Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:30 AM ET, January 28, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
The Guardian launches its new responsive website worldwide  —  Welcome to the new Guardian website  —  After more than 18 months of development, the Guardian has unveiled a new site for its readers in the UK and around the world  —  The Guardian has a history stretching back almost 200 years of creating world-class journalism.
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Gawker Media Generated $45 Million In Net Revenue Last Year And It's Raising A $15 Million Round Of Debt  —  Nick Denton orders the shrimp linguine.  He doesn't look at Balthazar's menu; the media mogul frequents the restaurant and everyone from the hostess to fellow diners knows who he is.
Discussion: @jbarro
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Unlike the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, the New York Times Company has no reason to sell anytime soon  —  4 reasons the New York Times Company won't be sold anytime soon  —  We learned last week that Michael Bloomberg would like to buy the New York Times Company.
Discussion: @raju and @rickedmonds
RELATED:
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Yahoo reports mixed Q4 with mobile revenue of $254M, up from $200M previous quarter; total revenue of $1.18B  —  Yahoo Reports Mixed Q4 With Mobile Revenue Of $254M, Total Top Line Of $1.18B  —  Today Yahoo reported its fourth-quarter financial performance, including revenue excluding …
RELATED:
Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Business launches, integrating Bloomberg News, Businessweek, and Bloomberg TV  —  Welcome to Bloomberg Business  —  Smarter.  Faster.  —  Don't Miss Out —  We're excited to finally share a project that thousands of journalists, developers, photographers, videographers …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
AOL Likely to Shutter Gaming Site Joystiq in Larger Content Cleanup  —  According to numerous sources, AOL is likely to shutter its primary video game site Joystiq, part of an extensive house-cleaning of its underperforming content properties that is taking place over the next weeks.
Discussion: Adweek, Joystiq, Circa News and AdExchanger
Rui Kaneya / Columbia Journalism Review:
It's still early, but the Sun Times Network does not look very good  —  So far, the network has done little to distinguish itself—and observers doubt that it will  —  CHICAGO, IL — When Wrapports LLC, the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, announced in October that it was launching …
Discussion: Street Fight and @ruikaneya
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
News aggregator Anews raises $2.7M for further international expansion  —  Anews, an international global news-reading service with a built-in behavioral advertising network, has received $2.7 million from TMT Investments, Run Capital, 101 Startup and several individual investors.
CBC News:
Canada's electronic spy agency tracks millions of online movie, photo, music, and other downloads worldwide  —  CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents  —  Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance
Leslie T Chang / Guardian:
The news website that's keeping press freedom alive in Egypt  —  Mada Masr was formed just before military coup of 2013.  Amid growing censorship, its staff have risked their lives to continue reporting.  Can they stay true to their mission?  —  On the afternoon of 17 June 2013 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In response to missteps, Boston.com tweaks its editing approach  —  By any editor's standards, Jan. 14 was a difficult day for the staff of Boston.com.  The night before, the outlet published an article which wondered whether anyone would notice had House Speaker John Boehner been poisoned by a bartender.
Discussion: @pottsmark and @tybatiste
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 9:30 AM ET, January 28, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Azerbaijan prolongs pretrial detention period for investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova by two months
Discussion: Index on Censorship
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Five journalists killed when gunmen ambush convoy in South Sudan
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Meet ‘Reveal,’ the show that could be ‘60 Minutes’ for our century
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube's Offer To Musicians Isn't As Bad As Some Believe, But YouTube Should Still Change Its Policies
Discussion: stratechery, Guardian and PandoDaily
 Earlier Picks: 
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Snapchat launches Discover to highlight stories and videos from media partners as well as its own in-house team of journalists
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Vox Media produces social-only content to be ready for any Facebook moves and to extend reach
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — How the language police are perverting liberalism.
Brant Houston / The American University in Cairo:
Investigative journalists build new networks and partnerships, but funding challenges remain