Mediagazer: More products, better treatment: How and why the Financial Times built a digital FT Weekend (Jasper Jackson/TheMediaBriefing)

4:20 PM ET, July 22, 2014

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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 …

Discussion: @jswatz, @lpolgreen, Pressing Issues, @jennydeluxe, @deanpwright, @sulliview, @abarnardnyt and Weekly Standard

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
NY Times Exec Editor Defends Jarring Front-Page Photo of MH17 Victim

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Al Jazeera English:

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

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John Robinson / Media, disrupted:

Another Buffett paper plans paywall; ad inserts make print subscriptions cheaper than digital — Paying for the paywall at the News & Record — Updated — My hometown newspaper and former employer, the News & Record, is introducing a paywall. Ever since Warren Buffett bought the paper, we knew it was coming.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @johnrobinson and @jeffjarvis

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Nieman Storyboard, Poynter, Washington Post, The New York Observer and @wapothing

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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Kat Stoeffel / New York Magazine:

Some women's mags get serious, highlighting powerful public figures without belittling fashion — Finally, Serious Women Are Standing Up for Fashion Magazines — Women who achieve lofty positions in politics or business often find themselves facing a particular (and predictably brutal) publicity cycle.

Discussion: Gawker, Politico, @bcgoyette, @nawmba and Washington Post

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.

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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

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Croatian media in crisis as banks take control of ailing publishers — The media industry in Croatia is in a fragile condition due to its indebtedness, reports FollowTheMedia. It points out that banks, as chief creditors, now control two major companies. — Some 90% of Europapress Holdings …

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Quartz, Guardian, The Verge and @toddsteinict

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

More products, better treatment: How and why the Financial Times built a digital FT Weekend — You've built one of the handful of successful digital news subscription businesses around, but how do you keep growing? — The FT's launch of a digital FT Weekend section of its app earlier …

Discussion: @kgeriksson and @emilyjg

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Right to be forgotten’: Publishers rebel against Google's hidden results — Local news sites in the UK are publicising the fact that links are being hidden from the search engine - and attracting thousands of page views to the original stories as a result — Credit: By Carlos Luna on Flickr.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

FoxNews.com falls, USAToday.com rises in consumer satisfaction survey — Fox News' website dropped 7 percent in American Customer Satisfaction Index's annual survey of consumer satisfaction, while USA Today's rose by 4 percent. — It's the first time in five years that …

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