Mediagazer: Google Play Movies is getting second-screen smarts for Chromecast (Janko Roettgers/Gigaom)

3:45 PM ET, October 29, 2014

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Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:

Guardian US launches responsive, redesigned website with flexible section pages — Welcome to the new Guardian US — We are proud to introduce our 27 million American readers to the new US edition of theguardian.com today. Take a look around and let us know what you think

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

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

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

Pierre Omidyar / First Look Media:

Magazine journalist Matt Taibbi has left Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media: “Our differences were never about editorial independence” — Important Announcement — I regret to announce that after several weeks of discussions, Matt Taibbi has left First Look. We wish him well.

Theo Padnos / New York Times:

Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria — My Captivity: A Journalist's Years in Syria — In 2012, Theo Padnos, an American journalist, was kidnapped by the Nusra Front. After months of beatings and torture, he was certain he would be executed.

Discussion: @daveedgr, @ivancnn, @thevanessag, Guardian, @shane_bauer, @jakesilverstein, @maassp, @exumam, @joshua_landis, @jenanmoussa, @mollymhunter, @kendilanianap and New York Magazine

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Digital chief Denise Warren leaves the Times — Denise Warren, The New York Times' digital chief and a 26-year veteran, is leaving the company as a result of what Times brass described as “organizational changes.” — Warren has served as executive vice president of digital products and services since April 2013.

Discussion: New York Times, @joepompeo, @sdkstl, @mathewi, @vivian, FishbowlNY, @edmundlee and @samsifton

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: The Drum, Home on News, @alexmassie, @meljomur, @djmacdstv, @nickeardley, @blairmcdougall and The Guardian

Sarah Hartley / Prolific North:
Johnston Press ‘near doubling’ of mobile audience alongside revenue decline

Discussion: Press Gazette, Johnston Press plc and Guardian

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: @internetarchive, @simoncarless and VentureBeat

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

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson alleges network suppressed stories on ‘corporate partners’ — CBS News declined to comment on the allegations below. — In an astonishing media tour following her resignation from CBS News last spring, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson sat …

Discussion: TVNewser, Washington Post, Washington Post, @erikwemple, BREITBART.COM, Washington Times, TheBlaze.com, Fox News and Talking Biz News

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

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, @mjenkins and www.wnyc.org

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

British Broadcaster Sky Invests $7 Million In YouTube Video Network Whistle Sports — Sky (BSkyB) is best known as a British satellite broadcaster, but it is increasingly becoming a startup investor after it announced its third deal in a month. Fresh from putting $5 million …

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

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.

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

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: C21Media and Indian Television Dot Com

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 …

Diana Marszalek / NetNewsCheck:

Alt Weeklies Plan To Launch Online Radio — To try to grow its members' reach — and revenue — the Association of Alternative Newsmedia early next year plans to launch an online radio station that reflects the medium's tradition of being “scrappy, entrepreneurial and willing to push.”

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

Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:

Iranian journalists detained after reporting on acid attacks — Hardliners criticise news agency's coverage of assaults on women in city of Isfahan — Iranian authorities, irked by the scale of public outrage about a string of acid attacks in the city of Isfahan, have turned on the media …

Discussion: Full, @timesofisrael, Telegraph, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Agence France-Presse and Slate

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

UK newspaper ad revenue returns to growth as digital income surges — Online ad spend a major factor behind second annual increase since 2007, with total figure set to rise 1% to £1.42bn in 2015 — Digital ad spend across UK newspapers is predicted to rise 19.5% in 2014, says the Advertising Association.

Discussion: allmediascotland