Mediagazer: NPR to open Seoul bureau (Benjamin Mullin/Poynter)

7:00 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 …

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts, @digiday and @raju

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, FishbowlNY 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.

Discussion: @macloo

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, @joelcpj, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Huffington Post

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, MediaWire Daily and Politico

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: @rtdna, @mjbroersma and @mjenkins

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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: @tjowens, @simoncarless, @internetarchive and VentureBeat