Mediagazer: How Harvard Business Review wins social media (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

4:55 AM ET, October 30, 2014

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

How Harvard Business Review wins social media — The phrase “clickable content” is unlikely to bring to mind thrilling headlines from the Harvard Business Review. Despite a redesign four years ago, the niche business publication has fought a reputation of being an academic journal for the business elite …

Liam Andrew / Nieman Lab:

Controlled chaos: As journalism and documentary film converge in digital, what lessons can they share? — Documentary film and journalism are, in many ways, rooted in the same traditions. Though focus on narrative often differentiates film from traditional journalism …

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

NPR to open Seoul bureau — National Public Radio Wednesday revealed plans to open a bureau in Seoul, South Korea, naming culture and technology reporter Elise Hu its Asia correspondent there. — In addition to being at the heart of technological and economic force, the bureau …

Discussion: Hey Elise, @akikofujita and @elisewho

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch urges media firms to unite to fight Amazon and Netflix — 21st Century Fox chairman says industry is ‘on the same page’ about need to come up with serious competitor to streaming video giants — The media industry needs its own competitor to online streaming giants Amazon and Netflix …

Discussion: Gigaom and Hollywood Reporter

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Space journalism’: How ProPublica tells stories using satellites — Knight-Mozilla fellow and ‘space journalist’ Brian Jacobs explains how ProPublica tells the story of disappearing wetlands in Louisiana using NASA satellites — Credit: Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr.

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

PBS NewsHour Enters Partnership With The Atlantic Magazine — The Atlantic magazine is teaming up with PBS's “NewsHour” in a pact that will produce the first regular broadcast adaptation rof reporting from the periodical, which focuses on long-form journalism and ideas.

Discussion: 10,000 Words, NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Politico and MediaWire Daily

Geoffrey King / Committee to Protect Journalists:

For journalists coming into US, policies border on the absurd — I was only supposed to be in Miami for the briefest of layovers. I was en route to San Francisco from São Paulo in Brazil, where I had participated in the NETMundial Conference on Internet governance along with hundreds …

Discussion: @cpjinternet, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Huffington Post

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets — Listen to the Story — At most news organizations, journalists celebrate when they get a story in print, on air or online. — At Storyful, editors high-five when they knock a story down.

Discussion: @mjbroersma and @mjenkins

Berivan Orucoglu / Foreign Policy:

Turkish government wants Twitter to remove current, future accounts for Today's Zaman editor — Turkey's Twitter Wars Heat Up — As the Turkish government continues to squeeze freedom of expression, many Turks have found themselves resorting increasingly to social media in order to learn what's going on in their country.

Discussion: @tubabozkurt, @zeynep, @wj_armstrong and BGNNews

Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:

MPAA and National Association of Theatre Owners Ban Google Glass, Other Wearable Tech — Glasses, smartwatches and other devices must be turned off and stowed — Don't plan on being able to wear your Google Glass or smartwatch when heading to the movies.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Washington Post and Variety

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Guardian executive digital editor: ‘The decline of print is an absolute given.’ — Despite all the signs to the contrary, many in the newspaper business still hold on to the idea that print will have a big role to play in the long-term future of news organisations.

Discussion: @ben_hazell, @raju, @fedecherubini and @jaspjackson, Thanks:@chrismsutcliffe

Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
Guardian US launches responsive, redesigned website with flexible section pages

Discussion: Digiday, Poynter, Capital New York, AdAge, Guardian, @kathviner, Guardian, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, @ceciliamarie, @wblau and @maraithe

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Google Play Movies is getting second-screen smarts for Chromecast — What that guy's name again? Wasn't he in that other movie too? Google Play Movies users can now find relevant information in the app's new second-screen experience as they watch a flick on the big screen.

Robert Mackey / New York Times:

Cantlie/ISIS video raises ethical questions about broadcasting material produced by kidnappers — Echoes of Patty Hearst in Kobani — A propaganda video released on Monday by Islamic State militants in Syria, recorded in the besieged city of Kobani and narrated by a hostage …

Discussion: @ravisomaiya

Brewster / Internet Archive Blogs:

Internet Archive launches new tools to open archiving process to media-based communities — Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction — Let's work together to save all human knowledge. Today the Internet Archive is announcing a new beta site and new tools to encourage everyone to lend a hand.

Discussion: @simoncarless, @internetarchive and VentureBeat

The Moscow Times: Russia Bans Wayback Machine Internet Archive Over Islamic State Video

Jonathan Kaiman / Guardian:

Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media — Young turn to social media as newspapers and TV stations owned by local tycoons take care not to offend mainland China — Every time Alice Lau visits Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, she wears two photo ID badges …

Discussion: @tomgrundy and @dangillmor

Patrick Frater / Variety:

Australia Channel Replaces ABC's Australia Network — HONG KONG — The Australia Channel will take to the airwaves in international markets in a place previously occupied by the Australia Network, which closed definitively at the end of September. The...

Discussion: Indian Television Dot Com and C21Media

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Scotsman titles to merge with up to 45 job losses — Johnston Press announces flagship daily will share operations with Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News — The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News are to merge operations with the loss of up to 45 jobs.

Discussion: Home on News, The Drum, @alexmassie, @meljomur, @nickeardley, @blairmcdougall, @djmacdstv and Prolific North

Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:

Unmasking Yelp Users Would Hurt Free Speech, Warn Google and Facebook — Google, Facebook and Twitter are warning that giving companies the power to unmask anonymous Yelp reviewers would strike a blow to Internet free speech. — “The right to speak anonymously would be greatly diminished …

Discussion: @wsjlawblog

Shelli Weinstein / Variety:

History Channel to Launch Online Course for College Credit — The college classroom is embracing television, as A&E Network's History channel has partnered with the University of Oklahoma to offer the very first television network-branded online course for credit.

Discussion: Norman Transcript, Streaming Media, Education Dive, Entertain This!, The A.V. Club and @deanflorez