Mediagazer: Copy Editors Carve Niche in Digital Media Landscape (Dan Appenfeller/American Journalism …)

10:05 AM ET, May 14, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine — Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month? — Quite a bit, it turns out.

Discussion: Gigaom

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Remains King of Bandwidth Usage, While YouTube Declines — Videogame-streaming service Twitch gains share of downstream traffic, breaking into top 15 applications by usage, according to study — Netflix, already the biggest single driver of Internet bandwidth …

Discussion: ABC News, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and ctvnews.ca

Dan Appenfeller / American Journalism Review:

Copy Editors Carve Niche in Digital Media Landscape — Abraham Hyatt saw the writing on the wall. — More than a year into his three-year managing editor stint at ReadWrite, a popular technology news site, Hyatt watched traffic plummet from roughly 5 million pageviews a month to less than 3 million.

Discussion: @mrbutterworth, @kimbui, @tcarmody, @tcarmody, @dcseifert, @rachaelbl, @kleinmatic, @pinkgrammar, @emmabgardner, @gerrrib, @kubremner, @jaredbkeller and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. execs line up at spinoff trough — As Time Inc. insiders brace for a new round of pre-spinoff layoffs that are expected to begin next week, recently unveiled numbers show the top brass at the publisher are not sharing in the pain. — Norman Pearlstine, the executive vice president …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Letter from major ISPs urges FCC not to reclassify broadband as a utility — Internet Providers Strike Back on Net Neutrality — In a surprise to no one, Internet providers warned federal regulators that treating broadband like phone lines will stunt future investments and service upgrades.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, @waltmossberg and Daily Dot

Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC Twitter chat on net neutrality proves useful; draft to ask whether fast lanes should be banned, public comment period extended to 60 days

Discussion: BBC, @vanschewick and @amy_schatz

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate

Discussion: Quartz, Broadcasting & Cable, Washington Post, Reuters, @b_fung, @fcc, @sensanders, @gigibsohnfcc, SPIN, The Verge and Associated Press

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

London Live TV company ESTV lost more than £1m in 13 months — New figures reveal Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny invested £2m to help set up service — The company behind the London Live TV channel has reported a loss of more than £1m …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Frances Robinson / Wall Street Journal:

Google Faces Challenges in Europe After Privacy Ruling — Surprise Decision Will Have Implications for Privacy Throughout Europe — BRUSSELS—Individuals can ask Google Inc. to remove links to news articles, court judgments and other documents in search results for their name, the European Union's highest court said Tuesday.

Discussion: New York Times, @lawlibnc, @dangillmor, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Poynter, bizjournals, Agence France-Presse and Reuters

B&T:

Newspaper mastheads up even though print readership down — Many of Australia's major newspapers have upped their masthead audiences, even though fewer people are reading the print editions. — Seven out of the ten main capital city daily newspapers increased their masthead audiences …

Emma Hall / AdAge:

WPP leads acquisitions race with 6 tech firms and 10 marketing/communications companies bought in Q1 2014 — WPP Leads Acquisition Trail Again to Start the Year — Sorrell's Group Buys More Tech Companies — Festival — Internet Week New York — WPP, the largest agency holding company …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily

Mark John / Reuters:

France's Le Monde newspaper editor quits after power struggle with staff — Natalie Nougayrede, first female editor-in-chief of prestigious French daily Le Monde, quit on Wednesday after a power struggle with top staff who last week staged a protest over her plans to revamp the newspaper.

Discussion: english.rfi.fr

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

VICE, Mashable, Digg and others form a collective for breaking news about Ukraine, may expand into other areas — A group of six news organizations and digital-media outlets — including VICE, Mashable, Digg, Quartz, Mother Jones and NBC-owned Breaking News — have created …

Discussion: PandoDaily, VICE News, @vivian, @monikabauerlein, Capital New York and @miamabanta

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Atlantic Media and other publishers supplement ad income by building sites for others — To make ends meet, publishers get moonlighting gigs — When the conservative Heritage Foundation built its new news site, The Daily Signal, it didn't work with a traditional design agency.

Discussion: @pbump and MarketingVox News & Trends

Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:

Mail Online soft launches Australian content as Nielsen rankings remain stable — The Mail Online has switched its website to largely Australian content, in what appears to be a full launch for one of the newest entrants in the Australian online news space.

Discussion: Daily Mail, @jarrodwhittaker, @onlyapaprmoon and @penelopejones

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Cole's Cosmopolitan — When Cosmopolitan took home a National Magazine Award for public service journalism—the first ASME recognition in the magazine's almost 50-year history—the news echoed through headlines as signal of the state of things …

Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic — On Tuesday, the office of the French president confirmed the death of Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photographer, who was killed while working in the war-torn Central African Republic.