Mediagazer: Association of Magazine Media launches new metric to track audiences beyond print (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street …)

9:15 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 …

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

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.

Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:

Seattle Times, Pro Publica, NPR take home 2014 Online Journalism Awards — CHICAGO — Coverage of natural disasters and health care as well as the making of a T-shirt took top honors Saturday night at the 2014 Online Journalism Awards, which ended the Online News Association Conference.

Discussion: Seattle Times blogs, Miami Herald & …, Agence France-Presse, Los Angeles Times and @raju

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

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Polish newspaper launches interactive data journalism platform — Gazeta Wyborcza set up BIQdata.pl, ‘the first website of its kind’ in Poland, to offer more visuals and interactive data analysis to its subscribers — Credit: By Luke Legay on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

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, MediaNama and Music Week

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: @kjerstinwood and @yayitsrob

Jackie Spinner / American Journalism Review:

The Big Conundrum: Should Journalists Learn Code? — In the new multimedia world journalists inhabit, Fernando Diaz, the managing editor of Hoy, Chicago's Spanish-language daily, is placing his bets on computer codes. — His last two hires were both developers: Nick Bennett …

Discussion: @markstencel and @cerenomri

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