Mediagazer: Actors, Showrunners Live-Tweeting Their Shows: The New Hollywood House Party? (David Bloom/Deadline)

9:55 AM ET, September 29, 2014

Top News:

Instagram, Chinese Media Restricted as Hong Kong Riots — Media in mainland China has limited its coverage of the severe social unrest taking place on the streets of Hong Kong. — In contrast, Hong Kong and international media have been carrying non-stop reports from the barricades …

Discussion: Reuters, Latest News & Headlines, Foreign Policy, New York Times, BBC, Guardian, USA Today, PC World, BBC, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, TheBlaze.com, Tech in Asia, The Verge, New York Times and American Press Institute

Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:

Record censorship of China's social media as references to Hong Kong protests blocked — Censorship on Chinese social media has reached a new record this year as the mainland's editors of public debate rushed to quell conversations on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.

Discussion: Quartz and @laurencewsj

Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:

Hongkongers flock to ‘off-grid’ chat app FireChat amid fears of internet shutdown — Main menu — You are here — A mobile messaging application enabling users to communicate without internet access has seen large numbers of new sign-ups from Hong Kong as pro-democracy demonstrators …

Discussion: The Independent

Jack Gillum / Associated Press:

Ferguson officials charge news outlets thousands of dollars to retrieve public records about Brown shooting — Ferguson Demands High Fees To Turn Over City Files — 2 photos — WASHINGTON (AP) — Bureaucrats in Ferguson, Missouri, responding to requests under the state's Sunshine Act …

Discussion: Poynter and @bomani_jones

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Association of Magazine Media launches new metric to track audiences beyond print — Magazines to Count Readers in New Way — Publishers Seize Chance to Show Growth With Metric Tool That Tracks Audiences Across Categories — Magazine publishers have long argued that traditional industry print metrics …

Discussion: AdAge, New York Times, WWD, Capital New York and Adweek

Wall Street Journal:

Softbank in Talks to Acquire DreamWorks Animation — Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp. is in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

David Bloom / Deadline:

Actors, Showrunners Live-Tweeting Their Shows: The New Hollywood House Party? — At the first commercial break of the first airing of the first episode of his new TV show, Scorpion actor Robert Patrick was bent over, scowling at his smartphone, grumbling with some exasperation, “I can't keep up!

Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

Chinese Online Movie-Ticket Sales Rose 43 Percent Last Year, Study Finds — The number of people who paid for tickets with mobile phones increased by 109 percent — China's box-office boom, which has seen theatrical revenue rise by 20 percent a year, has been accompanied by a jump …

Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:

Iran State TV: BBC Tried To Steal From ‘archives’ — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television accused the BBC on Sunday of trying to steal “artistic, historic and cultural documents” from government archives in the Islamic Republic. — The BBC had no immediate comment on the claim …

Discussion: International Business Times

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Universal Music Group to introduce native in-video advertising in streaming music videos — Your Favorite Old And New Music Videos Are About To Get A Brand Makeover — Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label, advertising agency Havas, and ad tech company Mirriad have teamed …

Discussion: MediaPost, The Independent, @rhodri, @peterlauria3, MediaNama and Music Week

Press Gazette:

Times lawyer recklessly, rather than knowingly, misled High Court over Nightjack email hacking — The High Court has ruled that a former lawyer for The Times recklessly rather than knowingly allowed the court to be misled in the Nightjack case. — In doing so it partially upheld the appeal …

Ben Austen / New York Magazine:

Chasing Mayhem With Peter Nickeas, the Chicago Tribune's Overnight Crime Reporter — “Did you guys have a shooting on the expressway? No? Okay, I’ll try back later.” — Shares — “Cold is the best crime deterrent,” says Peter Nickeas, the overnight reporter covering violence …

Discussion: @bkesling, @kjerstinwood and @yayitsrob

ABC:

Australia Network, broadcasting to 46 countries, goes off the air after May budget cuts — Australia Network set to go off the air in the Asia and Pacific region — The Australia Network goes off the air from today after the Federal Government withdrew funding for the broadcaster earlier this year.

Discussion: @mo09, @grahamrabbott, @docevatt, @julianburnside, @clivefpalmer and @qldaah