Mediagazer: As the Latest Christie Story Evolved, The Times Should Have Noted a Change (Margaret Sullivan/The Public Editor's …)

7:00 AM ET, February 4, 2014

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Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom:

Facebook's Paper is Facebook for people who hate Facebook — For the past couple years, Facebook has trained its mobile efforts on capturing various facets of social interaction. The social network has compartmentalized and optimized features (Messenger), mimicked the experiences …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Paul M. Barrett / Businessweek:

Media Watch: Why We Need Shoe-Leather Local Reporters — Buckle up for a lecture about the civic virtues of old-fashioned journalism. This is a business story for the media industry. It's also a concern of the first order for society at large. We are losing a vital resource as local reporters fade from the scene.

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Tim Franklin, incoming president of the Poynter Institute, talks with TheWrap about the need for urgency — Tim Franklin, incoming president of the Poynter Institute, believes that paywalls and the Ezra Keins of the business are its future. — The outgoing Washington managing editor …

Geoffrey King / Committee to Protect Journalists:

Turkish Internet bill would deepen press freedom crisis — The Turkish parliament is on the verge of voting on radical censorship measures that, if approved, would allow the government to block individual URLs without prior judicial review, mandate Internet data retention for periods of up to two years …

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

Nets, Stations Push Back On Retrans Via TVfreedom.org — Will make case for broadcast programming and good faith negotiations — Broadcast networks and their affiliate associations have teamed up with broadcast groups, mobile digital broadcasters and others to launch TVfreedom.org …

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Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

In Des Moines, the Register's new newsroom space aims to be a symbol of its digital future — The Des Moines Register said goodbye to almost a century worth of memories in June when it left its 13-story home for a floor-and-a-half of commercial real estate in what had been vacant office space.

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Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

As the Latest Christie Story Evolved, The Times Should Have Noted a Change — In the digital age, news evolves before our very eyes. A story breaks and goes online with perhaps a few rough paragraphs. Soon after, more details are added, new angles explored and writing is tuned up.

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Vivian Salama / Columbia Journalism Review:

Preventing war by promoting ‘peace journalism’ in Uganda — A program in Uganda aims to keep violence away and, perhaps, promote peace in war-torn neighbors — “Do not kill those cockroaches with a bullet; cut them to pieces with a machete,” blared Rwanda's Radio Télévision …

Gina Hall / L.A. Biz:

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Guardian and The Newspaper Club bring its robot-built, longread-loving newspaper back into print — The Guardian and The Newspaper Club are getting back into business for another printing of The Long Good Read. — The algorithm-driven newspaper, which collected the best …

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Ian Burrell / The Independent:

BBC attempts to break into a global audience by harnessing the viral power of YouTube — Newsnight and Radio 1 are leading the charge a new strategy by the BBC to break out of the confines of the schedule and find a new global audience via YouTube. — The BBC2 flagship news programme …

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