Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:55 PM ET, August 23, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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.
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 …
Jennifer Pagliaro / Toronto Star:
Canada's National Post takes down, edits, then reposts Margaret Atwood column criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper  —  Margaret Atwood's column criticizing Stephen Harper vanishes, then returns to, National Post website  —  Senior National Post vice-president said the column had been taken …
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Google, Yahoo, and Bing are testing video ads in search results  —  ‘A gusher of money’: Google testing video ads in search results, industry sources say  —  Google is testing promoted video ads in search results, a format that could bring more brand dollars to marketing there …
Discussion: The Drum and SEO Book
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.
Christophe Deloire / Washington Post:
Iran's imprisonment of Jason Rezaian is an affront to justice  —  The writer is secretary general of Reporters Without Borders.  —  Jason Rezaian must be acquitted and freed immediately.  As the final hearing in the Iranian trial of The Post's Tehran correspondent was brought to a close Aug. 10 …
Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission  —  SORRY.  —  We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
As budget cuts force BBC to cut some of its output, it risks losing appeal or eroding quality  —  What next for the BBC?  —  With its budget squeezed by the government, the world's most famous public broadcaster will have to slim down to survive  —  The proposal for Marvellous was not entirely promising.
Discussion: @futbolsacountry
James Barron / New York Times:
Questions remain about long-term prospects for New York's Daily News after sale called off  —  Daily News Struggles to Find Its Identity After Sale Is Called Off  —  The news at The Daily News — that the owner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, had done an about-face and decided not to sell …
Michael Blanding / Nieman Reports:
The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information  —  As news cycles speed up, ‘slow’ journalists take months—even years—to report and tell in-depth stories  —  Paleontologists in Ethiopia, where journalist Paul Salopek began a seven-year walk around the world …
Abraham Tesfalul Zere / Guardian:
Profiles of Eritrean journalists who have been incarcerated without trial and not heard from for 14 years  —  'If we don't give them a voice, no one will': Eritrea's forgotten journalists, still jailed after 14 years  —  The country is ranked worst in the world for press freedom, its writers locked in secret jails.
Discussion: @tymccormick and @icijorg
Susan Crawford / Backchannel:
Cable-only presidential debates block cord cutters from politics and public discourse  —  Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax  —  If you cut the cord, you just may cut yourself off from vital political discourse.  And that's wrong.  —  This month's theatrical GOP primary debate …
Discussion: @stevenlevy and @jayrosen_nyu
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 6:55 PM ET, August 23, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
European Commission asks companies for details about Google's ad contracts and scraping as it deepens its antitrust investigation
Maira Sutton / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Hollywood and big media could derail tech industry's effort to improve TPP copyright and fair use rules
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
College media community mourns Dan Reimold, who died at 34 and who bridged gap between collegiate media and academics at his blog College Media Matters
 Earlier Picks: 
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC radio stations failing northern listeners, report says
Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax confirms 25 jobs to go from community papers while The Land loses 16 positions
Guy Patrick Cunningham / Los Angeles Review of Books:
Even with persistent commercial pressures, journalists have a responsibility to push for a higher quality of work and not to settle down