Top News:
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Global newspaper readership falls more than 25% in four years — ZenithOptimedia report finds print remains popular in UK as internet boosts media consumption worldwide — The average amount of time spent reading newspapers fell more than 25% globally from 2010 to 2014 …
Discussion:
Quartz, Fortune, @johnrobinson and ZenithOptimedia
Quartz:
Quartz Africa goes live — Welcome to Quartz Africa. — We're excited to be building out a team of journalists in the region to better serve our readers in Africa and business professionals around the world. Since the launch of Quartz in 2012, we have focused on seismic changes to the new global economy.
Discussion:
@dikshamadhok, @katelaurielee, @kevinjdelaney, @qzafrica, One Man & His Blog and Media Wire Daily
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as ‘Nightly News’ anchor — Brian Williams may lose his seat as anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,” but executives are looking for a way to keep him at the network in a new role. — Weeks of complex negotiations between Williams and NBC are not yet complete …
Discussion:
Variety, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @chriscuomo, Vanity Fair, Poynter, Washington Post, UPROXX, Inside Cable News, The Wrap, Deadline and CNN
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Clinton campaign reporters complain that press pool organizers are restricting information, delaying copy — On the trail of Hillary Clinton, not everyone is allowed to jump into the press pool — When it comes to covering Hillary Rodham Clinton, some campaign reporters are feeling less equal than others.
Discussion:
Mediaite, Fortune, @jayrosen_nyu and @marklittlenews
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times, Washington Post, and Mozilla launch The Coral Project, an initiative to help form communities of commenters — The Coral Project aims to help commenters become communities — Earlier this year, a group of Washington Post readers decided to meet up because of something they'd read online.
Discussion:
@jskstanford and @poynter
Gannett Company, Inc:
Gannett acquires 11 media organizations from Digital First Media — McLEAN, VA - Gannett Co., Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 59.36% interest in the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership that it did not own from Digital First Media.
Discussion:
@jimbradysp
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Supreme Court reverses conviction in Facebook threat case — The Supreme Court on Monday reversed the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for making violent threats on Facebook. — The court found members of the jury who convicted the man …
Discussion:
Fortune, Politico, BuzzFeed, USA Today, CNN, Hollywood Reporter, The Independent, Wall Street Journal, Law, TIME and Central Maine
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Dow Jones Cuts More Than 40 Staffers — Dow Jones has cut staffers in its Professional Information Business and circulation department. According to a union memo about the layoffs, there were also unconfirmed reports of Baron's losing six editorial staffers.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Pew report: 61% of millennials got their political news from Facebook in the last week, 37% from local television — Study: Facebook main source of political news for millennials — A majority of millennials get a chunk of their news about politics and government from Facebook, a new report from Pew found.
Discussion:
Journalism.org, Nieman Lab, Adweek, SocialTimes, TVSpy, The Verge, GeekWire, @hadas_gold, @robertcaruso, @tomgara, @sunny_hundal, Pew Research Center and @mathewi
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
RTE, The Irish Times to challenge O'Brien injunction in court on Tuesday — Ireland's leading media outlets challenge Denis O'Brien injunction — Irish Times and RTÉ argue that public interest is served by reporting statement made by politician under parliamentary privilege
Discussion:
The Irish Times
Alison Flood / Guardian:
Novelist says she was wrong to oppose Charlie Hebdo PEN award — Jennifer Cody Epstein says it was a mistake to question freedom of speech honour, and that magazine's articles ‘sprang from satire, not hate’ — The American novelist Jennifer Cody Epstein has said that she …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Time Warner Cable CFO Arthur Minson To Depart Co. — Time Warner Cable said its chief financial officer, Arthur Minson, would leave the company for another position, just days after the cable distributor agreed to be purchased by Charter Communications. The move is effective immediately, the company said.
Discussion:
Multichannel News, New York Times, Reuters, FierceCable, NASDAQ.com and NASDAQ.com