Top News:
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, Gawker, VentureBeat, Variety, reddit, TMZ.com, The Epoch Times, The Inquisitr News, Scallywag and Vagabond, TIME, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Mashable, @neetzan, @swiftonsecurity, metamedia, @carnage4life, @neetzan, @neetzan and Re/code
Al Jazeera PR:
Al Jazeera Arabic retracts an article suggesting that beheadings of US journalists were staged — Statement: Al Jazeera Arabic retracts US journalists article — Al Jazeera Arabic, the sister channel of Al Jazeera English, has retracted an article from its website which suggested …
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@mlcalderone, @chrismdwyer, @jenanmoussa, @moneyries and @patrickosgood
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 …
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 …
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Storify, On The Media, Medium, Hero Complex, Overland literary journal, @monkbent, @thequinnspiracy, @thequinnspiracy, @searls, Paste, Motherboard, Kotaku, Polygon, The Independent, Examiner and TIME
Deadline:
Raycom-DirecTV Standoff Ends With Deal; Service Restored For 43 Stations — Just in time for today's season-opening NFL games, Raycom Media and DirecTV settled their fee dispute with a new deal that puts 43 broadcast stations back on the satcaster's service. The two sides did not disclose terms of the deal.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Inside Storyful's revamped newswire service — The social newswire recently relaunched its dashboard aimed at helping journalists discover multimedia, stories, updates and tweets around news — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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@niemanlab
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
Discussion:
@jkainja
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
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 …
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@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.
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@edbott, @tomgara, @mathewi, @mariabustillos, @pareene, @noahshachtman, @markarms, @pkafka, @seanmcelwee, @ceodonovan, @malsaafin, @regan_hofmann, @chaykak and @poniewozik
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?
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@jeremymbarr, @sennettreport and @niemanlab