Mediagazer: Bezos invests in WaPo's IT infrastructure, software development, social media team, apps, more (Richard Byrne Reilly/VentureBeat)

7:55 PM ET, May 13, 2014

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French journalist murdered in Central African Republic: Hollande — (Reuters) - A French journalist has been murdered in Central African Republic, President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement on Tuesday, the first Western reporter to be killed in the country since France sent troops there in December.

Discussion: Associated Press, Guardian, New York Times, @antderosa, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, The Week, @williamsjon, Mashable, @a2linefrancois, @erinmcunningham, PetaPixel and @rtlfrance

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.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, BuzzFeed, @photoshelter, @anupkaphle, Al Jazeera America and PetaPixel

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: Digital Trends, SlashGear, Fortune, bizjournals and Agence France-Presse

Reuters:

Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet — People can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results, Europe's top court said on Tuesday. — The case underlines the battle between advocates of free expression and supporters of privacy rights …

Discussion: Guardian, Business Insider, Daily Dot, Search Engine Land, @infomgmtexec, Washington Post, @emilybell, Associated Press, Kirk LaPointe's …, MarketingVox News & Trends and The Loop

Dan Appenfeller / AJR.org:

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

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

The FCC's net neutrality Twitter chat was actually useful — Twitter chats are rarely productive; the host's messages often get lost amid the flood of questions and comments from other users, and there's definitely an incentive for others to hijack the hashtag.

Discussion: Globe and Mail

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

Discussion: Quartz, multichannel.com, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, @b_fung, @fcc, @sensanders, @gigibsohnfcc, SPIN and The Verge

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair's website — Katherine Goldstein will be the new editor of Vanity Fair's website, VF.com, Vanity Fair said in a press release. … Goldstein, who is currently director of social media and traffic at Slate, worked at the Huffington Post before that.

Discussion: @poynter and FishbowlNY

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

NYT photographer constructs backpack kit with 4 modems to stream photos live to the newsroom — Times photo staffer's invention: the streaming backpack — Back during the 2012 presidential campaign, New York Times photographer Josh Haner was right at the scrum, trailing presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Poynter, @harrisj and The Newspaper Guild

Bradley Campbell / PRI:

Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004 — It was about a year ago that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden got two journalists into a Hong Kong hotel room, where he divulged some of the biggest US state secrets in modern history.

Discussion: PBS, Guardian, @pbump, @obsoletedogma, @trevortimm, @xeni, WBUR and Boing Boing

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Multiple sources confirm internal efforts to make long-demanded paywall change. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change to the Xbox Live Gold paywall for streaming media services.

Discussion: Xbox Wire, Cinema Blend, Variety, VentureBeat, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, PC Advisor, VG247, The Verge, Business Insider, Polygon, @briantong, Mashable, Pocket-lint, Geeky Gadgets, UPROXX, VG247, @mrgobert, @pkafka, SlashGear and Glass

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Texas Tribune launches its new combination op-ed page/sponsored content pitch … We told you back in November that the Texas Tribune — as successful a news nonprofit, pound for pound, as exists in this country — was trying to get a piece of that sponsored content pie with something called TribTalk.

Discussion: TribTalk

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

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Hunger-striking Al-Jazeera journalist is near to death — Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah el-Shamy, who has been on hunger strike in Egypt for more than 100 days, is near to death according to his doctor. — “He has started to have impaired liver and kidney function,” said the doctor, Mohamed Osama el-Homsi.

Discussion: Al Jazeera English, Poynter, @jmalsin, MWC News, mUmBRELLA, The Huffington Post and Daily News Egypt

Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Peter Greste gains support for release from prominent Egyptians

Discussion: @amyfeldtmann and VICE News

Richard Byrne Reilly / VentureBeat:

Bezos invests in WaPo's IT infrastructure, software development, social media team, apps, more — The Washington Post is hitting a new ‘prime’ time under Amazon founder's wings — Above: WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 6: Shailesh Prakash, The Washington Post Chief Information Officer, left …