Mediagazer: College Newspaper Drops Print, First to Operate Primarily on Publishing Platform Medium (Dan Reimold/College Media Matters)

3:10 AM ET, September 17, 2014

Top News:

College Newspaper Drops Print, First to Operate Primarily on Publishing Platform Medium — Medium now has Substance. The popular publishing platform recently started hosting Substance, a new student publication at Mt. San Antonio College that doubles as a totally reinvented version of The Mountaineer campus newspaper.

Discussion: @journostuff, @waxpancake and @ronreason

Our Bad Media:

Fareed Zakaria Never Stopped Plagiarizing: How Dozens Of Episodes Of His CNN Show Ripped Others Off — Earlier this year, a certain CNN employee specializing in international news was caught red-handed plagiarizing dozens of instances of reporting. What did the network do?

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter, @over_rated, The Daily Caller, @eliasisquith, Politico, Poynter, @mtracey, @jackshafer, @mobute, @coalsonr, @mtaibbi, @mtaibbi, @aburnspolitico, @alexweprin, @joshsternberg and @jeremyduns

Capital New York:

The 60-second interview: Tom Gara, incoming deputy business editor, Buzzfeed — CAPITAL: So, the big news is that you're leaving The Wall Street Journal and joining Buzzfeed as deputy editor of its business vertical. What attracted you to Buzzfeed? Was this an opportunity that you pursued, or one that was brought to you?

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Nearly 40 percent of African-Americans think news does not portray them accurately — 38 percent of African-Americans believe “the news they consume does not at all accurately portray their community or does so just slightly,” a new report from the Associated Press-NORC Center …

Discussion: American Press Institute and Mediaite

New York Times:

Hollywood's Old-Time Star Makers Are Swooping In on YouTube's Party — LOS ANGELES — A few months ago, CBS Films wanted Bethany Mota, an 18-year-old video blogger, to make a cameo appearance in the movie “The Duff” and tell her 7.2 million YouTube followers about the experience.

Discussion: @peterlattman

NetNewsCheck Latest:

Journalism organizations file comments with FCC supporting net neutrality — Journalism, News Groups Back Open Internet — The Newspaper Association of America, American Society of News Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia …

Discussion: @dangillmor

Andy McDonald / Digital TV Europe:

Netflix goes live in Germany, partners with Deutsche Telekom — Netflix has gone live today in Germany and has signed a distribution partnership with Deutsche Telekom in the latest leg of its European expansion. — Under the terms of the partnership deal, Netflix's app will be available …

Discussion: CNET, DW.DE, ValueWalk and The Next Web

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: Forbes, FishbowlNY and MediaWire Daily

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Dean Baquet, the NYT's Executive Editor, on Jill Abramson, Race, Surviving Cancer—and TMZ Envy — The first months of Dean Baquet's editorship of The New York Times have been dramatic. Here he talks about the departure of his predecessor, punching walls, and why assigning reporters to warzones keeps him ‘most awake at night.’

Discussion: @nytfridge, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @sampjacobs, @thelloydgrove, @idiplomacy, @mathewi, The New York Observer and The Newspaper Guild

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Comcast CEO “Cautiously Optimistic” on Approval for Time Warner Cable Acquisition — “The process is underway in earnest and we've got many states and local communities to already approve of the transfer,” the exec stated on Tuesday — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on Tuesday said he was …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Orlando Sentinel and Variety

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Gawker signs 15-year lease on new office, signaling Nick Denton's ambitions for his empire — Nick Denton Says Gawker Media Is Booming, Moving — And Fighting the Good Fight — Remember when Gawker was a single site dedicated to skewering New York's media elite? — That was a long time ago!

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Hated podcast troll wins $1.3M patent verdict from CBS, but may soon be dead all the same — One of the standard bearers of America's broken system — a podcast troll that never made a podcast — has proved depressingly tenacious. Despite winning another jury verdict, the troll's days may be numbered.

Discussion: Electronista and Boing Boing