Top News:
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports — White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media's eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities. They are written by reporters for other reporters …
Discussion:
@farhip, @brianjameswalsh, @clarajeffery, @jdsalant and @mrdanzak
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.
Discussion:
radioworld.com, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, SocialTimes, FishbowlDC and Talking Biz News
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Spiegel Online, CNN, Gawker, VICE News, BBC, New York Times, Associated Press, SFWeekly, Committee to Protect … and Medium
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.
Discussion:
@chrisbeha
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
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.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain videos — There are millions of articles on Wikipedia, but less than 6000 contain a video. That's despite long-running efforts to get more video onto Wikipedia. — How can you make Wikipedia more attractive to the YouTube generation?
Discussion:
Recente blogposts
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Iranian President Says He Can't Do Anything To Free Detained Reporter — Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addressed his country's continued detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaiain in a meeting with American editors and journalists in New York on Friday.
Discussion:
Poynter and Washington Post
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:
Committee to Protect …, @freetibetorg, BBC, The Week, The White House, @tarekfatah, CNN and Mashable
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Dataminr, which detects breaking news on social media, now commercially available to news orgs — Tool Called Dataminr 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:
The Next Web and @tvnewslab
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
PRSS Digital Magazine Platform Acquired By Apple — Apple has acquired Dutch digital magazine startup Prss, a platform that makes it easy to create iPad-compatible magazines using tools that don't require any knowledge of code. The company is essentially a magazine-focused version of iBooks Author …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Engadget, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Talking New Media, @emieljanson, @ibacertprogram, @sean_oneill, App Advice, Business Insider and The Next Web
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 …