Mediagazer: Publishers or platforms? Media giants may be forced to choose (Guardian)

10:45 AM ET, July 30, 2013

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Shira Ovide / Digits:

Thomson Reuters Twitter Account Is Hacked — The main Twitter account of news outlet Thomson Reuters was taken over Monday, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army group that has hacked other news organizations. — “Earlier today @thomsonreuters was hacked,” a spokesman for the news organization said in an email late Monday.

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Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team — ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon. “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

New York Times elevates comments from below the line — As part of a series of experiments to make reaction more useful to readers, comments are placed alongside a story — The New York Times is trying something new with comments: placing key reactions alongside the story narrative.

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Kira Goldenberg / Columbia Journalism Review:

TNR asks the big journalism question — Over at The New Republic, Marc Tracy offers a helpful peek into how an ignorant Fox News interview—a religion scholar who happened to be Muslim was asked why he wrote a book about Jesus—became a “traffic bonanza” for BuzzFeed.

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast. Next up: Plex and HBO Go? — Chromecast, the streaming video adapter introduced by Google last week, is quickly gaining support from a number of media platforms. Case in point: Vimeo told us it wants to support Chromecast …

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Media, left out of the relationship — Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom. — Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen. This merger, they all say …

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

CBS and TWC Talks Break Down, But CBS Isn't Going Dark Just Yet (Updated) — CBS to go dark in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas — As it turns out, CBS won't be going dark for Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas just yet. — “At the request of CBS, we have halted going dark on their channels.

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Sharyn Jackson / The Des Moines Register:

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film — CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned. — “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …

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Guardian:

Publishers or platforms? Media giants may be forced to choose — After threats to Caroline Criado-Perez, questions raised over who is responsible for libel or abuse via Twitter and Facebook — Twitter has spent the past few days doing a good impression of a company hoping that the public outcry …

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BBC:

Google weighs 100 million takedowns — Google has received requests to remove more than 100 million links since January 2013 for web pages deemed to be in breach of copyright laws. — That is double the number it received for the whole of 2012 and a sign that publishers are stepping up their battle against internet piracy.

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