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.
Discussion:
Reynolds Center, @profcarroll, @aripap, @michelemclellan, @jason_kint, @tomewing and @bluechoochoo
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 …
Discussion:
@davidfolkenflik, @jackshafer, @peterjukes, @jamesrbuk, @peterjukes, @leshinton, @peterjukes, @leshinton, @waynesmith1971, @piersmorgan, Guido Fawkes and Jon Slattery
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 …
Discussion:
Gawker, The New York Observer, Adweek, Business Insider, @learmonth, New York Post, bookforum.com, Mediaite and @nickconfessore
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
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Rights groups call on Twitter to reverse its ban on Politwoops accounts — A coalition of rights groups from more than a dozen different countries have posted an open letter to Twitter TWTR , asking that the company restore access to more than 30 Politwoops accounts it recently blocked …
Discussion:
accessnow.org, TechCrunch, The Hill and Business Insider
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon — E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts — Prices rise, but revenue takes a hit — When the world's largest publishers …
Discussion:
Consumerist and Bookseller News
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
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 …
Discussion:
Guardian, Associated Press, Haaretz and Jerusalem Post
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
Discussion:
TechCrunch, USA Today, KGW-TV, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, VideoInk, GeekWire, Forbes, Variety and VentureBeat
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 …
Discussion:
@skynewsbreak, @lindseyhilsum and @lindseyhilsum
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 …
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 …