Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:35 PM ET, October 1, 2017

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Jonathan Kandell / New York Times:
S.I. Newhouse Jr., Publishing Icon Who Ran Condé Nast, Dies at 89  —  S.I. Newhouse Jr., who as the owner of The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest and other magazines wielded vast influence over American culture, fashion and social taste, died on Sunday at his home, a family spokesman said.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Projects supporting local journalism are increasing, showing that funders, foundations, and news consumers are taking the crisis in local news seriously  —  The situation is sickeningly familiar to anyone who works on — or reads — a metropolitan daily newspaper, whether it's in New Orleans …
RELATED:
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Center for Cooperative Media catalogs 44 ongoing collaborations across 500+ newsrooms, mostly in the US but also in Europe  —  Among the cool collaborative journalism projects of the last couple years: the Panama Papers, Electionland.  The Center for Cooperative Media …
Dhrumil Mehta / FiveThirtyEight:
Compared to other US natural disasters in the past few weeks, Hurricane Maria has had less coverage online and on TV  —  While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted) has been occupied with other things: a health care bill that failed to pass …
RELATED:
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Reporters face damaged infrastructure, spotty electricity and phone service, and difficulty finding gas, food, and water while covering Puerto Rico
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg's “both sides” argument is a flimsy defense of Facebook's failure to limit the spread of systematic misinformation during 2016 election  —  Responding to President Trump's tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook …
Tim Wu / Knight First Amendment Institute:
The First Amendment fails to protect speech from new tactics like information flooding and online harassment, especially when government aligns with trolls  —  The First Amendment was a dead letter for much of American history.  Unfortunately, there is reason to fear it is entering a new period of political irrelevance.
Bill Shea / Crain's Detroit Business:
Founders of The Athletic, a network of ad-free paywalled sports sites with $48/year subscriptions, say they need 10,000-12,000 subs per city to be profitable  —  - The Athletic Detroit launched in June  — Co-founder says site could be profitable within a year  — Paywall site is hiring major journalists
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Apple's video content strategy: slow and deliberate approach led by experienced ex-TV execs who pass on most scripts and bid on high profile shows  —  The world's biggest company is officially taking meetings as everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Steven Spielberg salivates over selling the first big show.
Jacqueline Williams / New York Times:
Australian Parliament expected to pass legislation eliminating separation of print and broadcast companies; critics cite consolidation and political favors  —  SYDNEY, Australia — Most of Australia's newspapers, radio stations and television broadcasters are controlled by only a handful of owners …
Tony Romm / Recode:
Sources: Facebook is sharing its data with Google as the search giant reviews potential Russian meddling in the 2016 election  —  Google is also set to meet with congressional investigators in the coming weeks.  —  Facebook has shared some details about the Russian-operated profiles …
RELATED:
CNNMoney:
Sources: Russian Internet Research Agency linked to one fake Twitter account and one fake Facebook account using “blacktivist” name; FB account had 360K likes
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
DC firm FactSquared removes 15 hours of audio of Howard Stern interviews with Trump from YouTube, SoundCloud after DMCA notice, keeps transcripts on Factba.se  —  “This is the only public version of a massive quarter century trove of interviews.”  —  A Washington, DC startup that recently posted …
Discussion: Techdirt and @johnmcquaid
Charlotte Gao / The Diplomat:
China's Weibo announces it is hiring 1000 “supervisors” to censor content on the service  —  Weibo asks that each supervisor censor no less than 200 pieces of content per month  —  As Chinese authorities are fiercely cracking down on the internet, China's top social media platform Weibo doing its best to stay in line.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 8:35 PM ET, October 1, 2017.

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: 
Michael Zhang / PetaPixel:
Getty Images bans images retouched to change body shape or weight as of October 1 in response to French law requiring labels on retouched photos
 Earlier Picks: 
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Chartbeat survey shows Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles deliver promised faster load times but ad revenue and audience increases remain in question
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
How Politifact staffers worked to build trust with Tulsa Republican leaders by describing sourcing methods and more in a meeting
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with Gretchen Carlson on life after bringing down Roger Ailes, her advocacy work, new book, and Donald Trump
Discussion: FTVLive