald / UT Documents:

Wall Street Journal's Alistair MacDonald “reports” an outright lie — The Wall Street Journal's Toronto-based reporter, Alistair MacDonald, last night published what can only be described as an outright lie. Here's what he claimed: … And this: … Not only is it patently false …

Discussion: Editor's Blog, National Review, New York Times, @ggreenwald, @wicary, @rondeibert, @macdonaldajm, @macdonaldajm, @dangillmor, @macdonaldajm, Guardian, Online NewsHour, Daily Dot and TheHill

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

At The Miami Herald, maybe newsroom place still matters — When The Miami Herald left its home on Biscayne Bay, many in the newsroom were wistful. The newsroom had been right in the heart of downtown and home to memories and legends. Two movies had been shot in the building: Absence of Malice …

Chad Bray / DealBook:

Pearson to Sell Financial News Group for $623 Million — LONDON — Funds affiliated with the private-equity firm BC Partners have reached an agreement to acquire Mergermarket Group from the British publisher Pearson for 382 million pounds, or about $622.7 million.

Discussion: @rafat, TheStreet.com, Reuters, Breakingviews and Bloomberg

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

The Guardian Now More Popular In US Than UK — LONDON — It started out as The Manchester Guardian in 1821 and had since become a national newspaper. But, this fall, The Guardian crossed another geographical rubicon - it became more popular in the US than its native UK.

Discussion: @moorehn and @jimpoco, Thanks:@steverubel