Top News:
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump will skip Fox News debate on Thursday — Rewriting the book of campaign rules once more, Donald Trump is skipping Thursday's GOP debate and attacking the Fox News Channel. Instead of attending the debate, “We'll have an event here in Iowa, with potentially another network …
Discussion:
New York Magazine, New York Times, @gabrielsherman, The Huffington Post, @realdonaldtrump, TIME, @realdonaldtrump, New York Times, Mediaite, Fox News, TVNewser, Guardian, Washington Post, Guardian, New York Times, The Hill, TVNewser, FishbowlDC, Politico, NBC News, @mlcalderone, Business Insider, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Slate, Politico, TheBlaze.com, bookforum.com, Guardian, @newday, Washington Post, Forbes, Fox News, The New York Observer, Washington Post, Mother Jones, @gabrielsherman, NPR, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Wrap, @hadas_gold, The Week, Inside Cable News, @hadas_gold, @oliverdarcy, USA Today, TheBlaze.com, CBS Philly, Deadline and Business Insider
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras — Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action camera for the first time.
Discussion:
GoPro, CNET, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Guardian, Wired, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, Periscope, Variety, Gizmodo, USA Today, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Forbes, GeekWire, SocialTimes, PCMag UK and Adweek
Business Wire:
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction — Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction
Discussion:
Variety, TVSpy, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily, TVSpy, Deadline, Radio & Television …, Dallas Business Journal, Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, Advanced Television, FierceCable, WBAY-TV, Associated Press, New York Times, WHTM-TV, Wall Street Journal, Biz Beat Blog, Des Moines Register, Bloomberg Business, RTTNews and NASDAQ.com
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company — Corbis, the photography archive owned by Bill Gates that includes some of the most famous pictures ever made, has sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company. — The sale gives the new owner …
Sridhar Pappu / New York Magazine:
How New York Daily News editor-in-chief James Rich uses newspaper covers on Twitter to attract digital readers — How the New York Daily News Became Twitter's Tabloid — The paper is reinventing the attention-grabbing, old-school front page as an agenda-setter on social media.
Discussion:
@sridharpappu, @alldigitocracy and @patkiernan
Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera sues Egypt over arrests, raids and seizures — CAIRO (AP) — Al-Jazeera is suing Egypt over its crackdown on the Qatar-owned broadcaster's activists and journalists following the 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the network said Wednesday.
Discussion:
Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Fulton News, metronews.ca, ICSID, The Global Herald and ghanaweb.com
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
YouTube now lets video creators use Donation Cards, which overlay the page, to help raise money for charities directly — YouTube's New Donation Cards Help Video Creators Raise Money For Charities — YouTube just made it a lot easier for its users in the U.S. to use their videos to drive donations to nonprofit organizations.
Discussion:
YouTube Creator Blog, Digital Trends, Tubefilter, NDTV Gadgets360.com, BuzzFeed, MediaNama and The Next Web
Reuters:
Sources: Apple building paywall system to let publishers offer subscription content through the News app — Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, PCMag UK, TechnoBuffalo, Telegraph, Digital Trends, Net Worked, The Next Web, Engadget, iMore, Guardian, The Wrap, 9to5Mac, mUmBRELLA, App Advice, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge and 9to5Mac
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Publishers like Mic reinvent the homepage, using it for experimentation and brand-building — The publisher homepage is making a comeback — With the rise of social and search, the publisher homepage was left for dead. — Slowly but surely, the homepage is making something of a comeback, albeit in a new form.
Thanks:@steverubel
Agence France-Presse:
Turkey prosecutors seek life terms for two anti-Erdogan journalists — Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish prosecutors demanded life sentences for two top journalists from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on charges of revealing state secrets with a report that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government tried …
Discussion:
Associated Press, Index on Censorship, Hurriyet Daily News, Hurriyet Daily News and TodaysZaman
Financial Times:
Ministers retreat from move to weaken freedom of information law — Ministers are retreating from efforts to weaken freedom of information legislation after strong opposition made it likely they would lose a legislative battle to enact the changes. — The FOI rules, which enshrine public access …
Discussion:
Guardian, Manx Radio and Financial Times
Medium Legal:
Medium blocked by at least some Malaysian ISPs, including Telekom Malaysia, after declining to take down post by Sarawak Report — The Post Stays Up — As some of you have noted, Medium's now blocked in Malaysia. — Here's what happened. — The Sarawak Report's website has been blocked in Malaysia since summer 2015.
Discussion:
The Next Web, @jilliancyork, @bytebot, @medium, Malaysia Chronicle, @hafidzbaharom, @sarawak_report and @sweetnlowling