Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:50 AM ET, September 4, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
IAB Explores Its Options to Fight Ad Blockers, Including Lawsuits  —  Trade Org Has Held Two Summits This Summer to Map a Course of Action  —  As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry's more prominent organizing bodies.
Les Hinton / British Journalism Review:
Former Dow Jones CEO and News International executive chairman responds to Rupert Murdoch's critics  —  Life with Murdoch, Les Hinton  —  Rupert Murdoch's longest-serving lieutenant staggers under the weight of books written about his old boss More than half a century ago …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Mail Online sues Gawker and former employee for defamation for publishing writer's first-person account of workplace practices  —  Mail Online sues Gawker for defamation over first-person piece  —  On March 4, Gawker published a first-person piece by James King, a former worker for the Mail Online …
Celeste Lecompte / Nieman Reports:
How automation helps reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news  —  Automation in the Newsroom  —  How algorithms are helping reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news  —  Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press …
Discussion: MediaShift, @tedgioia and @ap_corpcomm
Marissa Newman / The Times of Israel:
Israel bans journalists at public broadcasting organization from expressing opinions in newscasts as broadcaster reorganizes, dropping TV tax  —  State broadcast journalists condemn ban on expressing political opinions  —  Reporter slams ‘shameful’ clause in new law; Press Council …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: difficulty of making deals with CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox has delayed Apple TV's launch  —  Local TV Creates Hurdle to Streaming  —  The difficulty of lining up deals to offer CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox programming is one reason Apple has decided to push back its Web-TV service
Discussion: @gerryfsmith
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon buys web and mobile video conversion company Elemental Technologies for a reported $500M  —  Amazon to Buy Video Reformatter Elemental Technologies  —  Deal could help Amazon become central player in rush to provide consumers video on all types of devices
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Journalists ‘pushed away’ from ‘distressing scenes’ involving migrants at Hungarian train station  —  about Journalists ‘pushed away’ from ‘distressing scenes’ involving migrants at Hungarian train station- Comments  —  Journalists have reported being “pushed away” by police from …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Sudanese journalist arrested in Saudi Arabia, faces deportation  —  New York, September 3, 2015—A Sudanese journalist has been detained for more than a month without charge in Saudi Arabia, according to news reports.  Waleed al-Hussein al-Dood could face deportation to Sudan …
Discussion: Sudan, Guardian and @cpjmena
Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
Al Jazeera English builds Slack bots that share breaking news alerts with staff, give traffic analytics, and recommend related stories with keywords  —  The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English  —  When the Virginia shooting happened last week …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Spotify updates privacy policy with clearer language after backlash  —  Spotify is overhauling its privacy policy today with plainer language that should be readable to the average human — not just lawyers.  The streaming service found itself amid a furor last month after its users complained …
Jim Romenesko:
Robyn Tomlin leaves Pew Research Center to become Dallas Morning News managing editor  —  Robyn Tomlin, Pew Research Center vice president/digital and communications, is joining the Dallas Morning News as managing editor.  The editor's memo:
Discussion: Biz Beat Blog, @jimbrady and @ckrewson
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:50 AM ET, September 4, 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: 
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
US Copyright Office's online registration has been down since last Friday, part of a larger computer failure at Library of Congress
Discussion: @xor, Federal Computer Week and @xor
 Earlier Picks: 
Jennifer Brandel / Medium:
News organizations should include the public in the reporting process allowing questions to replace focus on post-publishing comments
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Heather Chaplin, director of The New School's journalism-and-design undergraduate program
Discussion: @aejmc
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The New York Times' Anemona Hartocollis travels with and documents a group of migrants and refugees as they move through Europe
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Publishers will be able to determine when smartphone users are bored and push content at them
Discussion: Engadget, Fortune and pielot.org
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page