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Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Icahn takes 6.6 percent stake of Gannett, wants role in company's planned split — Carl Icahn places bet on Gannett — Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken 6.6% stake in Gannett, saying he wants a role in the company's planned split of its TV and newspaper divisions.
Discussion:
Deadline, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
“Meet the Press:” Gregory out, Todd in — NBC will name Chuck Todd the new host of “Meet the Press” as early as Thursday afternoon, according to people with direct knowledge of the network's plans. — The sources confirmed widespread speculation that David Gregory, the moderator …
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@davidgregory, New York Times, TVNewser, TVNewser, Talking Points Memo, Capital New York, The Wrap, Capital New York, Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Guardian, Variety, FishbowlDC, Politico, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, Daily Mail, @brianstelter, The Daily Caller, Broadcasting & Cable, @daveweigel, Inside TV and New York Magazine
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why Obama's statement on reporters' arrests in Ferguson is hypocritical — Obama defends reporters in Ferguson, but demands compliance from James Risen — In a news conference Thursday addressing the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown and resulting unrest in Ferguson, MO …
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Washington Post, Latest News & Headlines, Poynter, Mediaite, Gawker, @heytammybruce, @freedomofpress, @tonygorder, @meghabuda, Reporter's Committee … and CNN
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
How the absence of tweets led journalists to figure out that two reporters had been arrested — How social media freed reporters Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly from Ferguson police — When police in combat gear arrested two reporters last night in Ferguson, Mo., the journalists' first instinct was to tweet about it.
Rui Kaneya / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter faces jail time for scoop in gruesome murder case
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Freedom of the Press …, Guardian, Latest News & Headlines and Patch
Will Oremus / Slate:
Peretti: deleted BuzzFeed posts were created before company chose to become journalistic — One Viral Media Company That Isn't Evil, Just Misunderstood — Thirty-Nine Listicles Whose Sourcing Is Shaky at Best. — One Writer Fired for Plagiarism. — Four Thousand Old Posts That Mysteriously Disappeared.
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New York Magazine, Gawker, @mathewi, @mlcalderone, @clarajeffery, @timfernholz, @peretti, @jackshafer, @peretti, @craigsilverman, @craigsilverman and @seanmcelwee
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic Online:
Ad-supported web led to targeting and surveillance as a default; let's try again, with fees for service — The Internet's Original Sin — Ron Carlson's short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths.
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@sethmnookin, Engadget, @chx, @mgeist, @anildash, @skap5, @mccarthyryanj, @scottros, @adriennelaf, @acarvin, @dangillmor, @evgenymorozov, @mathewi, @pkedrosky, @emmaogreen and @medialab
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Don't give up on the advertising model - make it better
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Gigaom, @jeffjarvis and @jason_kint
John Herrman / The Awl:
How the influential Drudge Report covered police shooting and ensuing unrest in Ferguson, Mo. — Ferguson, Missouri, According to Drudge — “Today Matt Drudge can influence the news like Walter Cronkite did,” Mark Halperin said in a 2006 interview promoting his new book, cowritten with John Harris, who had not yet founded Politico.
Discussion:
BuzzFeed and The Daily Banter
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest
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Medium, niemanlab.org, ABC News, Washington Post, Latest News & Headlines, Poynter, Guardian, Media Nation, Vox, Quartz, CNN, The Huffington Post, Global Voices, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, The Wire, The Intercept, The Verge, @ryanjreilly, The Stranger …, Free Press Blog, Jezebel, Deadline, Politico, Gawker, The Wrap, @mateosfo, UPROXX, @pbump, Reuters, Pressing Issues, Vanity Fair, SPLICETODAY.com, Mediaite, @neetzan, @postbaron, Mashable, @washingtonpost, @fergusonunity, @nickconfessore, @buzzfeedandrew, The ToastThe Toast, @astroehlein, @sarahljaffe, @jonchesto, USA Today, New York Magazine, Daily Mail, @annfriedman, @therealfitz, @lukerussert, Committee to Protect …, @ezraklein, Media Law Prof Blog, The Raw Story, Hit & Run, @suzykhimm, The Week, abc11.com, @ron_fournier, The Newspaper Guild, @sophia_mjones, @jerometaylor, @abeaujon, @fraying, @qhardy, @fmanjoo and @benkuchera
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Police: Tear Gas Not Fired at Al Jazeera News Crew Intentionally (Video) — Raw video shows an Al Jazeera America news crew covering the Ferguson, Mo., protests being hit with tear gas. After they fled, a SWAT team pulled up to dismantle their equipment. — The footage has become …
Discussion:
KSDK-TV, Poynter, CNN, @jonswaine, The Huffington Post, Jezebel, @machallboyd, @jeremykohler, New York Times and @poniewozik
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Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
NBC selling African American news and politics site The Grio back to its founders — NBC News Selling TheGrio.com — First on TVNewser: NBC News is selling TheGrio.com back to its original owners, TVNewser has learned. — The African American news and politics site will be sold …
Discussion:
FishbowlDC
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Racist content forces Thought Catalog to put barriers between contributors and Twitter — There's no need to enumerate the breadth and variety of godawful content published by millennial angst engine Thought Catalog. The site's propensity for publishing garbage is so well known, they actually address it in the FAQs.
Discussion:
Salon, Gawker, @craigsj, @robinhardwick, @blacknerdjade, @bigcityjames, @mf_greatest and Mediaite
BBC:
Michael Jackson music video premiered on Twitter — Epic Records has premiered a video for a new Michael Jackson single on Twitter - a coup for the social network, which is more commonly used to provide links to others' material. — To promote the event, Twitter created a map showing …
Discussion:
The Twitter Blog, The Drum, Forbes and Marketing Pilgrim
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Head of Media Matters becomes chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington — Media Matters' David Brock expands empire — In a major power play that aligns liberal muscle more fully behind the Democratic Party — and Hillary Clinton — the self-described right-wing …
Discussion:
@brianjameswalsh, @michael_steel and @tparti
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