Top News:
New York Times:
Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts — ISIS Is Adept on Twitter, Study Finds — The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate, has been astonishingly successful …
RELATED:
Hiba Zayadin / Mediashift:
Fighting Words: Inside the Social Media War Against ISIS
Chadwick Matlin / FiveThirtyEight:
Draftback allows playback of the writing process to offer insights and teach writing skills — Watch Me Write This Article — If you could watch a replay of James Somers building a program that lets us see our own writing played back to us, you'd need to start seven years ago.
Discussion:
@kenbaumann, @austinkleon, @ksablan, @scottros and The Awl
Sean Augustine-Obi / Capital New York:
Brooklyn-based digital magazine Bklynr folds after two years — After 44 issues, the Brooklyn digital magazine Bklynr announced on Thursday that the publication was shutting down. — In an email to staff and contributors, founding editors Thomas Rhiel and Raphael Pope-Sussman announced …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first — Apple, Music Labels Push Against Free Music on Spotify, YouTube — Right now it's easy to stream any song you want, whenever you want, legally, without paying a penny.
Discussion:
MacRumors, Gigaom, Fast Company, Digital Music News, Digital Trends, MacRumors, @pkafka, @richantoniello, @mikeisaac, hypebot, Billboard, SlashGear, Consumerist, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New editor Impoco has Newsweek back in the black — Newsweek hopes to expand editorial staff to 100 by next year. — One year after the embattled Newsweek returned to print as a small run weekly, Editor-in-Chief Jim Impoco has apparently done something that eluded previous high-flying editors Tina Brown …
Discussion:
@jimpoco, @johnness, @jackshafer and @learmonth
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Andy Lack named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC — Andy Lack, the former NBC executive who was rumored to be considering a return to the network, has been named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke announced in a memo to staff Friday.
Discussion:
CNNMoney, CNNMoney, Variety, Bloomberg Business, TVNewser, TVNewser, New York Times, The Wrap, Adweek, NPR, FishbowlNY, Orlando Sentinel, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Capital New York, @poynter, New York Post, The Wrap, Mediaite, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, The Huffington Post, Media & Entertainment, Broadcasting & Cable and Mashable
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Tests New Ways To Mix Ads With News — Do ads belong in the ubiquitous news ticker that scrolls along during so many TV-news broadcasts? CNN is willing to find out. — The Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet is open to the idea of running an advertiser's logo in its bottom-of-the-screen zipper …
Discussion:
NewscastStudio, @bristei and FTVLive
Pedro Servin / Associated Press:
Paraguayan Journalist Shot to Death Along Brazil Border — A Paraguayan radio journalist has been shot to death in a Brazilian city bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling, officials said on Friday. — Gerardo Servian worked for a local radio station near the city of Pedro Juan Caballero.
Discussion:
Committee to Protect …
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
The Times digital team launches open-source ‘quoteable’ image tool — The Times and Sunday Times is following in the footsteps of Vox Media and NPR by creating its own open-source image creation tool — Credit: Image by opensource.com on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
Discussion:
mUmBRELLA
Jack Riley / Nieman Lab:
How publishers like the Financial Times and Circa are thinking about using smartwatches for notifications, personalization, and revenue — The next stage in the battle for our attention: Our wrists — Editor's note: On Monday, Apple is expected to formally launch the Apple Watch, which will go on sale next month.
Discussion:
@stumackintosh and @_jackriley
Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog:
Top sites for Buzzfeed images include Tumblr, Instagram, Getty, YouTube, Flickr, Imgur, Giphy — Where Does BuzzFeed Source Its Content From? — BuzzFeed, the internet culture / news / listicle website, is on a roll. Their ability to find interesting content on the internet is the envy of the media world.
Toledo Blade:
US government agrees to pay Toledo Blade $18K after seizing photographer's camera and deleting photos — Blade gets $18,000 from government for deleted photos — In what was seen as a victory for First Amendment rights, the U.S. government agreed Thursday to pay The Blade $18,000 for seizing …
Discussion:
@jonathanwpeters and @onanews