Mediagazer: Agence France-Presse won't accept freelance work from Syria, will decide on publishing ISIS images case by case (Michèle Léridon/AFP Correspondent/ behind …)

4:15 PM ET, September 18, 2014

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Susan Glasser named Editor of POLITICO — Susan Glasser, the editor of POLITICO Magazine, has been promoted to Editor of POLITICO, a new title that will give her “full authority” over the site's core coverage, magazine and Pro verticals, the company's leadership announced early Thursday morning.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, MediaWire Daily, @nycjim, @dylanbyers, @davidkenner, @kimkingsley, Politico, @davidmwessel, @markknoller, @hadas_gold, @diannaheitz, @mlcalderone and American Press Institute

BBC:

BBC team under attack in southern Russia — A BBC team has been attacked in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan. — They had gone to investigate reports of Russian servicemen being killed near the border with Ukraine. — The team's cameraman was beaten up and the camera smashed during the attack.

Discussion: Guardian, The Malay Mail Online, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Press Gazette, Wall Street Journal, Digital Spy and @peterhorrocks1

BBC:

BBC calls on Russian authorities to conduct investigation after attack on news crew — BBC News statement on intimidation in Russia — The BBC has today lodged a formal protest with the Russian authorities after a news team from our Moscow bureau was attacked in southern Russia whilst …

Discussion: @billbrowder, @peterhorrocks1, Reuters, @lucynews, @astroehlein, The Huffington Post, @jsphctrl and @jameshardy61

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Fighting back against government secrecy — CHICAGO — It's come to this. — A transportation reporter for the Associated Press was told by federal government sources that they would be fired if they provided information to the journalist, AP Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee says.

Discussion: @remrieder, @cofoic and @tbridis

Michael Tarm / Associated Press: Journalists criticize White House for ‘secrecy’

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The solution to President Obama's off-the-record sessions with journalists

Discussion: @jeffyoung, @sulliview and @dabeard

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Pink slips to fly at Parade after sale of magazine — The latest issue of Parade pairs Lady Gaga with Tony Bennett on the cover. — The sale of 73-year-old Parade magazine will lead to layoffs for most of the 85 staffers in its New York office, The Post has learned.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, FishbowlNY and MediaWire Daily

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Media buccaneer Rupert Murdoch dares to complain about Google's ‘piracy’ — Help me please. Does the appeal by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to the European Commission about Google amount to an irony? Or is a paradox? Or maybe it's just an example of rank hypocrisy?

Discussion: Business Insider and @jackofkent

BBC:
NewsCorp: Google is a ‘platform for piracy’

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, The Drum, Reuters, Press Gazette, IT PRO, BetaNews, Management Today, Complete Music Update, Gigaom, Business Technology, London Evening Standard, City A.M., @jayrosen_nyu and @jeffjarvis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson sends letter to EU calling for tougher stand on Google

Discussion: News Corp and Guardian

Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:

The Next Web signs exclusive deal with Tencent to republish articles in Chinese — Tencent has signed a deal with western tech blog The Next Web to be the latter's exclusive content partner for Greater China. The announcement published today says Tencent has exclusive rights to translate The Next Web's content into Chinese.

Discussion: The Next Web and @niemanlab

Natalie Jomini Stroud / American Press Institute:

From free to fee: How U.S. dailies decide to use paywalls — Before charging for digital content, doing research seems like good business. It can help publishers learn how particular audiences will react to a transition from free content to paying for content.

Discussion: @raju, @jeffjarvis, @ampress, @niemanlab, @myurow, @jakevolcsko, @mathewi and @kevinloker

Michèle Léridon / AFP Correspondent/ behind the news:

Agence France-Presse won't accept freelance work from Syria, will decide on publishing ISIS images case by case — Covering the “Islamic State” — Faced with the kidnap and murder of journalists in Syria, Iraq and Africa, and the flood of horrific propaganda images spewed out by the …

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Politico, McClatchy Washington Bureau, @amie_fr, @andrewbeatty, @fergalrte, @nicolasdepedro, @rpollard, @astroehlein, @simonvigar5, @jackmcd83, @doylebytes, @shotofwhisky and American Press Institute

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Baquet's new New York Times masthead said to be imminent — Four months after replacing Jill Abramson in The News York Times' top newsroom position, executive editor Dean Baquet is said to be close to announcing some changes to his masthead. — One likely scenario that's being talked about internally …

Discussion: @rustyk5 and @sulliview

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

iOS 8: How 5 news orgs have updated their apps for Apple's new operating system — As iPhone users frantically delete apps and photos from their phones to make space for the iOS 8 update, many news organizations are also taking advantage of Apple's new mobile operating system to release …

Discussion: @ctrouper, BuzzFeed, American Press Institute and THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How the new Wall Street Journal iPad app is taking advantage of new features in iOS 8

Discussion: ReadWrite, Capital New York, VentureBeat, @pgcat, Pocket-lint, @zseward, @lauraelizdavis, TIME, The Next Web, ZDNet and Neowin

Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:

Huffington Post says nearly 50% of traffic comes from outside US as it readies Greek launch — Huffington Post to Launch in Greece — News Aggregator Says Nearly Half of Site's Traffic From Outside the U.S. — The Huffington Post will launch a Greek edition based in Athens this year …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Drum, @elisefoley and Wall Street Journal

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Twitter Quantifies Impact Of Live-Tweeting On TV Engagement — Everyone in the TV business knows the story of how the enthusiastic embrace of Twitter by Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington helped “Scandal” go from living on the cancellation bubble to being a ratings hit.

Discussion: Re/code

Knight Foundation:

News for high schools: Digital media plus teaching equals support for freedom — Report summary: A Right to Speak Out/Our Business is None of Yours. Credit: Column Five. — Some experts say smartphones make young people stupid. Others say technology makes them smarter.

Discussion: @jcstearns, @brizzyc, @ericnewton1, @rickhirsch, @tglaisyer, @jeffjarvis and Guardian

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

EU regulators agree on guidelines for ‘right to be forgotten’ complaints — (Reuters) - European regulators have agreed on criteria for judging appeals for the “right to be forgotten”, taking into account public profiles or crime for example, when search engines such as Google turn down requests …

Discussion: Search Engine Land

Ted Johnson / Variety:

California Governor Signs Expansion of State Film and TV Tax Credit — A bill that more than triples the size of California's film and TV tax credit is now law, as Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed the legislation passed last month designed to stem the tide of runaway production fleeing to other states and countries.

Discussion: The Wrap, Deadline, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters, Los Angeles Times and @xor

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

YouTube is a big success on cable boxes in Hungary. So when will it launch elsewhere? — Cable subscribers in Hungary have been watching a million minutes of YouTube every day since the video service became available on their set-top boxes. — TV viewers love YouTube …

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

CBS May Offer Standalone Showtime to Non-U.S. Viewers — CBS Corp. (CBS) may offer international consumers direct access to programs from its Showtime cable network, as competitor HBO has done in Nordic countries. — The broadcaster may also offer more choices to viewers in the U.S. as part …

Discussion: Deadline

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple, Amazon offer family sharing for digital media — If you spend any time at all buying digital music, movies or other media, you get used to dealing with nonsensical rules about what you can and can't do with the things you bought. But every so often the digital media business surprises you and gets it right.