Top News:
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Interview with The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on the news org's finances, digital rivals, Jill Abramson, more — Dean Baquet: ‘My goal is to keep the number of reporters really high at the New York Times’ — The NYT executive editor on his paper's global appeal …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Washington Post's Jason Rezaian sentenced in Iran; verdict is unknown — A verdict has been issued in the espionage trial of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian — (CNN)An Iranian court has handed down a verdict in the espionage trial of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian …
Discussion:
New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Haaretz, Guardian, Mashable, Reuters, @westwingreport, Washington Post, Associated Press and The Wrap
New York Times:
Source: Apple disables Apple News in China, likely to avoid requirement to censor content — Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China — HONG KONG — Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Dish and Tegna reach a multiyear carriage deal, ending 24-hour blackout on 46 TV stations in 38 markets — Dish Network, Tegna Reach Deal Ending Station Blackout in 38 Markets — Dish Network is restoring 46 Tegna-owned network affiliate stations to its lineup, ending a more than 24-hour blackout in 38 markets.
Discussion:
Business Wire and The Wrap
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Inside Boston Globe's niche website strategy as it plans to launch its third standalone news site Stat on health, medicine, and life sciences this fall — Inside The Boston Globe's niche website strategy — Publishers have traditionally heard “niche” and thought small.
Discussion:
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Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Cinemagraphs, still photos with motion in one part only, are becoming increasingly popular — 'Rich man's GIF': Stock photography sites rush to the cinemagraph craze — Cinemagraphs are becoming ubiquitous on social media, and stock image agencies are looking to capitalize on their popularity.
Discussion:
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
With Moments, Twitter reinvented the newspaper and has the potential to be the best newspaper in the world — Twitter's Moment — I try to save the most over-used of clichés for special moments, and that's exactly what this week feels like for Twitter.
Discussion:
BuzzFeed, @jeffweiner, TechCrunch, Medium and @waxpancake
Sandip Roy / Firstpost:
Images on social media, some fake, encourage communal violence and feed media distrust in India — Welcome to Digital India: Communal revolution will be WhatsApped from Muzaffarnagar to Dadri — We are not a country of beggars and elephants and snakecharmers. — This is a new India of Whatsapp and smartphones and MyGov.in.
Amar Toor / The Verge:
Eight-year-old video-on-demand service MUBI has survived in spite of Netflix by curating a selection of classic films and art house releases for $4.99 per month — How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film — In February 2007, about a month after Netflix began streaming movies online …
Discussion:
Fast Company and Rolling Stone
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Longest Shortest Time lets new parents record and share their own stories for its podcast — The Longest Shortest Time brings listeners' voices into its podcast with a dedicated app — New parenthood is a time of sleep deprivation and uncertainty. Hillary Frank tells a story …
Vanessa Quirk / TOWCenter:
How Lore, an indie podcast on real life scary stories, reached 2M downloads within five months — The Curious Success of Lore: A Case Study — If you've been following my blog posts, you know I have been featuring interviews with key players in the podcasting sphere — from Gimlet's Matt Leiber to This American Life's Seth Lind.