Mediagazer: The Problem With TV Everywhere: No One Wants It (Joe Marchese/MediaPost)

9:00 PM ET, January 23, 2014

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AP severs ties with photographer who altered work — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013. — The news service said Wednesday …

Adam Weinstein / Gawker:

Should the AP Really Have Fired This Pulitzer-Prize War Photographer? — The Associated Press announced Wednesday that it had parted ways with Narciso Contreras, a freelance photographer who shared in a Pulitzer for his work in Syria last year. The reason Contreras was let go, basically …

Discussion: @amy_stein and @garonsen

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Brooks 'sought James Murdoch's approval for Sun's backing of Tories' — Laptops contained four News International documents and football and racing apps, the Old Bailey told — Rebekah Brooks sought the personal approval of James Murdoch for the Sun editorial comment which marked …

Discussion: @courtnewsuk, Hacked Off and mUmBRELLA

James Doleman / The Drum: Police officer arrested for leaks to the Guardian, phone-hacking trial hears

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks ‘asked Times editor for sourcing of Milly Dowler story’

Discussion: @lisaocarroll

William Wan / Poynter:

Covering China: for foreign and domestic press, self-censorship's the threat — It's not easy being a journalist in China these days. — Chinese reporters are facing new government restrictions, including forced training in Marxism and a new written “ideology” exam.

Discussion: @comradewong

Alice Speri / Al Jazeera America:

Intimidated journalists in Russia hesitate to criticize Sochi Games … Last April, Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov, who had exposed corruption in the construction of a highway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg, died of injuries sustained in a brutal beating he had received years earlier.

Discussion: @plew108

Noreen Malone / The New Republic:

What Happens When You Give TV's Biggest Fanboy His Own TV Show? — The remarkable rise of Brian Stelter — On a recent episode of CNN's media show, “Reliable Sources,” there was a brief moment when the whole enterprise threatened to collapse in on itself.

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jonathanchait, @mlcalderone, @hillarykelly and TheBlaze.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Slate's Matt Yglesias Joining Ezra Klein Venture — Matt Yglesias, a prominent blogger and Slate's “Moneybox” columnist, is leaving the site at the end of February to join Ezra Klein's new venture, according to a staff memo. — Slate editor-in-chief David Plotz described Yglesias's departure as …

Discussion: @mattyglesias, New York Times and The New York Observer

John McDermott / Digiday:
Publishers to Ezra Klein: Good Luck! You'll Need it!

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @digiday

John Seigenthaler / Al Jazeera America:

Jill Abramson talks to John Seigenthaler — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden helped The New York Times “keep the public informed on what I consider to be very important matters,” says Jill Abramson, the woman who has the final say on what constitutes “all the news that's fit to print.”

Discussion: Politico, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Week, @drudge_report, @justinhorwath, @froomkin, @frankluntz, @annecronin, @jaredbkeller, JIMROMENESKO.COM and TheBlaze.com

Dugald Baird / Guardian:

Stan Collymore returns to Twitter and hits out at the Sun — Former England footballer asks for ‘solutions to help Twitter police itself’ after suspending account following racist abuse — Stan Collymore has criticised the Sun as he returned to Twitter after suspending his account over racist abuse that he received on the site.

Discussion: Softpedia News and Press Gazette

Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
Can a Tweet Put You in Prison? It Certainly Will in the UK

Discussion: @thedailybeast, @jaimemaggio and @mcmoynihan

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

CNN laid off more than 40 journalists at end of 2013 — CNN and HLN “laid off more than 40 senior journalists in its newsgathering operation” at the end of 2013, Matthew Garrahan reports in the Financial Times. — The cuts “coincide with changes to the network's programming,” Garrahan writes.

Discussion: Financial Times, TVNewser, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine, Politico, @brianstelter, Mediaite, Inside Cable News and Business Insider

Joe Marchese / MediaPost:

The Problem With TV Everywhere: No One Wants It — “TV Everywhere” is a term used to describe the ability to have a TV-like experience from any device in any location by using one set of credentials (most likely tied to your cable account). While the surge of connected mobile devices …

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Dozens of journalists injured in Kiev during protests, five people killed — This AP photo made its way across Twitter Wednesday, showing journalists covering protests in Kiev. One, as you can see, wears a colander to protect his head instead of a helmet. Helmets, you see, were banned by the government.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, kyivpost.com, @poynter and The Lede

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Setting Its Sights On Content Personalization, AOL To Acquire Gravity For $90.7M — AOL is announcing that it has reached a deal to acquire content personalization startup Gravity for an initial $83 million, with another $7.7 million paid out over the next two years.

Discussion: Re/code, AOL Corp, New York Times, PandoDaily, Gravity, Forbes, ZDNet, Gigaom, Business Insider, AdAge, Variety, CNET and Softpedia News

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

How geolocation may play a bigger role in future newsgathering — At a debate at London's Frontline Club, experts at the cutting edge of newsgathering discussed what factors and technologies will play a role in the future — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Mediashift:

Relaunched American Journalism Review Puts Students to Work … Co-authored with Sean Mussenden — On the top floor of the University of Maryland's journalism school, students are learning about the future of news by covering it. — Like most journalism schools, the Philip Merrill College …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Now that's adaptive design! The Verge show different versions of a story to Apple, Google, or Microsoft users — To say that a website is responsively designed usually means that it responds to the width of the screen or browser window it's being displayed in — looking different on a phone than on a 27-inch monitor, for example.

Discussion: SND, Boing Boing and MetaFilter

Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:

Why Related Links Are Getting So Racy and What Publishers Can Do About It — An Option For Serving Mild Related Links, But Probably Earning Less Money Too — The related links section of a news website can often be its most confounding. It's not unusual, for instance …

Discussion: The Content Strategist and MarketingVox News & Trends

Rebecca Greenfield / Fast Company:

How HarperCollins's Chief Digital Officer Uses Big Data To Make Publishing More Profitable — Having worked at EMI records for over a decade, Chantal Restivo-Alessi knows what it's like to have the digitization of media cannibalize your industry. “I went through the digital revolution early on with music …

Caysey Welton / Folio:

TechMedia Network Acquires BuyerZone — TMN says the acquisition will account for up to 25 percent of total revenue. — TechMedia Network Inc. announced that is has acquired BuyerZone from Reed Business Information. — TMN is a digital tech and science publisher with proprieties like Space.com, TopTenReviews and LAPTOP.

Phil Dzikiy / iLounge:

Apple TV may get game support with Bluetooth controllers and direct game downloads by March — Reports: Apple TV to add games in coming update — iLounge has heard from reliable industry sources that Apple TV will soon be getting proper game support in an update, likely to come in March or earlier.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, BGR, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, Digital Spy, Business Insider and Electronista

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

NewsCred Raises $25 Million to Fill a Content-Marketing War Chest. (What's Content Marketing Again?) — Advertisers have spent the last few years toiling away in the social media fields, and now have long lists of followers on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to show for their efforts.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Fast Company, Gigaom, Business Wire, @adamostrow, PandoDaily, Tech City News and TechCrunch

Jennifer M. Wood / Wired:

Kickstarter Has Changed Indie Moviemaking for Good — While Hollywood insiders talk about which big-budget studio movies made and lost the most money in 2013, there's a far more interesting number to consider: 3,000,000. That's how many people backed crowdfunding projects for a total …

Discussion: WebProNews