Mediagazer: Forbes strategy: terrible for journalism and the public, decent for the bottom line (Ryan Chittum/Columbia Journalism Review)

1:20 PM ET, July 22, 2014

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Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Gunshots have been fired into Al Jazeera's bureau …

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Ian Black / Guardian:

Al-Jazeera Gaza offices evacuated after direct hit by Israeli fire — Israel denies deliberate targeting of TV station, but staff claim that ‘two very precise shots’ were fired — Israel's army has denied targeting the Gaza offices of al-Jazeera TV after the network's correspondents reported …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Heightens Wonk Wars With Storyline — NEW YORK — The Washington Post escalated the wonk wars Tuesday with the latest addition to the growing field of policy journalism. — The Post's new online vertical, Storyline, will cover policy topics through articles, videos and charts …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pew's Alan Murray will edit Fortune — Alan Murray will leave his post as the president of the Pew Research Center to become the new editor of Fortune, Fortune announced Tuesday. Current Fortune Editor Andy Serwer “is leaving Time Inc.,” the release says. Murray left The Wall Street Journal to run Pew in 2012.

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

‘Not the Time for Antiseptic Coverage’: Dean Baquet on Covering Violence Abroad — Although it resulted in protests from some readers, a photograph of a victim's body covered in clear plastic — the main image on Saturday's front page — was both important and “one of the most beautiful pictures …

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Michael Holden / Reuters:

Murdoch tabloid suspends ‘fake sheikh’ UK reporter — (Reuters) - Mazher Mahmood, a British journalist known for his undercover work posing as a “fake sheikh”, was suspended by Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper on Monday after the collapse of a celebrity trial in which he was a main witness.

Discussion: London Evening Standard, @dangillmor, UK - The Huffington Post and The Independent

Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:

Comcast Q2 profit beats estimates with $16.8B revenue, loses 144K video subscribers, adds 203K internet customers — Comcast profit beats estimates on internet subscriber growth — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit …

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Time.com's bounce rate down 15 percentage points since adopting continuous scroll — Three major news website redesigns this year look very different but have an important feature in common: articles that seamlessly transition to new content, without requiring readers to click or tap headlines and then wait for new pages to load.

Discussion: @newsu, Wall Street Journal, @miamabanta, @juliaryan and @chartbeat

Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:

Twitter suspends suspect pro-China accounts after request from Free Tibet advocacy group — Twitter Acts Quickly on Suspect Pro-China Accounts — Talk about prompt customer service. — Just hours after The New York Times posted an article about bogus Twitter accounts dedicated …

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Ronald Grover / Reuters:

A Fox-Time Warner deal would give Murdoch new heft in China — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy Time Warner would help the Twenty-First Century Fox chairman make larger inroads in China, a fast-growing market that media moguls are finding hard to crack.

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Time Warner board changes bylaws to block small group of shareholders from forcing Fox takeover vote

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Murdoch Not Likely To Raise Time Warner Bid Immediately, Source Says

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Craig Silverman:

Journalists shouldn't gloss over the fabrication and plagiarism at Mail Online — ... most of the stories on Daily Mail are just great stories you may not have seen anywhere else, they appeal to anyone anywhere. — That's a statement from Taylor Lorenz, the social media editor for MailOnline …

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BBC Worldwide chief receives £231,000 bonus despite fall in profits — Tim Davie says commercial division's revenues were ‘broadly flat’ if factors such as Lonely Planet sale are taken into account — The BBC Worldwide chief executive was paid a bonus of more than £230,000 last year …

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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:

The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …

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Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal:

Gannett Profit Rises 84% on Broadcasting Unit Growth — Gannett's Acquisition of Broadcaster Belo Corp. Nearly Doubled Television Portfolio — Gannett Co. said its second-quarter earnings rose 84% on a big boost from its broadcasting operations, which expanded with the media company's $1 …

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