Top News:
Caroline Moss / Business Insider:
Twitter Won't Suspend NY Post And Daily News For Posting Grisly James Foley Covers — When the news of James Foley's beheading by jihadist group ISIS started to make headlines yesterday, there seemed to be a common plea: Don't tweet graphic images from the video showing the American photojournalist's gruesome death.
Discussion:
@neetzan, @alirosa, @sarahw, @hunterw and @socarolinesays
RELATED:
Siraj Datoo / BuzzFeed:
Twitter To Suspend Accounts Of Anyone Tweeting Graphic Images Of Photojournalist's Alleged Execution — A video emerged last night appearing to show photojournalist James Foley being beheaded by a member of ISIS. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced in a tweet on Wednesday morning …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, @jeffjarvis, Techdirt, @pottsmark, @moorehn, @vivian, @nervana_1, @jeffjarvis, Runnin' Scared and @jeffjarvis
Facebook:
A message from Jim's mom, Diane Foley — We have never been prouder of our son Jim. He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people. We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. Like Jim, they are innocents.
Discussion:
CNN, The Huffington Post, Committee to Protect …, NationalJournal.com, Gawker, Syria Deeply, USA Today, Guardian, @tomrisen, @pressfreedom, @ap_ken_thomas, @digiphile, Hollywood Life, @postbaron, @ke11yfoley, WAVE-TV, @uofnh, Business Insider, FishbowlNY, Politico, @ivadixit, The Wrap, @bklynmiddleton, New York Magazine, @sherylhugg, TheBlaze.com, @jecon, @monicagprieto, @nycjim, Associated Press, The Week, BBC, @bethanyheitman, @yahoonews and TechCrunch
Hadas Gold / Politico:
AP CEO: Foley murder a war crime — Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of The Associated Press, said Wednesday that ISIL's murder of photojournalist James Foley is an “international crime of war.” — “The Associated Press is outraged by the killing of James Foley and condemns the taking of any journalist's life.
Discussion:
GlobalPost, THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE, CNN and Media Nation
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
White House Knew of Recent ISIS Threat to Kill US Journalist — ISIS had recently threatened to kill U.S. journalist James Foley to avenge airstrikes the United States has conducted in Iraq, a senior U.S. official told ABC News. — The White House had been aware of the threat prior …
Discussion:
@bernicewbz, Mediaite, @brianstelter, ABC News, @johnnydollar01, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and The Huffington Post
James Ball / Guardian:
James Foley and the daily horrors of the internet: think hard before clicking — Outcry over footage of Foley's apparent beheading raises difficult questions about editorial ethics - and our own choices — With depressing frequency in this summer of diverse horrors, we hear tales …
Discussion:
New York Times, Guardian, @millie, @losowsky, @hazelpress, PandoDaily, @moorehn, @samirashackle, Mediaite, Business Insider and The Huffington Post
BBC:
Following spread of gruesome images of Jim Foley, Twitter users react with #ISISMediaBlackout — BBCtrending: ‘Share this instead’ say Twitter users rejecting graphic images of James Foley — BBC Trending — Images and videos of James Foley's killing have been circulating on social media, distressing many who see them.
Discussion:
@zahirj
Michael B Kelley / Business Insider:
Questions mount over how Jim Foley, believed to be held by Assad, was captured by ISIS
Discussion:
@juliemmoos, @justinjm1, @brettlogiurato, @kyleworton, @loveconcursall, @timmyconspiracy, Hollywood Life and New York Magazine
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo: Was Foley's killer a former Gitmo detainee?
Discussion:
Washington Post, @noahcrothman and NBC News
Shane Harris / Foreign Policy:
Social Media Companies Scramble to Block Terrorist Video of Journalist's Murder
Discussion:
Washington Post, @dickc, Gigaom, CNET, Mashable, @attackerman, @wexler, ThinkProgress, @policy, @mathewi, @leighh, The Drum, @heidifang, @zaidbenjamin, The FJP, @aakankshat and Talking Points Memo
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Al Jazeera America's problem: it's a cable operation built for a pre-digital age — Al Jazeera America struggles to get off the margins — A quality-first strategy faces huge hurdles — When Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news giant rolled out its massive new American affiliate one year ago …
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu
RELATED:
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Al Jazeera Says Al Gore's Claims of Fraud Are ‘Blatantly False’
Discussion:
TVNewser, Capital New York and Reuters
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp Australia leaked accounts show 1,000 jobs cut across mastheads — Major leak of confidential operating accounts reveal extent of losses with the Australian losing about $30m a year — The financial health of News Corp Australia's newspapers has been laid bare by a leak …
Discussion:
Crikey, Crikey, @chrismurphys, Sydney Morning Herald, mUmBRELLA, Crikey, @ivorytowerjourn and @peterjhinton
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Barnes & Noble and Samsung officially launch the $179 ‘Galaxy Tab 4 Nook’ — Barnes & Noble and Samsung today unveiled a new Nook-branded tablet at a press event in New York. The $179, 7-inch “Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook” is available today. — Speaking on stage at the event …
Discussion:
Gigaom, Media & Entertainment, Publishers Weekly, GalleyCat, Forbes, Softpedia News, ZDNet, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Medium plans to launch its digital magazine for music next month, edited by Jonathan Shecter, co-founder of The Source — Next Up on Medium's List: A Music Magazine — Medium, the startup led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is preparing its next foray into Web publishing: A digital magazine dedicated to stories about music.
Discussion:
PandoDaily, @olli101 and @mattdennewitz
Katie Zavadski / New York Magazine:
New York Times Reporter Ordered to Leave Afghanistan Over Election Story — New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg is in big trouble: A story he wrote covers some not-so-flattering aspects of recent Afghan elections. Yesterday, news broke that he was being barred from leaving the country …
Discussion:
Mediaite, New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, Guardian, Committee to Protect …, @mrosenbergnyt and New York Times
Dan Frommer / Quartz:
Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow — Many Twitter users have noticed that Twitter is now inserting tweets into their timelines that seemingly don't belong. This is not an accident. Twitter has updated its help document, “What's a Twitter timeline?”
John Herrman / The Awl:
NowThis bypasses websites, uses others' apps to publish news, including headlines in Snapchat — The Weird Near Future of News — NowThisNews was started a couple years ago as a “brand new video network built from scratch for people who get their news on mobile devices and through social streams.”
Discussion:
@mikeisaac, @beccabigwords, @katenocera, @kia_mak, @michelledean, @kevinroose, @eilenez, @jaredbkeller, @estherbreger, @pareene, @ryanj899 and Business Insider
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fareed Zakaria responds to plagiarism charges — On Tuesday, two anonymous Twitter users — @blippoblappo & @crushingbort — published a report citing 12 instances in which the journalist Fareed Zakaria appeared to have lifted passages wholesale from other authors.
Discussion:
The Buttry Diary, Our Bad Media, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
RELATED:
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 — 
