Mediagazer: Andy Coulson eligible for move from Belmarsh prison (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

8:45 AM ET, August 15, 2014

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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.

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New York Times:

Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions — Left, Whitney Curtis for The New York Times; right, Bill Hudson, via Associated Press — Danny Lyon, one of the photographers whose work came to define the civil rights upheaval in the South in the 1960s …

Discussion: Philadelphia 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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David Holmes / PandoDaily:

If Twitter implements a Facebook-style algorithm, you may not hear about the next Ferguson — Like many across the country, I've been closely following the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, allegedly at the hands of an white cop.

Discussion: Medium, @sarahcuda, @nrmehta, @jennatar, @steveo772, TechCrunch, @tonyromm and SocialTimes

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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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 …

Mike Williams / BBC:

Premier League warns posting videos of goals online breaks copyright laws — Premier League warns about posting goal videos online — The Premier League has told Newsbeat they're going to clamp down on fans posting unofficial videos of goals online. — Thousands of goal Vines were posted on social media during the World Cup.

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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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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Don't give up on the advertising model - make it better

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon Continues Its Higher Ed Book Sales March At Purdue, Offers Staffed On-Campus Pickup — Amazon debuted a program that seemed both inevitable and unthinkable earlier this year, depending on your perspective, when it teamed with UC Davis for a unique school-specific storefront that provided …

Discussion: GalleyCat

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Andy Coulson eligible for move from Belmarsh prison — Ex-News of the World editor classified as posing no risk to society, clearing way for transfer from high-security institution — Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former director of communications, looks set to be moved …

Discussion: mUmBRELLA

Amanda Meade / Guardian:

Australian ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Managing Director Mark Scott — ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Mark Scott — Managing director says ‘significant decisions’ on funding priorities will follow once Canberra makes budget clear

Discussion: mUmBRELLA and ABC

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: @craigsj, @robinhardwick, @blacknerdjade, @bigcityjames, @rantingowl, @mf_greatest, Salon, @snipy, @aschweig, Gawker and Mediaite

Hollywood Reporter:

Xbox Shops Entertainment Studio to Warner Bros. — Microsoft's TV production arm might not be gone for good — Microsoft may have decided to shutter its nascent Xbox Entertainment Studios but it's not necessarily game over for the Santa Monica studio. — Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter …

Discussion: The Verge, Windows Phone Central and Polygon

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 …