Mediagazer: Stephen Colbert's In-House Tech Startup Wants to Fix TV Scripts (Joshua Brustein/Businessweek)

9:20 AM ET, June 18, 2014

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Kushner's wrong; trying to save print journalism steals resources from planning for the future — Nostalgia and Newspapers — Aaron Kushner, CEO of Freedom Communications and the architect of a contrarian plan to expand southern California newspapers, began erecting hard paywalls …

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

Why Audiences Hate Hard News—And Love Pretending Otherwise — Ask readers what they want, and they'll tell you vegetables. Watch them quietly, and they'll mostly eat candy. — You may not realize this, but we can see you. Yes, you. The human reading this article.

Discussion: @davidcochrane, @misspress, @emmamayalex, @stacyherbert, @jimmyorr, @rebeccaschinsky, @michaellinhorst, @kctvphotogbrett, @onceupona, @jonathanhaynes, @tomchivers and Washington Post

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Daily Telegraph's Brogan departs as group seeks 40 new recruits — Ex-deputy editor leaves newspaper along with columnist and blog editor Damian Thompson — Benedict Brogan, the Daily Telegraph's former deputy editor and its chief political commentator, has left the newspaper.

Discussion: Guy Fawkes' blog, Press Gazette and BREITBART.COM

Todd Spangler / Variety:

World Cup Sets New Internet-Video Streaming Record — The 2014 FIFA World Cup is still in its opening round, but the soccer tourney has already broken the previous global record for online-video streaming and set new digital high-water marks for ESPN. — Monday's Germany-Portugal match drove …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, @raanan, Capital New York, New Yorker, Associated Press and TVNewser

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Stephen Colbert's In-House Tech Startup Wants to Fix TV Scripts — Is it too soon to discuss the legacy of the Colbert Report now that its always-in-character blowhard host is presumably ditching his persona and taking over David Letterman's desk? Sure, he put the term “truthiness” …

Discussion: @bw

Angela Haggerty / The Drum:

ASA bans Outbrain's native ad ‘recommended’ links on publisher websites — The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a ‘recommended links’ promotion for failing to make clear that linked-to articles were paid for by advertisers. — The ruling against content distribution business Outbrain …

Discussion: Press Gazette, mediaweek.co.uk, marketingweek.co.uk and Guardian

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse:

Twitter Restores Access to Pakistani Notices — Abstract: Today, June 17th, Twitter has restored access to the tweets and Twitter accounts that it blocked in Pakistan on May 18th, using its Country Withheld Content tool. — Pakistani authorities had requested the removal of the material …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, BBC, Softpedia News, Engadget and The Next Web

Luke Vnenchak / New York Times:

NYT's content-management system Scoop: managing 700 articles, 600 images, 14 slideshows, 50 videos a day — Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS — You know the importance of technology to the future of journalism has become a widely accepted fact when a prominent editor decides to join …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @richoakley, @amyoleary, @rjs, @robinsloan, @leslienassar and @wblau

Juan Antonio Giner / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“From a news business to a networked business”: The FT pushes its workflows to digital — Editor's note: Every year, Innovation Media Consulting prepares a report for WAN-IFRA on the state of innovation at newspapers around the world. The new edition is out now — here's an excerpt …

Discussion: The Content Strategist and Financial Times

Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:

UK newspaper sites get majority of traffic from outside the country, but struggle to monetize — The global reality for UK newspapers, and why that's still a challenge as well as a victory — Guardian News & Media, The Daily Mail, The Independent, Advertising, Digital Media, Newspapers

Discussion: @henryctaylor

Jefferson Graham / USA Today:

iHeartRadio crosses 50 million users in 3 years — LOS ANGELES — The iHeartRadio online radio service has cracked the 50 million registered users mark in three years, a feat it says is faster than Facebook or Twitter achieved in that time frame. — The number is far from the 250 million …

Discussion: Clear Channel Communications … and VatorNews

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

AnonyWatch: When Unnamed Sources Are Flat Wrong — In a blistering column this week, the Reuters media critic Jack Shafer takes The Times to task for using a particular kind of anonymous source — the kind who turn out to be wrong. — In two recent cases, he writes, The Times was left “at the corner of Mortified and Peeved.”

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin and Jack Shafer

Yinka Adegoke / Billboard:

YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns — YouTube has confirmed it is close to launching its music subscription service, even as it in the process of pulling down some of the biggest indie label acts in a dispute over payments. — Acts like Adele …

Discussion: USA Today, Guardian, @ow, @viticci, BBC and Businessweek

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube to Block Music Videos from Labels That Don't Sign On for Subscription Service

Discussion: Guardian, Engadget, Softpedia News, Rolling Stone, @yinkawrites, Gawker, AdAge, Business Insider, The Verge, hypebot, @scroobiuspipyo and TechCrunch

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

NY Times top 3 paid generously given its results, size: analysis shows — (Reuters) - While the New York Times Co has shrunk by more than half in the past eight years, the compensation of the top three executives at the company has held steady. Measured against some key metrics …

Discussion: @nycjim, @michaelroston, Poynter, @edmundlee and @mccarthyryanj