Mediagazer: Independent editor Amol Rajan: 'There's nothing unclear about it, the future's digital' (William Turvill/Press Gazette)

12:55 PM ET, September 17, 2014

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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:

Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low — Six-percentage-point drops in trust among Democrats and Republicans — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After registering slightly higher trust last year, Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report “the news fully, accurately, and fairly” has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Poynter, Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, @motokorich and US News

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Journalism curator Longform launching first iPhone app — Longform.org, which spotlights quality non-fiction writing on the Web, is rolling out its first app for iPhones on Wednesday, timed to the release of Apple's iOS 8 operating system. — The journalism curator's debut app launched in 2012, but was available only on iPads.

Discussion: Forbes, Newsweek, 10,000 Words, @niemanlab, @noahchestnut and American Press Institute

Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:

‘Poop & Pooches,’ a Magazine Devoted to Dog-Haters, Is a Hit in Germany — Biting Satire Makes Readers Sit Up, Roll Over, Beg — HAMBURG—In 1992, four journalists sat at a local pub and played a drunken game: What's the most absurd magazine title you can come up with?

Discussion: NPR, International Business Times, hngn.com, The Rakyat Post, @wsj, @timaeppel, @publicroad, @andrewlavallee, @raju and @ding_jin

The New Republic:

Chris Hughes steps down as Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic, former Yahoo News GM Guy Vidra named CEO — The New Republic names Guy Vidra, General Manager of Yahoo News, as Chief Executive Officer — Washington, DC and New York, NY (September 17, 2014) - The New Republic today announced …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Author Interviews and @mlcalderone

Rod Nordland / New York Times:

In Brutal Year for News Media in Afghanistan, a 7th Journalist Is Killed — KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan woman has become the seventh journalist killed in Afghanistan so far this year, an Afghan media group said Wednesday, adding to a toll that has already made 2014 by far the deadliest year …

Discussion: @eckholm, @floydwhaley, The Nation and Khaama Press (KP)

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Mail Online's ad revenues rise nearly 50% year on year — Website's success offsets continuing decline in print advertising at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday — Mail Online: total ad revenues of £53m in the 11 months to the end of August — Mail Online's advertising revenues increased …

Discussion: The Motley Fool UK, @jallford, RTTNews, Financial Times and American Press Institute

Jordan Zakarin / The Wrap:

Arianna Huffington on HuffPost's Upcoming Middle East Edition, Doc Ambitions and 115 Million Unique Visitors — Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington emailed her entire staff Monday with an important message: HuffPost had hit 115 million unique visitors on ComScore for the month of August …

Discussion: Digiday and @niemanlab

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Parade magazine about to be sold to Athlon Media — Parade magazine, the 73-year- old Sunday magazine owned by the Newhouse family's Advance Publications for the past 38 years, is about to be sold to Athlon Media, Media Ink has learned. — Athlon, whose American Profile is the No. 3 player …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily and Mynextfone.co.uk …

Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:

66% black and 75% Hispanic news consumers doubt media reports about their communities — BLACKS, HISPANICS HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT MEDIA ACCURACY — WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don't fully trust the media to portray …

Discussion: American Press Institute, FishbowlNY, Politico, @tbr1, @jasfly and Poynter

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

How linking to knowledge can help attract a solvent audience for news publishers — How Linking to Knowledge Could Boost News Media — A key way to differentiate value-added news from commodity contents is to rework the notion of linking. Thanks to semantics and APIs, we could move from dumb links to knowledge linking.

Discussion: @mjbroersma

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Facebook launches a new ‘best of’ page for media companies — Facebook has launched a new “Facebook Media” page today that's intended to show off media companies and public figures that use the social service most effectively. — The move shows that Facebook definitely puts value …

Discussion: Marketing Land, Facebook Media and Inside Facebook

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Sky Deutschland Tells Investors to Reject BSkyB Offer — LONDON — The European expansion plans of the pay-television giant British Sky Broadcasting Group have hit a snag. — The executive board of Sky Deutschland told investors on Wednesday to reject BSkyB's multi-billion dollar takeover approach for the German broadcaster.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, London Evening Standard, Broadband TV News, Advanced Television, City A.M., Guardian and Wall Street Journal

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

With New Ad Measure, The Economist Emphasizes Quality Over Quantity — The Economist is rolling out new set of audience measurements for advertisers on its mobile applications and website, hoping to lure more digital ad dollars by highlighting how much time readers spend with its content.

Discussion: @wsjcmo and @jayrosen_nyu

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

With a brand new website, The Baffler seeks the audience and impact it missed the first time around. — John Summers was working at Harvard in 2012 when he decided to relaunch The Baffler. The Baffler was a zine founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White at the University of Virginia …

Discussion: @thebafflermag and @petersterne

Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:

Netflix secures Australian streaming rights to Batman prequel series ‘Gotham’ — Providing the biggest hint yet that Netflix is preparing to launch locally, the US-based company has secured exclusive Australian subscription video on-demand rights to the highly anticipated superhero television series Gotham.

Discussion: Pedestrian TV, CraveOnline and Gizmodo Australia

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

InboundWriter helps editors find clickable story ideas — InboundWriter helps editors find clickable story ideas — Usually writers and editors depend on their wealth of knowledge and instincts when it comes to picking what to write about. InboundWriter, however, believes that the fine art …

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Independent editor Amol Rajan: 'There's nothing unclear about it, the future's digital' — 'There's nothing unclear about it: the future's digital' — Free model is working for Independent website but it is “under constant review and it might be that in a year, or a couple of years, we decide to move to a different model'

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

At newspapers, putting the squeeze on an elite subscriber corps — On a Wednesday evening in early September, New York Times media columnist David Carr was interviewing executive editor Dean Baquet on the 15th floor of the newspaper's Eighth Avenue headquarters.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music — TOKYO — Around the world, the music business has shifted toward downloads and streaming. But in Japan, the compact disc is still king. — On a drizzly Sunday afternoon recently, Tower Records' nine-level flagship store here was packed with customers like Kimiaki Koinuma.

Discussion: The Verge and TelecomTV

J. Max Robins / Forbes:

The Bitter Southerner makes money a year in with in-depth stories, a unique Southern sensibility, and no ads — ‘The Bitter Southerner’ Might Be The ‘Vice’ of the South — Last month, the transcendent digital publication “The Bitter Southerner” celebrated its first birthday.