Mediagazer: Social Anxiety: Should Artists Be Paying Journalists to Listen to Their Music? (Emilie Friedlander/The FADER)

8:35 AM ET, August 4, 2014

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Foreign Policy:

Hackers overlay TV programming with anti-Communist Party messages in Wenzhou, China — Exclusive: Hackers Infiltrate Chinese TV Station — is story has been updated. Friday evening television viewers in Wenzhou, a city in eastern Zhejiang province, saw their normal programming interrupted by anti-Communist Party messages.

Discussion: Singapore and International …, Bangkok Post, International Business Times, Telegraph, Slate and China Digital Times

Chris Smith / Digiday:

Trinity Mirror sees digital experimentation pay off — Add Trinity Mirror Group to the list of newspapers showing an affinity for digital. — The change in direction for one of Britain's biggest newspaper publishers effectively began in May 2013, when it launched the first series …

Discussion: martinbelam.com, @richwater, @mrjohncrowley, @digiday and @niemanlab

Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:

Four reasons why TV Everywhere isn't ready for prime time: A simple look at a complex problem — More than five years after its bold introduction, U.S. pay TV's highly complex multiscreen initiative, TV Everywhere, remains a work in progress. — There have been major breakthroughs recently …

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

Los Angeles Times CEO Eddy Hartenstein to resign Monday — Los Angeles Times publisher and CEO Eddy Hartenstein will step down this week in anticipation of a job on the board of the newly-formed Tribune Publishing, the paper reported Sunday afternoon. Hartenstein will accompany five others …

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Aki Tsuchiya / Guardian:

Television must mine bigger data or risk being Netflixed — Figures relating to consumer habit fuels decisions across a growing range of industries - and it's time for TV to catch up — In retail, Amazon and Tesco have blazed trails, mining insight from millions of consumers at scale …

Emilie Friedlander / The FADER:

Social Anxiety: Should Artists Be Paying Journalists to Listen to Their Music? — In her bi-weekly column, Social Anxiety, Emilie Friedlander peeks underneath the artifacts of contemporary culture to question what it all really means. — A couple weeks ago, a music journalist friend …

Discussion: @daryl_byrslf, @missinfo, @sterlewine and @jsdwrds

Craig Silverman:

After years of cuts, big Canadian media companies start strategizing in more sustainable ways — No more waffling, big Canadian media — This has in many ways been a horrible summer for big Canadian media. — CBC announced massive cuts. TorStar killed The Grid.

Discussion: @craigsilverman and @jayrosen_nyu

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

12 Years After Its Debut On Hacked Xboxes, XBMC Changes Its Name To Kodi — Back in 2002, a small group of developers whipped together an app that was meant to turn a hacked Xbox into a full-fledged media player, capable of playing all sorts of video and music content that the Xbox couldn't handle out of the box.

Discussion: XBMC, XBMC, PC Magazine, Engadget, Android Police, Lifehacker, BetaNews, Gigaom and Softpedia News

David Cohn / Medium:

There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist — There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist — Is anyone else tired of pointless journalist on journalist attacks? They persist because of the labels/divisions we create amongst ourselves.

Discussion: @digidave

New Orleans Times-Picayune:

During football season New Orleans Times-Picayune will print bonus Saturday and Monday papers — The Times-Picayune will home-deliver bonus Saturday and Monday newspapers to three-day subscribers during the fall — To our readers: — As the fall football season and holiday shopping season swing …

Discussion: @jkrolldigital, @jeffamy and John Kroll Digital

Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:

Media People: Q&A With Time Inc.'s Norman Pearlstine — Norman Pearlstine, 72, is executive vice president and chief content officer of Time Inc., where he is charged with the development of new content experiences, consumer products and lines of business across the company's titles.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:

Times Of Israel Publishes Op-Ed About ‘When Genocide Is Permissible’, Then Deletes It — The Times of Israel published, and then deleted, a piece Friday by a blogger suggesting that genocide was a “permissible” way to solve the conflict in the Middle East.