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Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:
#GamerGate explained: why the gaming world is fighting about the treatment of women and game journalism ethics — GamerGate: Here's why everybody in the video game world is fighting — Over the past several weeks, the online video game community has become ground zero for a series …
Discussion:
Storify, On The Media, Medium, Hero Complex, Overland literary journal, Kotaku, Examiner, Paste, @thequinnspiracy, @thequinnspiracy, Polygon, The Independent, Motherboard and TIME
Pamela Engel / Business Insider:
Reddit Just Banned The Subreddit Where People Were Posting The Celebrity Nude Images — The page that served as a centralized hub of leaked celebrity nude photos has finally been banned from Reddit. — Reddit said in a statement that the site “deplore[s] the theft of these images” …
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reddit, reddit, reddit, @neetzan, @swiftonsecurity, BuzzFeed, @carnage4life, @neetzan, Mashable and Re/code
Mike Allen / Politico:
Benny Johnson, former BuzzFeed editor fired for plagiarism, gets hired as National Review's social media director — BRUNCH EDITION - 59 days to midterms — BENNY JOHNSON's new job - OBAMA PUNTS ON IMMIGRATION — WENDY DAVIS discloses abortion of third daughter - JOE SCARBOROUGH signs NBC deal —CHRIS CHRISTIE is 52
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
News aggregator Blendle incorporates every major newspaper in Holland, reaches 100K users — How the ‘iTunes of journalism’ reached 100k users — Dutch news aggregator Blendle has signed up every newspaper and magazine in Holland, and is helping them to reach new and younger audiences
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Strategy Analytics study of 6k TV viewers finds only 18% watch TV and Twitter simultaneously — Heavy Twitter Focus Can Be a “Waste” for TV Industry, Study Finds — Only 33 percent of people are now traditional “couch potatoes” — Only 18 percent of people with Internet access follow TV shows …
Jim Romenesko:
Indiana University's newspaper partners with NYT to show its stories to students in NYT Now — Indiana Daily Student partners with NYT Now — Indiana University's Daily Student newspaper announced today that “we've joined forces with the talented developers of NYT Now to bring our readers …
Discussion:
Indiana Daily Student and @raju
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Inside the Toronto Star's $10 million niche print business — John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star, is the first to acknowledge that his strategy for the paper seems anachronistic. — Cruickshank talked the New York Times Syndicate into providing him a semi-custom weekly collection …
Discussion:
@sladurantaye
Alex Pareene / The Dish:
A Second Look At The Giant Garbage Pile That Is Online Media, 2014 — WARNING: This is a post, by a media professional, about the media. If you are a normal human being, you will not and definitely should not care, except inasmuch as it's part of a debate about whether or not we, the media, are failing you, the normal human being.
Discussion:
@tomgara, @mathewi, @mariabustillos, @pareene, @noahshachtman, @markarms, @pkafka, @seanmcelwee, @ceodonovan, @malsaafin, @regan_hofmann, @chaykak and @poniewozik
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Global media VP Katie Jacobs Stanton: Twitter is the “operating system” of news, not a competitor to newsrooms — Twitter Media Boss Katie Jacobs Stanton Wants More Partners in More Countries — Twitter has had plenty of challenges. Convincing media companies to work with it hasn't been one of them.
Discussion:
@antderosa, @digiphile, @vivian, @brie, @sdkstl, @sacca, @mathewi, @ralfonsi, @jayrosen_nyu and @sfiegerman
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Elizabeth Spiers, editorial director, Flavorwire (and Gawker founding editor) — CAPITAL: You've recently returned to personal blogging, as has your fellow former Gawkerite Lockhart Steele. Do you think there's a broader trend here?
Discussion:
@niemanlab, @jeremymbarr and @sennettreport
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
The L.A. Times will begin broadcasting original documentaries in mid-September — The L.A. Times made a move toward expanding its video strategy today — but not in digital video. The newspaper announced a broadcast deal with DIRECTV for a series of documentaries to be called Los Angeles Times Originals.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and LA Observed
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The new Cosmo: Love, sex, politics? — Cosmopolitan's website is making room for something new to the the legendary women's glossy: the midterm elections. — The magazine known for its celebrity covers, fashion tips and relationship advice is diving into politics on Monday with its #CosmoVotes campaign …
Discussion:
@nataliewsj, @elanazak and The Daily Caller
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