Mediagazer: How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts (The Nation)

9:05 AM ET, September 19, 2015

Top News:

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Marco Arment pulls ad-blocking app Peace, the top paid app for 36 hours, citing the unfairness of indiscriminate ad blocking — Just doesn't feel good — I've pulled Peace from the App Store. I'm sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days.

The Atlantic:

Mobile apps were already destroying online ad revenue, and ad blockers are just another, short-term threat — The Allure of an Ad-Free Internet — Well, that happened fast. After 36 hours as the No. 1 paid app in the App store, the programmer Marco Arment is pulling his ad-blocker, Peace, from the market.

Discussion: Fortune, Salon, Continuations, New Statesman, Doc Searls Weblog, Storify and Wall Street Journal

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top The App Store

Discussion: Adweek, Marketing Land, Quartz, The Verge, @dannysullivan, Ad Age, Digiday, Fortune, Gizmodo, Tech Insider, Cult of Mac, @intcontent, Plagiarism Today, AdExchanger and Re/code

Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal:

Tribune Publishing lowers guidance for 2015 earnings, citing Southern California results, days after it fired LA Times publisher — Tribune Publishing Lowers Guidance — Company cites results in Southern California — Tribune Publishing Co. lowered its 2015 guidance, mainly due to results in Southern California.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Business Wire

Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Tribune Publishing board says company is ‘deeply committed’ to California papers

Discussion: Nieman Lab, Poynter, LA Observed, MyNewsLA.com, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, investor.tribpub.com, @jayrosen_nyu, LA Observed, Chicago Tribune and @joepompeo

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Sources: Google to announce Chromecast Audio device to plug in to speakers September 29 — Exclusive: Chromecast Audio, codenamed ‘Hendrix,’ is a separate device & made to WiFi-enable your speakers — We told you earlier today about the 2nd generation Chromecast, scheduled to be launched later this month.

Discussion: The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Business Insider, The Verge, Android Central and Pocket-lint

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Leaked documents show second-gen Chromecast has new backdrop feeds, improved Wi-Fi, “Fast Play”, to be announced September 29

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Google set to announce this month that Spotify will gain Chromecast support alongside new device

Discussion: App Advice, TrustedReviews, Music Business Worldwide, TechnoBuffalo, Music Ally, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK, Fortune, Engadget, SlashGear and The Verge

The Nation:

How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts — The Spanish Media Are the Worst in Europe. These Upstarts Are Trying to Change That. — A broad range of leftist media projects committed to democracy and transparency have flourished in recent years.

Jared Malsin / New York Times:

Egypt Bans News Coverage of Killings of Mexican Tourists — CAIRO — Egypt's chief prosecutor issued a ban on news media coverage in the case of a weekend attack by the security forces that killed 12 people, including eight Mexican tourists and their Egyptian guides.

Discussion: Foreign Policy, allAfrica.com, International Business Times, Sputnik International, Egyptian Streets and FederalNewsRadio.com

Leslie T. Chang / The New York Review of Books: Egypt's media moves from open dissent to support for repressive government policies, reflecting public attitudes

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Layoffs total about 50 staffers at New York Daily News in sports, business, and features — More Daily News layoffs as newsroom keeps bleeding — The Daily News raised its weekday price from 75 cents to $1.25 last summer. — The Daily News swung the ax for a third day …

Discussion: Politico, New York Post, @dchangnyt, Politico, FishbowlNY, Deadline, CNNMoney and bookforum.com

Ceylan Yeginsu / New York Times:

Opposition media in Turkey is being silenced through protests, deportations, arrests, and raids — Opposition Journalists Under Assault in Turkey — ISTANBUL — Hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out against a prominent newspaper here, an angry mob of his supporters descended …

Discussion: Al Bawaba, PanARMENIAN.Net, @kenroth and @nytimesworld

TodaysZaman: Turkish journalist Cüneyt Özdemir investigated for disseminating terrorism propaganda in interview with detained Gezi Park protestor

Dave Winer / Scripting News:

Separate efforts by Apple, Facebook, and Google to own news distribution will lead to Balkanization, but it could be prevented if Facebook openly embraced RSS — Avoiding balkanization in news — Balkanization is a “pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process …

Discussion: @davewiner, @davewiner and @_subnet

Tom Knox / Columbus Business First:

Dispatch Media Group in Columbus, Ohio, cutting 63 jobs three months after purchase by New Media Investment Group — Columbus Dispatch cutting 63 jobs, with more on the way — The Columbus Dispatch is cutting 63 jobs, three months after the newspaper and related holdings became part of GateHouse Media.

Discussion: The Columbus Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch and @alanjudd3000

Committee to Protect Journalists:

In Azerbaijan, Meydan TV reporters harassed, jailed — New York, September 18, 2015—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harassment of independent news outlet Meydan TV by Azerbaijani authorities. This week Shirin Abbasov, a reporter for the outlet, was imprisoned …

Discussion: World Bulletin, Index on Censorship and Index on Censorship

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Q&A with Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on investing in journalism, print, and the BBC — Ian Hislop declined to sign pro-BBC ‘luvvies’ letter' because he would have looked an ‘overpaid wanker’ — Ian Hislop has just returned from a two-week holiday to find - as is customary at Private Eye …

Discussion: Guardian and Financial Times