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Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:
Layoffs hit Freedom Communications as it ceases publication of L.A. Register — Layoffs hit the Orange County Register on Tuesday after owner Freedom Communications ceased publication of its Los Angeles daily five months after it debuted. — The number of layoffs wasn't immediately clear …
Agence France-Presse:
Somali pirates release German-American journalist and writer Michael Scott Moore after more than two years — Somalia pirates release US-German hostage — Mogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore …
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Spiegel Online, Gawker, CNN, SFWeekly, Medium, New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, VICE News and Committee to Protect …
Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Coalition files lawsuit challenging Arizona's ‘nude photo law’ — A coalition of booksellers and others involved in publishing and distributing images is suing the state of Arizona to overturn a law designed to protect people from the unwanted display of nude photos.
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Dataminr, which detects breaking news on social media, now commercially available to news orgs — Tool Hunts for News in the Din of Twitter — Earlier this year, several producers at CNN received an alert from a new digital news-gathering tool that they were testing …
Discussion:
@tvnewslab and The Next Web
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Andy Lack Leaving Bloomberg for New U.S. Government Media Agency — Andy Lack, the chairman of the Bloomberg Media Group, is leaving the company and has been named the first CEO of the United States International Communications Agency, part of the federal government.
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Variety, radioworld.com, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, SocialTimes and FishbowlDC
Margaret Coker / Wall Street Journal:
British Journalist John Cantlie in Purported New Video by Islamic State — Video Part of a Campaign to Discredit Western Intervention Against Islamic State — The U.S. and five Middle Eastern allies launched airstrikes on Islamic State on Monday night. The targets included buildings used as IS supply depots.
Discussion:
BBC, RT, The Huffington Post and Guardian
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Hannah Storm / Guardian:
Journalists are becoming propaganda and we must do more to protect them
Discussion:
@emmamayalex
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Chinese academic sentenced to life in prison after giving interviews to foreign reporters — China Sentences Uighur Scholar to Life — ALTAY, China — A university professor who has become the most visible advocate of peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese government policies …
Discussion:
The White House, CNN, Committee to Protect …, BBC, The Week and Mashable
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why publishers are learning how to buy ads — Publishers are used to spending an inordinate amount of energy trying to attract media buyers, but now they're also playing the role themselves. — Publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed and Complex all have in-house ad-buying capability …
Jon Fine / Inc:
What the Founders of Vice Media, Upworthy, and Aereo Have to Say About Media Innovation — The disruptors behind three of media's most fascinating companies talk about what they've learned and what's next. — Chet Kanojia (Left), Suroosh Alvi. … Vice began 20 years ago as a free publication, the Voice of Montreal.
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
TV Ratings Now Focus On Who Will Watch In The Future — The start of the fall TV season marks the first real concerted effort by the big four broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — to highlight viewers for a show over a full week.The move reflects the shift away from live television viewing …
Discussion:
@buzzfeedben
Liam Dillon / Nieman Lab:
Behind the plans to turn San Diego's daily newspaper into a non-profit — What we know (and don't know) about the plan to make San Diego's daily a nonprofit — Editor's note: In San Diego, a philanthropist is talking about buying up the local daily and turning its ownership into a nonprofit model.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and Voice of San Diego
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
A conversation with David Rose, little magazine veteran and publisher of Lapham's Quarterly — When I sat down with John Summers to talk about the publishing strategy of The Baffler, he told me that if I really wanted to understand the business of small magazines, there was one man I simply had to talk to — David Rose.
Economist:
Think-tank journalism: more to promote ideas and policy than to inform or expose wrongdoing — Think tanks and journalism: the divide between having ideas and reporting on them is dissolving — The divide between having ideas and reporting on them is dissolving
Chris Davis / Memphis Flyer:
Commercial Appeal Announces Changes, 17 Laid Off — A memo circulated to Commercial Appeal employees Sunday, Sept 21 announced that the newspaper would undergo major physical restructuring. Today 17 layoffs were announced including 13 employees covered by the Memphis Newspaper Guild.
Discussion:
Poynter and @wendi_c_thomas
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