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Dan Levin / New York Times:
Profile of The Michigan Daily, the university's student newspaper in Ann Arbor, which has been the only printed local paper in the city for more than a decade — As more than 2,000 newspapers across the country have closed or merged, student journalists from Michigan to Arizona have stepped in to fill the void.
Discussion:
@marthasjones_, @jcstearns, @hg_watson, @dpd_, @ennisnyt, @rkobell, @stephepburn, @alpaul, @samhoisington, @timmckayum, @revericatcheson, @benjaminsraven, @marclacey, @showusyourwork, @jswatz and @jswatz
Matthew Ball:
As Hollywood continues to scale with more TV and film assets, no studio has an integrated gaming division today, which ignores a fast growing media category — With all the individual differences from player to player, the TV and film industry has had a consistent response to the challenges …
Discussion:
@ballmatthew and @ballmatthew
Financial Times:
Sources: Thomson Reuters hired an executive search firm to draw up a shortlist of internal and external candidates to succeed the current CEO Jim Smith — Thomson Reuters has begun the search for a chief executive to succeed Jim Smith, who has led the $34bn professional information group since 2012.
Discussion:
@arashmassoudi
Isaac Alter / Center for Journalism Ethics:
Interview with Joel Christopher, executive editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, on how to report on extremism without spreading hateful messages — Journalists have always had to grapple with how to cover extremists and hate-filled ideologies. But in today's digital world …
Discussion:
@spj_tweets, @niemanreports and @uwjournethics
Max Willens / Digiday:
As podcasting becomes dominated by a handful of platforms, ad automation seems inevitable given the difficulty of scaling program-specific, host-read ads — The IAB's fifth annual podcast upfront could be the last one where platforms do not dominate in the proceedings.
Discussion:
@nwquah and @bmorrissey
International Center for Journalists:
ICFJ global study: ~33% of newsrooms have fact-checkers, ~66% distribute content in at least four formats, 50%+ of journalists use digital fact-checking tools — Journalists are increasingly turning to digital technology to help address daunting challenges such as the spread of misinformation …
Discussion:
@justinarenstein, @justinarenstein, @mediacareerngr and @hrvenkatesh
Hollywood Reporter:
Source: Quentin Tarantino declines to recut his movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, after China's regulators blocked the film's release date of Oct. 25 — The country's regulators pulled the film from the schedule a week before its release on Oct. 25. — Quentin Tarantino has no intention …
Matthew Doran / ABC:
Major Australian newspapers black out text on their front pages Monday to protest secrecy laws passed over past two years, after raids of journalists in June — The nation's media companies have redacted their front pages to highlight the constraints on media organisations under strict national security legislation.
Discussion:
The Guardian, Herald Sun, @withmeaa, @jpwarren, The Age, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian and @julieposetti
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Publishers like Forbes, Reuters, WSJ, and Bloomberg are growing their events businesses for sponsors and building their own event franchises to boost revenues — Trade shows, conferences and summit events are nothing new for business-to-business publishers, who have a tight grip on catering to professional audiences.
Discussion:
@rafat
Financial Times:
Sources: Verizon is seeking potential buyers for HuffPost, as it continues to shed digital businesses from its costly acquisition of Yahoo and AOL — Verizon is sounding out potential buyers for the HuffPost website, in the latest phase of the US telecoms group's retreat from the digital media business.
Discussion:
@janinegibson, @jayrosen_nyu, TechCrunch, Fox Business, @rafat, @timcast, @arrington, @rafat and The Wrap
Mat Ombler / GamesIndustry.biz:
A deep dive into music licensing in games, where the wrong type of licenses or expired ones may force developers to stop sales or game releases on new platforms — Developers risk having their games removed from sale due to expired licenses — experts from music and games weigh in on the problem
Discussion:
@matombler, @gibiz, @gibiz and @naohigo
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Condé Nast Italia releases its first magazine in the US, the food and wine focused La Cucina Italiana — The recipe-focused magazine has been designed for Americans — Condé Nast, which has long taken magazines established in the U.S. and introduced them into new international markets …
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