Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:15 PM ET, June 8, 2017

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Al Jazeera Media Network says it is under cyberattack, following Tuesday's revelation that Russian hackers may have breached the Qatar state news agency  —  Al Jazeera Media Network was in the midst of a cyberattack on Thursday, Al Jazeera News said on Twitter.
RELATED:
Kevin Ponniah / BBC:
Experts believe that the current diplomatic crisis in Qatar imperils Al Jazeera, which may not be closed but whose editorial policies could change  —  Qatar's Al Jazeera media network has undoubtedly put the tiny Gulf state on the international map.  —  It is the showpiece of the oil …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Comey says he authorized a “close friend” at Columbia Law School to leak the content of his Trump memo to the press to prompt a special counsel investigation  —  Shortly after his dismissal as head of the FBI, James Comey authorized “a close friend” to leak the contents of his memos …
RELATED:
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Comey reinforced or confirmed the bulk of recent mainstream reporting on Trump, but denounced one NYT story as almost entirely inaccurate in his testimony  —  Flawed: yes.  Fake: no. And, sometimes, extremely useful.  —  That was the portrait of the mainstream news media that emerged …
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook now lets all Audience Network publishers insert ads under “Related Articles” at the bottom of Instant Articles  —  All publishers in Facebook's ad network can now feature ads within “Related Articles” sections at the bottom of their Instant Articles.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Sources: Verizon will cut about 15% of AOL-Yahoo staff, or as many as 2.1K jobs, after merger closes  —  The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 percent globally, we have confirmed with our sources.  —  This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger.
RELATED:
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Interview with Audrey Cooper, editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, on changing newsroom culture: celebrating success and avoiding toxicity  —  This piece originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news.  Want to be part of the conversation?
Rani Molla / Recode:
Cisco: online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years  —  What the internet will look like in 2021.  —  Video will make up 82 percent of all internet traffic in 2021, according to forecasts released today by Cisco, which sells networking equipment.
Discussion: @recode and @sub8u, more at Techmeme »
Daniel Sieberg / Google:
Google is supporting an initiative, in partnership with the World Bank and Code For Africa, that aims to train 6K+ journalists in 12 African cities by Feb. 2018  —  For journalists, recent advances in digital technology present compelling new opportunities to discover, tell and share stories …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at The Eyes of War, a crowdfunded conflict-zone reporting project that has helped Italy's Il Giornale paper fund 90 trips across the world since 2013  —  “We're a news site so we need to cover these things, but there's not a lot of money to do everything.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:15 PM ET, June 8, 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: 
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Greg Gianforte apologizes to Ben Jacobs for his conduct, says he will donate $50K to CPJ; Jacobs says he has “accepted” the apology
 Earlier Picks: 
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times promotes Meredith Kopit Levien to executive vice president and chief operating officer, announces Kinsey Wilson is leaving, will consult for CEO
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Ahead of UK and German elections, Facebook's role in political advertising and misinformation falls under scrutiny