Top News:
David Carr / New York Times:
View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention — Ferguson, Missouri, was just a place — a working-class suburb of St. Louis — before an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by the police, before protests and looting erupted …
Discussion:
Guardian, The Dish, @ajecathturner, @sulliview, @moorehn, @fheinderyckx, @jackgillum, @juliebosman, @digiphile, @antderosa, @antoniofrench, @jswatz, bookforum.com, @laurenzcollins, @chrisdanforth, @lizsage_k, @timkarr, @nickbilton, @colettebrowne, @isaacfitzgerald, New Yorker, @martaruco, @davidc7, @liamstack, @tobyharnden, @markhalperin, @pbump, CBS St. Louis, The Newspaper Guild, The Drum and Re/code
RELATED:
Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
Ferguson Police Threaten to Shoot Reporter, Mace Chris Hayes — Ferguson police were caught on camera Sunday night threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another. At least two other journalists also claim they were arrested while following police orders.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, New York Times, Pew Research Center …, Talking Points Memo, @robertklemko, @robertklemko, Washington Post, Associated Press, @ryanavent, Mediaite, @michaellark66, @robertklemko, @robertklemko, @aurich, @sarahljaffe, @kathrynbruscobk, @joshuafoust, @haleybeemzler, @jonathanwpeters, Pressing Issues, @michaelarria, @neilmunshi, Jezebel and Politico
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers — Time Inc. has fallen on hard times. Would you believe that this once-proud magazine publishing empire is now explicitly rating its editorial employees based on how friendly their writing is to advertisers?
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, MediaWire Daily, Politico, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, @reformedbroker, @johncarvalhoau, @patrickklepek, @sportmediaprof, @sdkstl, @benlillie, @harrymccracken, @abeaujon, @heyfeifer, @lmoses, @claytravisbgid, @felixsalmon, @moorehn, @tyduffy, @hiattb, @kairyssdal, The Huffington Post, @mikeisaac, @jasonrmcintyre, @strobist and The Stranger …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith: 'We didn't fully think through' the removal of old posts — Several months ago, roughly half a dozen early BuzzFeed writers were told to go back through their pre-2012 work and decide what they wanted to save. Anything they didn't want to keep or update should be removed from the site, they were told.
Discussion:
Quartz, @abeaujon, Guardian and TechCrunch
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
NYT's James Risen on Obama: “He's the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation” — Where's the Justice at Justice? — WASHINGTON — JIM RISEN is gruff. — The tall slab of a reporter looks like someone who could have played an Irish Marine sergeant in an old World War II movie.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Talking New Media, @roncharles, Guardian, The Huffington Post and The Daily Caller
Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Online music videos to carry age rating from October, says David Cameron — PM announces pilot to protect children from graphic content, saying rules for online videos should be in line with content bought offline — Online music videos will carry an age classification from October as part …
Discussion:
Contactmusic.com, The Independent, BBC, Digital Spy, Wired.co.uk, Music Week, The Drum, Telegraph, Daily Mail and NME
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
118 Years Ago, The New York Times Crowdsourced a New Motto — Though it may seem like a product of the Internet, crowdsourcing has been around for ages. — Take, for example, an experiment run by The New York Times in 1896, when the newspaper decided it was time to replace its famous motto, “All the News That's Fit to Print.”
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and @adriennelaf
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Scripps group developing new digital businesses like a severe weather app, original news shows — Inside Scripps' Entrepreneurial A-Team — E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne says he's “never seen real R&D units work,” so he created the Digital Solutions Group, a unit directly tasked …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Not all great writers are good editors: why journalism's 2-step career path is problematic — Against Editors — In the writing world, there is a hierarchy. The writers are on the bottom. Above them are editors, who tell the writers what to change. This is backwards.
Discussion:
@timamolloy
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Anthony Bourdain and VICE Each Take Home Outstanding Informational Series Emmy — In a rare occurrence, there were two winners for Outstanding Informational Series at last night's Creative Arts Emmy awards. — CNN's Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown was honored for the second straight year.
Press Association:
South Yorkshire police says BBC violated own editorial guidelines in Cliff Richard case — Cliff Richard case: South Yorkshire police complain to the BBC — Force accuses the corporation of breaching its editorial guidelines and failing to clear police of leaking quickly enough
Discussion:
Guardian, The Independent, Metro.co.uk, BBC, The Independent, TheAustralian, Daily Mail, The Drum and Latest News & Headlines
Jack Shafer:
If you must quote anonymous sources, make sure they say something! — A decade ago, both the Washington Post and the New York Times conceded that they had lost control of the use of anonymous sources in their pages and each set up new guidelines to police the practice.
Discussion:
New York Times, The Dish, @_biancah, @dcabo, @ahmed and @mlcalderone
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
