Mediagazer: It's alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a human (Joseph Lichterman/Nieman Journalism Lab)

6:25 PM ET, May 29, 2014

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Who's behind that tweet? Here's how 7 news orgs manage their Twitter and Facebook accounts — On a typical day, The Wall Street Journal publishes about 500 or 600 stories. And with correspondents spread across the globe, those stories go up around the clock.

Discussion: @ericcarvin, @bydanielvictor, Cision and Talking Biz News

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

It's alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a human — May 22 was World Goth Day! To celebrate, NPR's main Twitter account, @nprnews, sent out a tweet to its 2 million-plus followers sharing a 2013 NPR story on Goth Barbie.

Discussion: the npr social media desk

Chris Ariens / FishbowlNY:

Prometheus Global Media acquires Mediabistro editorial and e-commerce assets for $8M — Prometheus Global Media to Acquire Mediabistro — So, we're in the news today. This morning, Mediabistro is announcing that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its editorial …

Discussion: Poynter, Folio, Media & Entertainment, @brianstelter, Mashable, The Wrap, MediaWire Daily and FishbowlDC

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Hastings: Comcast wants to become the ‘post office’ — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — He said, he said. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Thursday continued to stump against Comcast's proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable in an appearance at the Code Conference.

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Talks Net Neutrality (Liveblog) — Netflix has been on a roll. — The Internet video service now boasts 35.7 million domestic subscribers, widening its gap on rival premium TV channel HBO in the U.S. It announced plans to enter France, Germany and four …

Discussion: Consumerist, The Tell, @johnpaczkowski and @antderosa

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Jimmy Iovine's four decades of experience and artist connections lend credibility to Apple's music plans — Jimmy Iovine, a Master of Beats, Lends Apple a Skilled Ear — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's new music impresario, Jimmy Iovine, didn't start out writing code or studying computer engineering …

Discussion: TIME, SocialTimes, Bloomberg, @stevenbjohnson, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, @peterlattman, @bryfitz, @hugolindgren and Los Angeles Times

Ed Christman / Billboard:
John Janick to Succeed Jimmy Iovine as Chairman, CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Cult of Mac, The FADER, Hollywood Reporter, @reckless, Variety, New York Times, New York Magazine and Re/code

Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cue and Iovine talk about Beats acquisition, competing streaming services, Apple TV, more

Discussion: Fortune, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Guardian, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, VatorNews, MacStories, The Verge, @recode, ReadWrite, @lanceulanoff, @parislemon, @stevecase, @nichcarlson, @larrymagid, @jonfortt, @inafried, @fmanjoo, The Tell, MacRumors, Mashable, CNET, The Next Web and @johnpaczkowski

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Iranian hacker “Newscaster” campaign used real journalists' names, fake reporter personas — Cyberespionage Attacks Tied to Hackers in Iran — SAN FRANCISCO — An elaborate, three-year cyberespionage campaign against United States military contractors, members of Congress …

Discussion: iSIGHT Partners, VentureBeat, Daily Dot, Bloomberg, Washington Post and Mashable

Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Hackers' Fake News Site Relied on Plagiarized Stories

Discussion: Reuters, The Verge, @wsjpolitics, iSIGHT Partners and Latest News & Headlines

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Conde Nast Drafts an Internal ‘Magna Carta’ for Native Advertising — Publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair Seeks to Codify Tactic — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy — Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker, has asked its editors and publishers …

Discussion: @joepompeo, Kirk LaPointe's …, mUmBRELLA, Capital New York, The FJP and FishbowlNY, Thanks:@natives

Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:

Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board — Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs — The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.

Discussion: Gigaom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Next Web, @pigsandplans, Mashable, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors and hypebot

Chris Welch / The Verge:

YouTube reveals which US internet providers are best and worst at streaming — Starting today, internet providers in the United States will finally be held to account for lackluster YouTube streaming speeds. Google has brought its Video Quality Report — first launched in Canada at the start …

Discussion: Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, Boing Boing, Electronista and BetaNews

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

BuzzFeed tinkers with sponsored content labels as native advertising evolves — “Native” Ad Labelling is a Work in Progress — “Native” advertising, or advertising content designed to blend in with editorial content, is all the rage. But publishers and marketers are still figuring …

Discussion: @noahchestnut and @jackmarshall

Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:

Guardian redesigns app, offers increased personalization, UGC submission, and interactives — A whistle-stop tour of the new Guardian app — The Guardian's new app for iOS and Android allows users to personalise their homepage and directly submit user-generated content — Read more

Discussion: Guardian, Cult of Mac, Techworld.com and App Advice

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Vimeo Enters Original Programming Business With Its First Web Series — Vimeo will make a new season of the web series “High Maintenance,” the video service's first attempt to fund its own programming, the company said Wednesday. Vimeo will finance six new episodes of the series …

Discussion: Lost Remote, FishbowlNY, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Variety and VentureBeat

Al Jazeera English:

Turkey's top court rejects YouTube ban — Constitutional court says ban imposed in March on video sharing site violated individual rights and freedoms. — Turkey's top court has ruled that a blanket ban on YouTube violated individual rights and freedoms, clearing the way for the popular video-sharing site to come back.

Discussion: USA Today, BBC, Reuters and Associated Press

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Newsmax to launch channel with DirecTV — Newsmax Media will launch a cable channel with DirecTV in June, the conservative news site announced on Thursday. — In its announcement, Newsmax said it is “focused on serving an audience of more than 80 million disenfranchised Baby Boomers” with the distribution deal.

Discussion: TVNewser, Multichannel News, Newsmax.com, FierceCable and Talking Points Memo

Mandy Jenkins / Zombie Journalism:

Technology is a solution, not a problem, for women in newsrooms — So maybe you've noticed - there's a lot of talk about women in journalism these days in the wake of Jill Abramson's unplanned exit from the New York Times. Aside from being a woman and a journalist, I haven't generally felt …