Mediagazer: Former Washington Post owner starts scholarship fund to send undocumented students to college (Kristen Hare/Poynter)

8:50 AM ET, February 4, 2014

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Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

Journalists protest at Egypt's Nairobi embassy over detention of Al Jazeera staff — Almost 100 journalists protested outside the Egyptian embassy in Nairobi to call for the immediate release of two Al-Jazeera reporters detained in Cairo. — Peter Greste and Mohammed Fahmy were arrested …

Discussion: BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Maxime Zech / NL Times:

Dutch journalist flees Egypt after being accused of aiding terrorist network linked to Al Jazeera — Dutch journalist escapes Egypt — Dutch journalist Rena Netjes is on her way back to the Netherlands after being accused by Egypt for aiding a terrorist network tied to news channel Al Jazeera.

Discussion: TheBlot and @jmalsin

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 …

Discussion: Poynter, NYT Bits, Softpedia News, @niemanlab, @epak, @anttislaine, @matthewpennell, @mitali, Business Insider, The Verge and Forbes

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Facebook and the race to make content go viral — meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Discussion: @shafqatislam, @lhockenson and Business Insider

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Trinity Mirror shares rise after profit upgrade — Daily Mirror and Sunday People publisher says results will be ahead of expectations thanks to digital growth in late 2013 — Trinity Mirror's share price rose 6% in early trading on Tuesday on the back of a profit upgrade for 2013 …

Discussion: Life Style Extra, Reuters, London News, PrintWeek and thedrum.com

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Former Washington Post owner starts scholarship fund to send undocumented students to college — The Washington Post's former owner wants to send dreamers to college — Donald E. Graham, a former owner of The Washington Post, has created a fund to help send “dreamers” …

Discussion: @kristenhare and Washington Post

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Twitter and Facebook Win the Super Bowl. And Fox and the NFL Really Win the Super Bowl. — The numbers are in. And pretty much everyone who doesn't live or work in Denver won last night's game. — That is: Nielsen says this year's Super Bowl — boring by halftime and just about unwatchable …

Discussion: Forbes, PandoDaily and VatorNews

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Super Bowl: Netflix Traffic Fell 20% in First Half, But Then Bounced Back to Normal Levels

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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 …

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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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 …

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users — When Adobe announced their new DRM a couple weeks ago some said that we would soon see compatibility issues with older devices and apps as Adobe forced everyone to upgrade. — At that time I didn't think Adobe …

Discussion: @hadrien and @tobias_fischer

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 …

Discussion: Variety

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.

Discussion: @niemanlab and The Newspaper Guild

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 …