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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
A Three-Way Mostly Civilized Family Contest To Become The Next Publisher Of The Times — The issue of succession is a difficult matter not just for family-run businesses but for the families that run them. Take the Murdochs, for instance. Or the Binghams, the Kentucky newspaper clan that imploded in the 1980s.
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Politico, Reynolds Center, FishbowlNY, Talking Points Memo, CNNMoney, @gabrielsherman, @king_kaufman, @jayrosen_nyu, @leighwsj, @felixsalmon, @jayrosen_nyu and @mgsiegler
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Post-UVA scandal and amidst falling newsstand sales, Rolling Stone tries to expand further into digital — Rolling Stone Moves Beyond the Fray — Gus Wenner is 25, not much older than his father, Jann S. Wenner, was when he started Rolling Stone in 1967.
Discussion:
Poynter, CNNMoney and @felixsalmon
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Behind Neetzan Zimmerman's Facebook strategy at The Hill, which has contributed to the huge rise of social engagement and traffic over the past six months — ‘I am the social’: Neetzan Zimmerman brings a little bit of Gawker to The Hill — Neetzan Zimmerman is having his comeback moment.
Guardian:
Twitter blocks access to political transparency organisation Politwoops — Group that archives deleted tweets from legislators has its access to social network shut off — Twitter has shut off access to 31 accounts that chronicled and archived the deleted tweets of politicians, diplomats and embassies around the world.
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Open State Foundation, VentureBeat, The Next Web, BetaNews, @chrisbrooke, Infosecurity Magazine, @hilarybeaumont, The Verge and Boing Boing
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
In U.S stock market fall, media companies including CBS and Time Warner drop 2.3% and 2.8% respectively — U.S. Media Stocks Tumble Amid “Black Monday” Carnage — Disney, CBS, Time Warner and Sony were among the entertainment stocks taking a big hit on Monday.
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
A Wall Street Journal reporter discusses her experience being labeled an American spy by Iranian state-run media — Smeared by Iran's State-Run Media: A Journal Reporter's Story — Veteran Iranian-American foreign correspondent Farnaz Fassihi now finds herself targeted as a spy by mouthpieces for Tehran's regime
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Despite upsurge in mobile traffic, publishers say mobile ad dollars are lagging — Mobile Readers Abound; the Ads, Not So Much — Traditional and online publishers are struggling to cash in on their surging mobile traffic, raising questions about their future growth as consumers increasingly turn …
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu and American Press Institute
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
European media giant investments in online video networks are growing fast — European media join push to support online video groups — Online video networks are receiving an influx of capital from European investors as the companies behind some of the most popular content on YouTube seek to reach bigger global audiences.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Netflix Hitches With SoftBank For Japan Launch — Next week's launch of streaming video service Netflix in Japan will be boosted by a major partnership with Softbank Corp. The two companies may also be involved in local content. — With 37 million cellphone customers …
Discussion:
Netflix, Bloomberg Business and Hollywood Reporter
Steven Johnson / New York Times:
How creative work in music, TV, movies, and books persists and often thrives in the post-Napster era, contrary to initial fears by some — The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't — In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art.
Discussion:
@skydylanrobbins, @freakonometrics, Future of Music Coalition, @borthwick, @ahmed, @stevenbjohnson and Techdirt
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A Spanish-language website is working to document killings of undocumented immigrants — 31-year-old Rubén García Villalpando was shot twice in the chest this past March, after a traffic stop that police reports claimed turned into an altercation. Villalpando was unarmed at the time.
Katrin Kuntz / Spiegel Online:
How a 19-year-old from Amsterdam became one of the foremost cartographers of the ISIS conflict — The Dutch Teen Who Maps the Jihadists — One of the foremost cartographers of the Islamic State conflict is a 19-year-old from Amsterdam. Now that he's graduated from high school …
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