Mediagazer: Netflix gains global attention with its Sandler partnership, he gets branding and little risk (Chris Plante/The Verge)

3:30 AM ET, October 4, 2014

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Dave Cohn to leave Circa, Anthony De Rosa will lead all editorial; Circa plans to double editorial staff as it prepares website — As David Cohn exits, Circa looks to double its editorial team — Circa's chief content officer David Cohn will exit the company after two-and-a-half years …

Discussion: Medium, @digidave, @rafat, @antderosa, @mg and @mg

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: ex-News of the World lawyer will not face prosecution — Evidence emerged at Rebekah Brooks trial that Tom Crone's office safe contained transcripts of David Blunkett's voicemails — The former legal manager at the News of the World, whose office safe contained transcripts …

Discussion: Press Gazette and @ryanchittum

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News of the Worlds Ian Edmondson pleads guilty

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Business Standard, Sky News, Bloomberg, Business Spectator, London Evening Standard, International Business Times, The Independent, expressandstar.com, Daily Star, BBC, Telegraph and BreakingNews.ie

Sandra Laville / Guardian:

Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed — Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed — The elderly father of the British journalist John Cantlie …

Discussion: BBC and Associated Press

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Deputy editor Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel to become director of culture coverage at Fusion — Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel for Fusion — Jezebel deputy editor Dodai Stewart is leaving the Gawker Media site to become Director of Culture Coverage at Fusion, digital editor-in-chief Jane Spencer announced in a note to staff today.

Discussion: @rebel19, FUSION, @joypress, @jillfilipovic, @ensignbabyface and @juliabwrites

Chris Plante / The Verge:

Netflix gains global attention with its Sandler partnership, he gets branding and little risk — Why Adam Sandler is making four films with Netflix — You might think of Adam Sandler as a comedian or an actor, but above everything else, he's a businessman.

Discussion: TechCrunch, TIME and Business Insider

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Reuters plans to launch Reuters.TV for iPhones and iPads in early 2015 — Reuters Is the Latest to Try Reinventing News With Digital TV Service — Reuters.TV Will Bow In Early 2015 — How to Make Credible Green Marketing Claims — Reuters is the latest news organization attempting …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:

Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released — Judge orders US government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing force-feeding of hunger-striking Syrian detainee — A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force-feeding of an inmate at Guantánamo Bay.

Discussion: New York Times, Freedom of the Press …, Gawker, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press

Emily Gera / Polygon:

New Twitch policy: labeling sponsored videos, leaving users to declare their own sponsorships — Twitch addresses the ‘dark corner’ of the games industry with new transparency policy — New policy changes at Twitch are aiming to protect both viewers and content creators by highlighting …

Discussion: The Official Twitch Blog, Gamasutra, TIME and The Next Web

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Panorama to scale back investigative journalism in shake up — BBC's flagship current affairs show has suffered falling ratings and will now feature more news analysis programmes — The BBC's Panorama is to scale back its investigative journalism and feature more analysis and familiar faces …

Discussion: @dansabbagh and @tomjharper

James Dutton / TheMediaBriefing:

News Corp's Rahul Chopra: 'Videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story' — “In the sharing age videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story”, Storyful and News Corp's Rahul Chopra told Monetising Media yesterday.

David Carr / New York Times:

‘Kill the Messenger’ Recalls a Reporter Wrongly Disgraced — If someone told you today that there was strong evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency once turned a blind eye to accusations of drug dealing by operatives it worked with, it might ring some distant, skeptical bell. Did that really happen?

Discussion: @abtran, @davidgrann, @tanehisicoates, @ethanbrown72, @palafo and @psullivan1

Rani Molla / Wall Street Journal:

How Much Americans Know About the News by Age, Education and Politics — Before you read this post, take the Pew Research Center News IQ quiz. — How much do you know about current events? That might depend on your age, education and even political party, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

Discussion: Pew Research Center, Talking New Media, Business Insider and PandoDaily