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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%.
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TVNewser, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, @corbettreport, @motokorich, @zigmanfreud, US News, @brianstelter, BREITBART.COM and The Week
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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 …
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American Press Institute, FishbowlNY, Politico, @tbr1, @jasfly and Poynter
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Channel 4 News to use Snapchat and WhatsApp in #indyref coverage — Channel 4 News has set up accounts on the two platforms to send breaking news, analysis, and fun updates, and capture the “in the moment” feeling on the night of the vote — Credit: By Maurizio Pesce on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
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Lost Remote and @catalinacma
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Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How to teach news literacy when the government is watching — The news literacy movement reaches Vietnam, but not without difficulties — Two years ago, Vietnamese journalist and lecturer Huyen Nguyen went with some colleagues to a news literacy workshop in neighboring Cambodia after applying …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Journalists in Vietnam prevented from reporting on police brutality
Journalists in Vietnam prevented from reporting on police brutality
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hrw.org
Jason Lynch / Quartz:
Why TV time slots still matter for new shows — The fall season—TV's annual version of Thunderdome—is almost upon us. During the next month, the US broadcast networks will debut 20 new series they hope will connect with audiences (with three additional new shows premiering slightly later in the fall).
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
How Much Television Can the TV Biz — and Viewers — Handle?
How Much Television Can the TV Biz — and Viewers — Handle?
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@teelajbrown
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?
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NPR, International Business Times, @ding_jin, @timaeppel, @publicroad, @raju, The Rakyat Post, hngn.com, @wsj and @andrewlavallee
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.
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Forbes, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, @niemanlab, 10,000 Words, @noahchestnut and American Press Institute
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 …
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New York Times, @raju, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Author Interviews, Politico, FishbowlDC, O'Dwyer's Blog 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 …
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The Huffington Post, @floydwhaley, @cjchivers, The Nation, Khaama Press (KP) and @eckholm
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.
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@wsjcmo, @jayrosen_nyu and @lisamurphyto
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 …
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FishbowlNY, Mynextfone.co.uk … and MediaWire Daily
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 …
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Digiday and @niemanlab
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian brings newspaper comics back to life with The Last Saturday — The Guardian is giving new life to the traditional newspaper comic strip with The Last Saturday. Instead of Marmaduke or the ongoing exotic adventures of Mark Trail, The Last Saturday is a weekly graphic novella made to be read in print and online.
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Comics Alliance and kottke.org
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 …
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This is Money, The Motley Fool UK, RTTNews, @jallford, Financial Times and American Press Institute
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.
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@mjbroersma and Quartz
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
Satellite TV bill passes Senate committee after amendments including channel unbundling were dropped — STAVRA Bill Passes Senate Commerce — Amendment Falls a Senator's Rise to Support Passable Bill — With entangling amendments dropping like flies in deference to the retiring committee chairman …
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Radio & Television …, American Television Alliance, TVfreedom.org, Ars Technica and The Hill
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 …
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Marketing Land, Lost Remote, Facebook Media and Inside Facebook
Liam Corcoran / The Whip:
How sites like The Verge, Vox, Business Insider performed on Facebook and Twitter in August — How Different Sites Are Stacking Up On Facebook — We look at social engagement growth patterns from sites outside the top 25 publishers. — Every month, we see some new names on our Facebook publishers charts.
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@reckless and @ezraklein
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Washington Post reporter ‘facing interrogation,’ Iranian official says — A senior Iranian official said Wednesday that Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter detained in Tehran nearly two months ago, is being interrogated on unspecified charges by judicial authorities.
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@markberman, @jbaetz and @anupkaphle
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
Web-based TV production in LA has surged 353% from 2008 to 2013, filling traditional TV void — On Location Amazon is a rising star in Hollywood — Det. Harry Bosch walks down the drab, gray corridor of the Hollywood division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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@henrikbastin, @mpigott, @amazon_studios and @connellybooks
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
How a Nebraska newspaper kicked off a major prison sentencing scandal — The Omaha World-Herald found that hundreds of inmates were being released early — PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS — “Had the World-Herald not broken the story, nothing would have happened.” — So said Nebraska state …
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@cjr, @mattwynn, @redcloud_scribe, @coreyhutchins, @ryanpitts and @cjr