Mediagazer: Gannett to Separate Broadcasting, Publishing Businesses Via Spin-Off (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

1:00 PM ET, August 5, 2014

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Alexa Davis / Forbes:

After Breakup, Gannett's Print and Broadcast Assets May Be Ripe For The Picking — Gannett Tuesday became the latest media company to separate its publishing assets, which include USA Today, from broadcast and digital businesses. The move is the latest in a string of similar actions …

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Gannett to Separate Broadcasting, Publishing Businesses Via Spin-Off — The move is mindful of Tribune's split, which was completed late Monday. — Gannett Co. said Tuesday it would create two publicly traded companies by separating its broadcasting and digital businesses from its publishing operation.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

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Frank Rose / Wired:

How the Smartphone Ushered In a Golden Age of Journalism — When I first — arrived in New York, some time back in the last century, I gazed in awe and fascination at subway riders reading The New York Times. Thanks to a precise and universally adopted method of folding the paper …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Reporter Addresses Israeli Censorship On Soldier Story — NEW YORK — Jodi Rudoren, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, addressed the paper's decision Friday to withhold a biographical detail about an Israeli soldier at the Israeli military's request.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Russian state media watchdog tells BBC to remove online interview with Siberian artist and activist — Russia's state media watchdog has asked BBC Russian to remove an online interview with a Siberian artist and activist, the corporation has said. — The interview with Artem Loskutov …

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Time Warner Rebuff of Fox May Not Just Be Negotiating Ploy — Rupert Murdoch tends to finish what he starts. So from the moment the news broke last month that Time Warner Inc. had rejected an $80 billion bid by Mr. Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, the assumption on Wall Street and in the media world …

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Washington Post has record traffic month after adding digital staff — is it the Bezos effect? — The Washington Post saw record traffic to its website in July, and editor-in-chief Marty Baron credits the paper's new digital projects and the addition of about 60 new editorial staff for the growth

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Josh Schwartz / Chartbeat Blog:

Traffic to Chartbeat customers fell 3% during Facebook outage; mobile went 8.5% down; desktop went 3.5% up — Traffic During the Facebook Outage — As you've all but certainly heard, Facebook had a major outage midday on Friday. Overall traffic on news sites dropped by 3% …

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Gilad Lotan / Global Voices:

Analysis: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter serve as siloed propaganda engines for Gaza news — Israel, Gaza, War & Data - The Art of Personalizing Propaganda — Instagram co-tag graph, highlighting three distinct topical communities: 1) pro-Israeli (Orange), 2) pro-Palestinian (Yellow), and 3) Muslim (Pink).

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Norman Solomon / Columbia Journalism Review:

Journalism groups rally around a petition supporting James Risen — The Supreme Court ruled against the NYT reporter, who is refusing to reveal sources — Ten months after the Committee to Protect Journalists issued its scathing report “The Obama Administration and the Press,” …