Mediagazer: Why Are There So Many Women in Public Relations? (Olga Khazan/The Atlantic Online)

1:31 PM ET, August 11, 2014

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Why BuzzFeed Is Launching Its Own Hollywood Studio — VC firm Andreesen Horowitz invests $50 million in Internet-media company — Are you ready for “Listicle: The Movie”? — BuzzFeed, the Internet-media company best known for its shareable list-based articles, is expanding across multiple vectors …

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Laura Kosann / The New Potato:
BuzzFeed's Founding Editor Peggy Wang on the future of digital media and how she consumes it

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Producer Michael Shamberg and comedian Jordan Peele join BuzzFeed's new movie unit as advisers

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David Carr / New York Times:

Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures — A year ago last week, it seemed as if print newspapers might be on the verge of a comeback, or at least on the brink of, well, survival. — Jeff Bezos, an avatar of digital innovation as the founder of Amazon …

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Harper's Publisher Standing Firm in His Defense of Print and Paywall — When John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's Magazine and a zealous promoter of the virtues of print journalism, sits down at his desk to write, he has three options — a typewriter, an ancient beige PC and a modern Apple desktop computer.

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Greg Gilman / The Wrap:

Los Angeles Times Names Austin Beutner New CEO and Publisher — Beutner succeeds Eddy W. Hartenstein, who was the Times publisher for six years — Austin Beutner, the civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker, has been named the new publisher and chief executive officer …

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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:

Why Are There So Many Women in Public Relations? — The field is nearly two-thirds female. Is it because of a lack of better options—or is it, in fact, the best possible option? — About a decade ago, Adriana Sol was helping design ads in Miami Beach when she realized …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Amanda Meade / Guardian:

News Corp slams Australian Press Council and its chairman — The Australian says it has lost confidence in the self-regulatory body over a column about late Labor senator Arthur Gietzelt — News Corp's The Australian has attacked the Australian Press Council and its chairman, Julian Disney …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Maureen Dowd joins N.Y.T. Magazine ahead of ‘major redesign’ — Maureen Dowd is joining the staff of The New York Times Magazine in a move that brings some fresh star power to the glossy Sunday supplement. — The Times also announced this morning that the magazine, helmed since …

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Jezebel:

Jezebel staff accuse Gawker of not dealing with trolls posting violent porn images in comments — We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won't Do Anything About It — Working at Gawker Media is a dream job for many of the women on staff here at Jezebel.

Tanveer Ali / Columbia Journalism Review:

Local news outlets are joining the data journalism bandwagon — Available resources don't always match the desire to analyze regional issues — A few years ago, Gene Balk noticed that numbers and statistics were increasingly becoming more available and compelling as a central subject in news stories.

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Guardian publisher defends decision to publish anti-Hamas advertisement — Full-page letter by Nobel peace laureate called on British people and political leaders to ‘stand firmly with the people of Israel’ — The publisher of the Guardian has defended its decision to run a newspaper advertisement …

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Julie Posetti / WAN-IFRA:

How the New York Times is learning lessons about digital storytelling and audience engagement as The Great War resonates through a century — The New York Times is experimenting with cutting edge 21st digital storytelling to explore the legacies of The Great War, which began in earnest 100 year ago this week.