Top News:
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Pianist asks The Washington Post to remove a concert review under the E.U.'s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling — The pianist Dejan Lazic, like many artists and performers, is occasionally the subject of bad reviews. Also like other artists, he reads those reviews. And disagrees with them.
Discussion:
@mschruers, @xor and @alisternburg
Julie Posetti / blog.wan-ifra.org:
Newly appointed Quartz Executive Editor S. Mitra Kalita on authentic journalism, smart audiences, global expansion, and the essence of a good headline — Newly appointed Quartz Executive Editor S. Mitra Kalita on authentic journalism, smart audiences, global expansion, and the essence of a good headline
Discussion:
@mitrakalita
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Inside The New York Times' video strategy — One big part of The New York Times' post-newspaper strategy: video. — The publisher rolled out a new video player this week. It swallows four times the screen real estate of its predecessor, spanning the Times homepage edge to edge.
Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
Should journalism worry about content marketing? — Corporate brands now compete for audience with an aggressive storytelling strategy — At a glance, the Daily Growl could be any morning news meeting held in the “win the internet through pet videos” bureau of a lavishly funded media startup.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack — Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, @yurivictor, Vox, Gawker, Washington Post, Mediaite and @jayrosen_nyu
Tim Carmody / Nieman Lab:
From rumor to out: Tim Cook reminds us that “unpublishable” facts don't live in a vacuum online — Apple CEO Tim Cook's public acknowledgment that he's gay is a welcome moment for dozens of reasons. Cook becomes the first out CEO of a Fortune 500 company, at the most successful company in the world …
Discussion:
Tech Times, @tcarmody, Personal Weblog of Joe Clark …, Wall Street Journal, @tcarmody and Here & Now
Chris Ip / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat — The Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism — He is the most celebrated journalist writing about race today, and yet Ta-Nehisi Coates' ideas are surprisingly unoriginal. He would be the first to say so.
Discussion:
@pottytheron
Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Matt Taibbi returning to Rolling Stone after split from First Look Media — Journalist who controversially left eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's organisation just days ago will have story in forthcoming Rolling Stone — Matt Taibbi is gathering no moss. The former Rolling Stone journalist …
Discussion:
New York Times, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, The New York Observer, @davidsirota, @matthewwells, @nbj914, @mlcalderone, bizjournals and MediaWire Daily
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Trent Reznor Working on ‘Challenging’ Music Delivery Project at Apple — Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who serves as Chief Creative Officer of Beats Music, became an Apple employee alongside Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre when Apple acquired Beats back in May.
FUSION:
Fusion Staffs Up Silicon Valley Bureau with Several New Hires — New York Magazine's Kevin Roose & Forbes' Kashmir Hill Among Those Joining Fusion Team Based in Bay Area — Fusion today announced several key hires for its new Silicon Valley bureau including Forbes' Kashmir Hill and New York magazine's Kevin Roose.
Discussion:
@kashhill, @alexismadrigal, @kashhill, @jayrosen_nyu, @caradefabio and @annaholmes
Jack Shafer:
Our appetite for fake Ebola stories and other bunk — As if the genuine horrors of Ebola weren't enough, a website called the National Report has taken to ginning up hoax “reports” about the disease. Over the past month, the site has published at least seven fake stories about Ebola …
John Falcone / CNET:
Roku adds Google Play Movies and TV in UK, Canada, Ireland, US; “coming soon” to Roku TVs — Roku adds Google Play channel — The Google video service becomes the latest addition to the Roku streaming box. — Add Google Play to Roku's long list of video channels.
Discussion:
The Official Roku Blog, Ubergizmo, ReadWrite and The Next Web