Mediagazer: Soon-to-be “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd brings reporter experience, passion for politics to a show battling low ratings (Politico)

12:40 AM ET, August 17, 2014

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Byron Tau / Politico:

Ferguson rioters harass, threaten reporters — FERGUSON, Missouri — Reporters trying to cover the renewed chaos in this town faced a new threat on Friday: the demonstrators themselves. — Print, video and photo-journalists were all repeatedly and aggressively threatened and harassed …

Discussion: @jtierney6 and @byrontau

Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:

NPR responds to Greenwald's criticism: error was made on deadline, “no intention to deceive” — Attacking NPR As A Shill For Government Intelligence — Glenn Greenwald has denounced an NPR story as an “indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit.” — Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Discussion: @cmuratori, @jayrosen_nyu, @andrewdfish and @the_intercept

Emily Steel / New York Times:

After first original TV series fall flat, Amazon leans away from data-driven creative approach — For Its New Shows, Amazon Adds Art to Its Data — LOS ANGELES — Joe Lewis, a television executive at Amazon, lies on his stomach on a rumpled bed. Jill Soloway, the Emmy-nominated writer and director …

Discussion: @emilysteel, @carr2n and @ronmwangaguhung

Andrea Noel / VICE News:

A Mexican Journalist Is Murdered After Reporting a Fugitive Police Chief's Alleged Criminal Ties — A Mexican journalist was shot and killed on Monday after accusing a local police chief of leading a criminal gang in the last article he published. He was at least the third reporter …

Discussion: Committee to Protect … and @niemanfdn

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases — The Internet may be losing the war against trolls. At the very least, it isn't winning. And unless social networks, media sites and governments come up with some innovative way of defeating online troublemakers, the digital world will never be free of the trolls' collective sway.

Discussion: BuzzMachine, @jeffjarvis, @dearsplenda, @saramorrison, Business Insider, Forbes, CNN and Engadget

Politico:

Soon-to-be “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd brings reporter experience, passion for politics to a show battling low ratings — A junkie comes to fix ‘Meet the Press’ — Three weeks from Sunday, Chuck Todd, the political obsessive with a knack for polling data and a love of …

Discussion: TVNewser, @jayrosen_nyu, New York Times, @davefeinman, @katie_glueck, Fox News and Washington Post

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

48 news orgs send letter protesting ‘lack of information’ in Ferguson — Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press — On Friday, 48 media organizations signed a letter to the Ferguson, Missouri chief of police, the St. Louis County chief of police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol …

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, Reporter's Committee …, Politico, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @poynter and FishbowlDC

Mónica Guzmán / GeekWire:

Seattle police asked citizens to watch what they tweet, raising free speech questions — The problem with the police's plea to ‘Tweet Smart’ — Considering this week's events in Ferguson, Missouri, isn't it smartest for the public to tweet more real-time police activity in some emergencies, not less?

Discussion: @geekwire, @moniguzman, Techdirt and Associated Press

Will Oremus / Slate:

Why a Young Writer Secretly Deleted Her Own BuzzFeed Post — As I wrote earlier, BuzzFeed has been taking heat for deleting thousands of old posts earlier this year without telling anyone. (Gawker's J.K. Trotter was the first to report on the purge.) The site's founder and CEO …

Discussion: Gigaom, @willoremus, @myersnews, @myersnews, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and SocialTimes

Bloomberg:

Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera Over $500 Million Current TV Deal — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore sued Al Jazeera, the satellite network controlled by the Qatari royal family, over a $500 million deal to purchase his network, Current TV, according to filing in state court in Wilmington, Delaware.

Discussion: Politico, TVNewser, The Corsair, Broadcasting & Cable, Latest News & Headlines, @feldmaniac, Top Digital Journal News, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, @rthompsonsun, @keitholbermann, @jacobgershman, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Selena Larson / ReadWrite:

Medium adds public follower and following lists to profile pages, catching users off guard — In Exposing Followers, Medium Fails Readers — If Medium wants to turn itself into a respectable publisher, it probably shouldn't behave like a social network.

Discussion: Medium, @txvoodoo and @counternotions, Thanks:@owenthomas

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals — Newspaper pulls recent articles intended to “keep alive” other stories that were removed from Google in the EU. — The Daily Telegraph's recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed …

Discussion: The Drum, @jeffjarvis and Telegraph