Top News:
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Jason Fine, editor of Men's Health, will succeed Will Dana as managing editor of Rolling Stone — Rolling Stone Appoints a New Managing Editor — Jason Fine, the editor of Men's Journal, will take over as the managing editor of Rolling Stone as part of what the magazine's publisher, Jann S. Wenner, described as a “shake-up.”
Discussion:
@choire, New York Magazine and Media Wire Daily
Ana Marie Cox / New York Times:
Q&A with ClickHole Editor-in-Chief Jermaine Affonso on viral content, keeping satire fresh, and absurdity in media — Jermaine Affonso Can't Escape the Garbage, Either — You are the editor in chief of ClickHole, a website The Onion started last year that satirizes web media.
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@sarahjeong, @sarahjeong and @sarahjeong
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
The Marshall Project's Bill Keller on the future of print, investigative journalism, and digital news outlets — Bill Keller Discusses The Marshall Project's Nonprofit Journalism — It's late morning on a Friday in mid-July. Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times …
Discussion:
@nbj914
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fact checker @picpedant fights visual misinformation on Twitter — BEHIND THE WAVE OF WILDLY POPULAR science and history social media feeds, such as @DoYouScience, @oldpicsarchive, and @ScienceAllDay, there is a rogue fact-checker calling out the fakes. Paulo Ordoveza tweets at @PicPedant …
Discussion:
@cjr and @allisoncmeier
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times built a robot to help make article tagging easier — If you write online, you know that a final, tedious part of the process is adding tags to your story before sending it out to the wider world. — Tags and keywords in articles help readers dig deeper into related stories and topics …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
NYT Now, recently made free, only had 20,000 paying subscribers at $8/month, far short of the internal 200,000 subscriber target — For New York Times, a Gamble on Giveaways — Trial and error on free digital platforms aims to win paying subscribers down the road
David Lieberman / Deadline:
AT&T announces its first wireless phone and DirecTV bundle, available August 10 for $200 — AT&T Unveils Nationwide Combo TV And Wireless Package With DirecTV — AT&T watchers have been waiting to see what it will do with DirecTV now that the companies are united, turning the telco into the world's largest pay TV provider.
Discussion:
New York Times, Re/code, The Verge, CNET and Engadget
Associated Press:
Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa found dead in capital — Espinosa, who worked for the investigative magazine Proceso, found dead in an apartment with four other people after fleeing his home state of Veracruz — A photographer for an investigative magazine who fled his home state …
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VICE News, Associated Press, Mashable, DW.COM, euronews, Reuters, Voice of America, Fox News, KRGV-TV, NPR, Sputnik International and BREITBART.COM
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Relativity Media bankruptcy docs show it posted a loss over last 3 years: $23M on $506M in revenue in 2014, $135M on $379M in 2013, $85M on $331M in 2012 — New Relativity Details: Studio Lost $135 Million in 2013 (Exclusive) — As the Relativity Media bankruptcy continues to play out …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Washington Post's Knowledge Map, which provides context within articles, and how it could work in the future — How The Washington Post built — and will be building on — its “Knowledge Map” feature — Say you're reading a long story — one that picks up on a lot …
Discussion:
@storyneedle and @swatigauri
Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt court postpones Al Jazeera journalists' retrial verdict again, now set for August 29 — Egypt court postpones Al-Jazeera English verdict to Aug. 29 — CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Sunday again postponed announcing a verdict in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists …
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@mffahmy11, Al Jazeera English, Cairo Post, Agence France-Presse and Reuters
Bill Carter / Hollywood Reporter:
How Jon Stewart Changed Media (and Made Megyn Kelly Cry) — On Nov. 4, 2008, the night Barack Obama was elected president, I was sitting with the audience of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in its studio on the west side of Manhattan. No one would have been gobsmacked by the rooting interests …
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New York Times