Mediagazer: Byliner gone bad and the business of longform journalism on the web (Laura Hazard Owen/Gigaom)

10:00 AM ET, July 5, 2014

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The EU's Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google's Making It Worse — “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU's Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google's attempt to meet new obligations under it.

Discussion: Guardian, The Next Web, @harrymccracken, @martinsfp, Reporters Without Borders, Softpedia News and BBC News

Jodie Ginsberg / Index on Censorship:

Right to be forgotten: A poor ruling, clumsily implemented — When Europe's highest court ruled in May that individuals had a ‘right to be forgotten’ many were quick to hail this as a victory for privacy. ‘Private’ individuals would now be able to ask search engines to remove links …

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The EU's “right to be forgotten” is a bad idea, and Google is handling it exactly the right way

Discussion: @gigaom, Softpedia News, Guardian, @shanedingman, @anglobeat, filmindustrynetwork.biz and @ksablan

Reuters:
Google reverses decision, restores several links to Guardian stories after publisher protests

Discussion: New York Times, TechCrunch, RT, @dannysullivan, VentureBeat, @adrianweckler, @mathewi, @xor, @diodesign, @dannysullivan, BGR, @jledbetter, Guardian and Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones — Sentencing of former News of the World executives over phone hacking shows no one is above the law, says David Cameron — The disgraced former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months for plotting …

Discussion: @courtnewsuk, BBC, @michaelwhite, DW.DE, Hollywood Reporter, The Irish Times, UK - The Huffington Post, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Independent, Daily Express, Mirror.co.uk, @davidleigh3, New York Times and Latest

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
More News of the World staff may face phone-hacking charges

Discussion: @themurdochtimes

Press Gazette:
Mr Justice Saunders' phone-hacking trial sentencing remarks in full

Discussion: @pressgazette, Variety, Global News, Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Agence France-Presse, expressandstar.com, NDTV News, MarketWatch, The Drum and ABC

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Byliner gone bad and the business of longform journalism on the web — On Christmas Eve Day in 2012, I sat in a Starbucks and wrote an enthusiastic post about why it had been the year of the e-single. E-singles — works of journalism between 3,000 to 15,000 words, usually nonfiction and sold …

Discussion: @sarahw and @agwieckowski

Noor Mattar / Global Voices:

Bahraini Satirist Blogger Takrooz Arrested — The Bahrain Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of yet another netizen, who reportedly faces accusations of “inciting hatred against the regime.” — The satirist mirco-blogger, nicknamed Takrooz, was arrested at the Bahrain International Airport …

Discussion: GULF DAILY NEWS

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez / Foreign Policy:

Sharing the Pain: A Cuban and a Venezuelan Compare Notes

Yasha Levine / PandoDaily:

The Fog of Twitter: Ukraine's civil war and the limits of social news gathering — Just in case you missed it, there's a real f**king civil war raging in Eastern Ukraine. On July 2, a day after newly elected billionaire President Petro Poroshenko called off a ceasefire …

Discussion: @yashalevine

Maria Antonova / Agence France-Presse:

Russian parliament passes bill requiring cloud services to store citizens' data on servers in Russia by September 2016 — Russian lawmakers pass new bill restricting Internet — Moscow (AFP) - Russia's parliament passed a bill on Friday requiring Internet companies to store Russians' personal data inside …

Discussion: @godlypghdad, The Verge, Reuters, Global Voices, The Voice of Russia, News, ITAR-TASS and TechCrunch

Guardian:

Lebedevs pump almost £100m into Independent titles and Standard — Accounts give strong warning over newspapers' dependence on funding by father and son media magnates — Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev bought the Evening Standard in 2009 for £1, when the paper was losing money.

Associated Press:

Myanmar journalist freed after sentence reduced — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A journalist and his assistant who were imprisoned for filming inside a government office were freed Friday after an appeals court reduced their sentences from one year to three months.

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

Case study: building and rolling out Presto, Gannett's CMS for TV and newspaper sites and apps — Case Study: Gannett's monumental task — A content management system for all — In 2011, Gannett Co.owned more than a hundred newspapers and television stations - each with its own website.

Corina Pons / Businessweek:

Venezuelan Newspaper El Universal Sold to Undisclosed Buyer — Caracas-based newspaper El Universal, which has been criticized by President Nicolas Maduro for its editorial line, has been sold. — “The sale has taken place, but we're not allowed to say who the new owner is for now in order …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and New York Times