Mediagazer: Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool (Frances Perraudin/Guardian)

2:20 PM ET, November 24, 2014

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Frances Perraudin / Guardian:

Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool — Channel 4's Alex Thomson filmed Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and shared the short videos on Twitter — Just before Channel 4 News's chief correspondent Alex Thomson set off on a reporting assignment to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone earlier this month …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

ESPN Gets Ready to Launch Its First Web Video Subscription Service — For Cricket's World Cup — ESPN's efforts to sell streaming video subscriptions for some sports programming — without requiring viewers to pay for cable TV - could start early next year.

Discussion: @raju and @pkafka

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

What's the right news experience on a phone? Stacy-Marie Ishmael and BuzzFeed are trying to figure it out — A few weeks ago, we wrote about BuzzFeed's hiring of Stacy-Marie Ishmael, formerly of the Financial Times, as the editorial lead for their forthcoming news app.

Discussion: @brizzyc, @charlesarthur, @katienelson, @lpolgreen, @thomnagy, @mattfrehner and @s_m_i

Erin Keane / Salon:

Entertainment journalists failed to hold Bill Cosby to account for decades — What I wish I'd asked Bill Cosby: How I learned that entertainment journalists can play hardball too — I know the template — because I followed it — Two years ago, I worked for my local public radio station's news division …

Discussion: New York Times and Today

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

NYT's Public Editor calls for more context, transparency, diversity, and less straining for symmetry in its Israeli/Palestinian conflict coverage — The Conflict and the Coverage — THIS is the column I never wanted to write. For many months I have received hundreds of emails from readers …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @mathieuvonrohr, @mlcalderone, @sigalsamuel, @jonelmer, @daliahatuqa, @mattduss, @dbrauer, @jnaureckas, @dleonhardt, @oliverburkeman, @stephinrome, @joshmitnick, Pressing Issues and @jayrosen_nyu

David Carr / New York Times:

‘Serial,’ Podcasting's First Breakout Hit, Sets Stage for More — On Thursday, people will gather around tables everywhere and, well, talk about how bummed they are that “Serial,” the wildly popular podcast, is taking Thanksgiving off. — “Serial,” by producers of public radio's …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @carr2n, BuzzFeed, @justinmcelroy, @danielpink, @matthewkeyslive, @jeffjarvis, @matthewkeyslive, @benmakestv and @pamelapaulnyt

Emily Bell / Reuters Institute:

After ceding power to Silicon Valley, journalists must build own tools, explore issues of regulation, and report deeply to retain influence — Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or Break up? — Good evening. I want to thank David Levy and the Reuters Institute for inviting me to speak here today.

Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:

Ferguson police may have violated court order by arresting reporter for “failure to disperse” — On A Night Of Peaceful Protests In Ferguson, One Reporter's Arrest Breaks The Calm — FERGUSON, Mo. — Police officers arrested a journalist during peaceful protests in Ferguson on Saturday night …

Discussion: Poynter, @stlcountypd, ACLU-EM News, @ryanjreilly, @joelcurrier, @aclu, @deray, @treyyingst, @alexwroblewski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Reason and Associated Press

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

How a virus demanding a bitcoin ransom almost destroyed a public radio station's archives — It was the first Saturday in November when Patrick Neelin, the lead engineer at the University of Missouri's public radio station KBIA, got an emergency call from the station's programming director.

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

News publications can retain value online by differentiating, like Taylor Swift — Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age — It's hard to have a conversation with anyone in tech without the word “scale” entering the conversation; “Internet scale” is a particularly popular variation of the term.

Discussion: @howardlindzon, @juliangomezc_, @karenmcgrane and @jayrosen_nyu

John Stanton / BuzzFeed:

Somali journalist Said Muse Dahir denied asylum by US, even after being shot by terrorists — Terrorists Shot This Journalist Twice And He Can't Get U.S. Asylum — Said Muse Dahir kept his newspaper and radio show going in Somalia, even as al-Shabaab militants wreak violence in the country.

Discussion: @maddow, @dcbigjohn and @itsjina

Paul Carr / PandoDaily:

Lane Wood, who wrote piece attacking Pando's Sarah Lacy, has links with senior Uber execs — The guy who accused Sarah Lacy of “playing victim” over Uber forgot to disclose he's “bros” with the company's two most senior execs — Ordinarily, guns don't make me feel relaxed.