Mediagazer: Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital (Ben Sisario/New York Times)

12:30 PM ET, September 16, 2014

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Forbes sale to Hong Kong investors is official: family retains 20%, Elevation is bought out — Deal for Forbes finalized — The Asian investors who are taking over a majority stake in Forbes Media finalized the deal last Friday, officially ending 97 years of family control …

Discussion: The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, Forbes and MediaWire Daily

Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:

For James Foley's Family, U.S. Policy Offered No Hope — The email appeared in Michael Foley's inbox a year after his brother James disappeared on a reporting trip in northern Syria. It made clear that the people holding him wanted one thing above all else: money.

Discussion: Mother Jones, @pamelapaulnyt, @andylancaster, @pdanahar, @csstewart, @katz, @lrozen and The Newspaper Guild

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

BBC News launches account on instant messenger app Line — BBC News has launched an account on instant messaging app Line today, the latest in a series of experiments with content distribution through chat apps. BBC's Line account is its first international news channel inside a chat app …

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Roku Surpasses 10M Players Sold In U.S. — Up From 8 Million U.S. Shipments In January — Roku continues to keep its international sales numbers under wraps, but the OTT video specialist announced Tuesday that it has surpassed sales of 10 million players in the U.S.

Discussion: The Official Roku Blog, Home Media Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, Fast Company, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, The Next Web, Re/code and Gigaom

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Advice for newspaper editors: Pay attention to BuzzFeed — A group of legacy media executives was told on Monday that it has a lot to learn from the likes of BuzzFeed. “You may not approve of their editorial content,” said Amy Webb, CEO of Webbmedia Group. “But you must learn from their digital strategy.”

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital — When it was introduced by Clear Channel Communications in 2008, the iHeartRadio app had a humble job as an online outlet for the radio giant's 800-plus stations. — Now iHeartRadio has become such a central part …

Discussion: AdAge and @cnymediacritic

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Like it or not, native advertising is squarely inside the big news tent — “There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. You might think that the public would resent this trick …

Discussion: @raju, @nit_set, @niemanlab, @awuti, @dgaddy_star, @mathewi and Poynter

Agence France-Presse:

French daily Liberation to trim a third of its workforce — Paris (AFP) - Left-leaning French newspaper Liberation said Monday it was slashing about a third of its workforce to “save” the daily founded by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The 93 jobs concern those on permanent and part …

Discussion: @mathewi, Guardian and english.rfi.fr

Aimee Hamilton / Index on Censorship:

Application filed with ECHR to protect UK investigative journalism from surveillance — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) filed an application on Friday with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg challenging current UK legislation on mass surveillance and its threat to journalism.

Discussion: The Bureau of Investigative …, @georgeprof, @raoldroyd, @paulbradshaw, @indexcensorship, @tbij, Inquirer, RT, Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative … and The Drum

Mario R. García / Garcia Media:

Financial Times: a classic redesign for the digital age — From time to time a newspaper redesign is announced that gets everyone on alert mode. Such is the case with the redesign unveiled today by the Financial Times. Let's take a look at the centerpieces of this project: the new fonts …

Discussion: Guardian, Quartz, Guardian, @mathewi, Design Week, MediaPost, @drmariorgarcia, The Drum, News & Tech, Mumbrella Asia, TheMediaBriefing and BBC

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Report predicts newspaper revenue growth in 2015 - but not in the UK — The revenue decline for the newspaper industry will end next year, according to the latest global entertainment and media outlook report by PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC). — It forecasts that newspaper revenue will start …

Discussion: Poynter, @pwcadvisory and @johnmcquaid

News UK:

News UK Completes Move from Wapping to new London Bridge HQ — ‘News Building’ officially opened by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. — The completion of the move of News UK to the News Building at London Bridge was marked today with its official opening by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Discussion: Guardian, @helen_truchla, @raju, @raju, @nravitz and @raju

Patrick Frater / Variety:

China's Huayi Brothers to Launch U.S. Subsidiary (EXCLUSIVE) — HONG KONG - China's Huayi Brothers Media, which recently ditched plans to invest in Jeff Robinov's Studio 8 company, has instead announced plans to set up its own U.S. outfit. — Huayi, which is China's leading private sector film conglomerate …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter