Mediagazer: Watching the audience move: A New York Times tool is helping direct traffic from story to story (James G. Robinson/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:10 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, @polina_marinova, @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.

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The New York Times is restructuring its Page 1 meetings to be more digital (as that big report suggested) — If you want to do something newsworthy at The New York Times and not have people notice, I guess the best thing to do is to put it on Times Insider.

Discussion: New York Times, @niemanlab, @jbenton, @robweir and @raju

James G. Robinson / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Watching the audience move: A New York Times tool is helping direct traffic from story to story — Since its creation last April, The New York Times' News Analytics team has been working closely with editors and reporters to introduce audience insights into our journalistic decision-making …

Discussion: metamedia

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Breaking: Source Interlink Distribution to Shut Down — After losing Time Inc. business, all operations to cease. — As was widely speculated following the news that Time Inc. dropped its wholesale services, Source Interlink Distribution has announced that it's shutting down.

Discussion: Canadian Magazines

Matt Hardigree / Jalopnik:

Automobile Magazine Cuts Staff And Fires Editor — 20,389g — Giving credence to yesterday's rumor, Automobile magazine's Michigan offices have been closed, much of its staff has been let go, and the Editor-in-Chief Jean Jennings has been fired. This comes along with Source Interlink …

Discussion: Automobile Magazine, Jalopnik, BMW BLOG, @mattclarke_am, @nsfwlife, @mickimaynard, @steintrek, @damonlavrinc, @sailthetethys, @stanceandspeed, @jalopnik, @dutch_mandel, @randyshayler, @pseudobread and Autoblog

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, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge, The Next Web, @pigsandplans, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, AllAccess.com and hypebot

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Apple didn't want Beats, it needed Beats — As music downloads dwindle, streaming is the new king — Onstage at the Code Conference last night, Apple's Eddy Cue and Beats' Jimmy Iovine answered some questions about the marriage of their two companies. Beats is best known for its headphones …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Re/code and Cult of Mac

Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Jimmy Iovine's four decades of experience and artist connections lend credibility to Apple's music plans

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

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

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

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

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, Mashable, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, @brianstelter and MediaWire Daily

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, Associated Press, BBC and Reuters

Agence France-Presse:
Turkey sentences Twitter user to jail for blasphemy

Discussion: Mashable and Daily Dot

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, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Daily Dot 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

Bill Mickey / Folio:

MIT Technology Review Launches Tiered Subscription Plan — Latest effort to support digital-first brand strategy. — MIT Technology Review officially launched its tiered subscription plan today. Called Insider, it offers three pricing levels and has emerged from a long period of market testing and a two-month beta.

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

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, Multichannel News, The Hill, Fortune and Boing Boing

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Joan Smith becomes president of press reform campaign Hacked Off — The journalist and free speech campaigner Joan Smith has been announced as the next executive director of the press reform campaign Hacked Off. — Ms Smith, who was a victim of phone hacking by the News of the World …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Sam Thielman / Adweek:

LeVar Burton Gets $2 Million Via Kickstarter to Bring Back Reading Rainbow — LeVar Burton, probably best known to anyone who was or had a child during the 1980's and '90's as the host of Reading Rainbow, launched a Kickstarter on Wednesday asking the public to help him fund a a digital version of the show …