Mediagazer: The not-so-quaint charm of the email newsletter (Frédéric Filloux/Monday Note)

10:55 AM ET, December 9, 2013

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Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled — In China on Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke plainly about the role of a free press in a democratic society. — “Innovation thrives where people breathe freely, speak freely, are able to challenge orthodoxy, where newspapers …

Discussion: @rosental, Kirk LaPointe's …, @arusbridger, @carr2n and @raju

Robert Mahoney / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A chill over British press

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog and TechCrunch

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The not-so-quaint charm of the email newsletter — In spite of today's obsession with social networks, the email newsletter remains a potent vector for the dissemination of news and for driving traffic back to websites. It comes with one condition, though: reintroducing a human touch.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @qz

Andy Serwer / Fortune:

Inside the mind of Jonah Peretti — The visionary media entrepreneur, diviner of virality and one-time enfant terrible (he turns 40 on New Year's Day) explains the mechanics of how information spreads, his personal reading habits, and why it's dangerous to be a slave to the numbers.

Discussion: @raju, AdExchanger, @danoshinsky, @fortunemagazine, @summeranne and @niemanlab

Hadas Gold / Politico:

NYT Public Ed: Forsythe could join Times — New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had an interesting and perhaps prophetic line in Sunday's paper: In a column about the growing problems facing foreign journalists in China, Sullivan suggests that ex-Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe …

Discussion: New York Times and New Yorker

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

How To Use The Media To Sell A Company — “Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right,” blares the headline of a Bloomberg story published Friday morning. The headline isn't as informative it sounds, however: a basic operating principle of mergers and acquisitions reporting …

Discussion: @peterlauria3 and @jimpoco

Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:

Brian Stelter Officially Debuts as CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ Host — Though he's appeared as a guest host since August, Sunday marked the official debut of host Brian Stelter on CNN's Reliable Sources. The former New York Times reporter introduced himself before launching into a briskly paced hour of interviews.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, TVNewser, @brianstelter, @wolfblitzer and Inside TV

Dan Caterinicchia / Poynter:

College websites seeing mobile migration, but not all are ready — Website traffic at the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald was less than 1 percent mobile in 2010. This year, it's 39 percent and growing. And while visits on desktops have more than doubled to 951,000 since 2010 …

Discussion: @doughaddix and @elanazak

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report — NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration Sunday of having “cherry-picked intelligence” regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as evidence for an argument …

Discussion: London Review of Books, Politico, BuzzFeed, @frieze_magazine, Gawker and New York Magazine

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Trinity Mirror launches ‘socially-shareable data journalism’ site — Ampp3d, Trinity Mirror's new project for “socially-shareable data journalism”, launches today to “explore both the day's news agenda and a range of topics that people care passionately about”, according to the site.

Discussion: @martinbelam and Guardian

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath — Free societies depend on free-swinging critiques, even those that are “unbalanced” or “go too far.” — On Wednesday afternoon, as previewed earlier, I got to serve as moderator for a panel of four very eminent writers …

Edward Moyer / CNET:

Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up (Q&A) — Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother. — That's not a bad take on how the 46-year-old constitutional-law attorney turned crusading journalist turned thorn in the side of the NSA might describe his mission.

Discussion: Forbes and @wblau

Richard Parker / Columbia Journalism Review:

At Jake Silverstein's “amped up” Texas Monthly, water policy, immigration, and BBQ are all cover stories — At Jake Silverstein's “amped up” Texas Monthly, water policy, immigration, and BBQ are all cover stories — AUSTIN, TX — From his posh office on the 17th floor, Jake Silverstein …