Mediagazer: Nikki Finke launches Hollywood Dementia, a new paywalled site publishing fiction by Hollywood insiders, will charge readers $1 per post (Nikki Finke)

2:00 PM ET, May 18, 2015

Top News:

Mark Lobel / BBC:

BBC team reporting on 2022 FIFA World Cup workers in Qatar was held for two days in prison — Arrested for reporting on Qatar's World Cup labourers — Improved housing is being built for labourers — We were invited to Qatar by the prime minister's office to see new flagship accommodation …

Matthew Weaver / Guardian:

Fifa to investigate arrest of BBC news team in Qatar — Team was on official visit to inspect migrant workers' accommodation after outcry over conditions for those building 2022 World Cup stadiums — Football's governing body, Fifa, has launched an investigation after a BBC news team …

Discussion: The Independent, Mashable, @alauraschneider, Press Gazette and @andrewfeinstein

Financial Times:

Financial Times rolls out ‘cost per hour’ advertising metric — 18 May 2015: The Financial Times today announces the launch of a new digital advertising metric, ‘cost per hour’ (CPH). Working closely with Chartbeat on the new time-based system, the FT is able to increase marketing effectiveness …

Discussion: AdAge, @devindigital, The Next Web and @henrymance

Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:

Stephanopoulos apologises again, says he donated to Clinton Foundation to support its charitable work, like stopping the spread of AIDS — Stephanopoulos Apologizes Again For Clinton Foundation Donations — George Stephanopoulos apologized on air for a second time …

Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
George Stephanopoulos and the Line Between News and Entertainment

Discussion: American Press Institute

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

Broadcast, cable networks unite to form new trade body, Video Advertising Bureau, to promote TV advertising as digital video takes up more ad budgets — Broadcast, Cable Nets Unite Vs. Online Content — Video Advertising Bureau formed to support ‘multiplatform TV’

Discussion: Adweek and Variety

Nikki Finke:

Nikki Finke launches Hollywood Dementia, a new paywalled site publishing fiction by Hollywood insiders, will charge readers $1 per post — Nikki Finke Announces New Site HollywoodDementia.com — Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara and more recently Michael Tolkin and Bruce Wagner …

Discussion: Business Insider, Deadline, LA Observed, Gawker, FishbowlNY, @hwooddementia, Publishers Lunch, @nikkifinke, @cschweitz, @alexweprin and Poynter

Daniel Popper / American Journalism Review:

Billy Penn CEO Jim Brady talks about the news startup, plans to expand to other cities — Inside Billy Penn with CEO Jim Brady — Editor's Note: This Q&A is part of “Newsroom Spotlight,” a series of conversations with journalists about what's going on in their newsrooms and the media industry.

Discussion: @raju and @jayrosen_nyu

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

As Facebook and Google push for control of distribution, publishers must collaborate with these platforms and educate them about journalism — Playing leapfrog and werewolf with Google and Facebook — First Google made its friendship pact with eight old, European publishers, vowing to innovate together.

Discussion: Poynter, @hannah_suppa, @wblau, @lousypennies, @chrismoranuk and @jeffjarvis, Thanks:@steverubel

Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:

How journalism schools are integrating digital media skills into their curricula to keep pace with industry changes — How journalism schools are adjusting to the digital age — When the digital revolution swept across the media industry, the nation's journalism schools rushed to keep pace.

Discussion: @peterhlewis

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Nielsen Explains How It's Adapting to the Rise of Online Video — Nielsen has been a controversial character on this year's upfront stages. — At ratings-challenged MTV's upfront last month, it was the villain, decried as “that old measuring system that the industry uses” which …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:

Slack launches Slack Variety Pack, a podcast featuring stories about work and life — SLACK'S NEW PODCAST: “ ‘THIS AMERICAN LIFE’ MEETS ‘OFFICE SPACE’ MEETS ‘MONTY PYTHON’ ” — For a Silicon Valley phenom, Slack has an atypically low-key personality. Yes, its goal—getting the busy people …

Discussion: TIME and @harrymccracken

Washpostpr / Washington Post:

Washington Post designer used Periscope to live-stream the drawing of the paper's Sports section front — Sports Editor Matt Vita, Designer Dan Worthington on Periscoping last night's Sports section — Last night, Washington Post designer Dan Worthington live-streamed the drawing …

Discussion: @natashatynes

Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:

China's Baidu invests in content recommendation platform Taboola, sources say around $20-30M — Baidu Invests in Content-Recommendation Company Taboola — Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. said it is partnering with Taboola Inc. to bring Taboola's content-recommendation platform to China.

Discussion: @stittr