Mediagazer: Ex-Reuters London bureau chief takes up chief executive role at Index on Censorship (Press Gazette)

10:55 AM ET, April 8, 2014

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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

Attributr bookmarklet updated to scrape Flickr source code to get Creative Commons attributions after breakage caused by redesign — Restoring CC attribution to Flickr, because Yahoo broke it — For years, Flickr has been one of the most important repositories of Creative Commons imagery in the world …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast, Time Warner Cable Defend Union as Benefiting ‘Millions’ in FCC Filing — Cable giants cite increased competition in video market, including from Netflix, Apple, Google and Amazon — Comcast's $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable will benefit millions of consumers and businesses …

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Vox Media's key to growth: working with “media hackers”, says CEO Jim Bankoff — Vox Media ventures into general news and news analysis with Vox.com — Jim Bankoff was already fascinated, even a bit obsessed, by the media when he was in the third grade. As a class project, he developed his own make-

Discussion: @lock, @chadmumm, @voxmediainc and @joshuatopolsky

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Marty Baron on Ezra Klein's departure: “The company is owned 100 percent by Jeff Bezos …

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Laurie Penny / New Statesman:

From Vox to 538, white guys get feted as the future of journalism while everyone else gets attacked and dismissed — Yesterday, I was contacted separately by two distressed friends, both writers, both women. One is famous, successful, hard as diamond under glass and trying gamely …

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Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Twitter launches photo-centric profile redesign, rolling out over next few weeks — Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Xbox Boosts User-Generated Video Play with YouTube and GoPro — Microsoft is making it easier for Xbox One users to share their gameplay videos on YouTube — a hugely popular genre on the Google-owned service — and is adding a channel to bring action videos captured with Go Pro's personal HD cameras to the console.

Discussion: Xbox Wire, Softpedia News, TIME, TechCrunch, Engadget, Nerdist, The Verge and Guardian

Paul McNally / Press Gazette:

Law set to give Attorney General power to edit online news archives in the run-up to trials — Nine of Britain's biggest news organisations have issued a joint warning to MPs about the potential “chilling effect” of a planned law forcing online archive news stories to be removed in the run-up to a criminal trial.

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Collaborative-writing platform Wattpad gets $46M in financing for global expansion — Wattpad, a collaborative-writing community that helps new authors connect with a community of fans and fellow writers, has closed a new round of financing worth $46 million that co-founder and CEO Allen Lau …

Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Press Gazette:

Ex-Reuters London bureau chief takes up chief executive role at Index on Censorship — Former Reuters London bureau chief joins Index on Censorship — A former London bureau chief for Reuters has been appointed the new chief executive of Index on Censorship.

Discussion: Guardian and Index on Censorship

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Time Out creates new product to let users review venues and events — Time Out jumps on the platform bandwagon — Time Out was once the authority on restaurant and nightlife reviews. Now, it is bowing down to the wisdom of crowds. — The site has created a new user review product …

Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Billboard Magazine Names Tony Gervino Editor-in-Chief — Billboard magazine on Monday named Tony Gervino its new editor-in-chief. — Gervino, who begins the role on April 28, will report directly to Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media Entertainment Group.

Discussion: Billboard, Adweek, Folio, New York Post, FishbowlNY, Complete Music Update, New York Times and WWD Media Headlines

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Engadget launches UK site to target its second largest audience with dedicated staff of two — Why Engadget wanted to launch UK-focused site — The news editor of Engadget UK explains the thinking behind the launch of the new site, and future ambitions for more video, social curation and a focus on audience engagement

Discussion: HITC, thedrum.com and Engadget

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Publishers including US Weekly and Rolling Stone experimenting with sponsored comments — Publishers bring native ads to their comment sections — Native advertising, the ad format du jour, has been an effective way for publishers to make money, ostensibly without interfering with the reader experience.

Discussion: TechCrunch, @dangoldgeier, @jlandau, @melisbuzzfeed, @beschizza, @ssktanaka, @bradparsons and Business Insider

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

How ThinkProgress became ‘real competition for scoops’ — One morning in late February, ThinkProgress' climate reporting team met in a narrow conference room with the thermostat set to 72 degrees and a selection of Bigelow teas in one corner. — There were eight people around the table …

Discussion: @buzzfeedben and @neeratanden