Mediagazer: How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date (Nikhil Sonnad/Quartz)

6:30 PM ET, September 27, 2015

Top News:

Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:

The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards — LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddie Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …

Discussion: The Center for Public …, Baltimore Sun, FishbowlNY, CUNY Graduate School … and ONA15

Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:

Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …

Discussion: The Verge, Digital Trends, BetaNews, @chrismessina, @mikeisaac, @davewiner, @film_girl, @codeblue87, @benmullin, @antderosa, @lavrusik, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Mashable, Engadget and Fortune

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.

Discussion: Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, @pkafka, @xpangler, The Next Web and BetaBoston

Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:

How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date — This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of — The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet.

Discussion: @heikkiisotalo

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Esquire's new standalone archive features 50K articles going back to 1933 — How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive — Esquire's first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway.

Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:

Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists — While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports. The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Wrap, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Telegraph, The Times of Israel, Mediaite and Guardian

Libby Plummer / Yahoo! News:

BBC To Launch ‘iPlayer For Children’ Tablet App In 2016 — The BBC is set to release a dedicated version of its iPlayer app designed for children in 2016. — BBC iPlayer for Children will come in the form of a tablet app for iPad and Android devices and will make it easier for youngsters …

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, The Drum, Engadget, Pocket-lint and The Next Web

Robert Rosso / VICE:

A federal inmate details his efforts to work as as a journalist from inside prision — America Incarcerated: My Struggle to Work as a Journalist Inside Prison — VICE is exploring America's prison system in the week leading up to our special report with President Obama for HBO.

Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:

Apple Music broke Clayton Christensen's rules for disruptive innovation, trying to please old customers as well as new ones — Apple Music's Functionality Failure — They broke Clayton Christensen's rule. The other night, I decided to play some MP3s. Retro, I know.

Discussion: @benthompson, @dasan, @vajrang, @felixsalmon and Business Insider

Jo Ellison / Financial Times:

Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks — Vogue goes viral — What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital? Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:

Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights — Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own — Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs — Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide

Discussion: Forbes, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and Business Insider

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads, playlists in 2016 to more directly compete with YouTube — Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. — Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon's Twitch division …

Discussion: Fortune, Forbes, The Daily Dot, The Verge, The Verge and Engadget

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 6:30 PM ET, September 27, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Who's Hiring in Media?

Deputy Ed. - Gen. Assignment Desk, DC — WaPo

EU Technology Reporter, Brussels — Bloomberg

Breaking News Reporter, NY — Guardian US

Harrisburg Reporter, PA — PCBC

Senior Editor - Styles, NY — NYT

Part-time Editor, Remote — Techmeme

Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — Newsweek

Assistant Digital Editor, MA — Boston Globe

Senior Editor - Visuals (Temporary), DC — NPR

South Reporter, GA/Remote — ProPublica

Private Capital Reporter, London — FT

Staff Writer, MI — Watershed Voice

Articles Editor, CA — SF Standard

Pharma Reporter, Remote US — Endpoints

Metro Reporter, TN — Daily Memphian

Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — EdSource

Politics Reporter, Brussels — Politico

Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — Cap Times

Social Strategy Editor, NY — WSJ

Business Reporter, TX — Fort Worth Report

Senior Narrative Editor, CA — Cloud Chamber

News Correspondent, MS — Magnolia Tribune

Accountability Reporter, NC — Charlotte Observer

Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — The 74

Housing Reporter, OK — The Frontier

Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — Outlier

Writer/Editor, Remote — Mediaite

Political Reporter, TX — Courier Newsroom

Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — Keene Sentinel

Education Lab Editor, WA — Seattle Times

Staff Writer, MA/Remote — Tech Advisor

State Worker Reporter, CA — Sacramento Bee

Executive Editor, NM — Searchlight

Reporter, NC — NC Newsline

Add your company here

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:

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fusion Joins Sling TV Lineup

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of millennials' news reading habits shows majority don't pay for news and many use a subscription service paid for by someone else

Discussion: American Press Institute, Poynter, Associated Press, MediaPost, @mathewi and @nathanjurgenson

Steven Musil / CNET:
CNN partners with NextVR to offer VR livestream of Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate

Discussion: Re/code, CNN, Variety, Mashable, International Business Times, Popular Mechanics, NewscastStudio, Engadget, The Week, Mediaite, AndroidHeadlines.com, TIME and BetaNews

BuzzFeed:
Leaked documents reveal Ecuador's president used almost $4.7M from intelligence budget to remove derogatory content from Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion

Discussion: The Verge, @willardfoxton and Bitcoinist.net

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with SF Chronicle editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper on experimentation, crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers

Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Earlier Picks:

Associated Press:
EU urges Thai military government to respect freedom of speech and democracy as it drafts new constitution

Discussion: Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post and ThaiVisa News

Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, doesn't generate revenue from 40.2% of subscribers

Discussion: Fortune, Music Ally, GlobalCapital, Music Week, ChinaPost.com.tw and Interactive Investor

Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Netflix announces in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad, offers same monthly rate as on the web

Discussion: Digital Trends, Engadget, Variety, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
AP, other media outlets ask Florida judge to unseal records in Hulk Hogan suit against Gawker

Discussion: UPROXX, @benmullin, 411MANIA, Cageside Seats and Poynter

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist

Discussion: Adweek, AdExchanger, @hardaway, @eringriffith, Lifehacker, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Sky News, Macworld, The Verge, The Awl, AppleInsider, @moral_hazard and @eringriffith

From Techmeme:

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that the Chinese company is considering selling a majority stake in TikTok US

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

Sister Sites:

Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web

memeorandum
What US political commentators are discussing online right now

WeSmirch
The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page