Joshua Gillin
May 16, 2013
3:21 pm
Indiegogo.com
While
concerns among some journalists mount concerning interest from Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers over the sale of the Tribune Co., activist group
The Other 98% proposes a different kind of community journalism. They've begun a campaign on Indiegogo.com called Free The Press, which
aims to raise $660 million to "democratize the Tribune Company."
"The only people who are bidding on it right now are infamous right-wing Billionaires, who are likely to pay something around a $660 Million pricetag to control a big slice of trusted news media," the campaign reads. "Instead of sitting back an allowing whichever victor to manipulate us through the media, we've decided to stage an intervention. And we want you to join us."
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Joshua Gillin
May 16, 2013
2:53 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
1:32 pm
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Rick Edmonds
May 16, 2013
1:05 pm
Nieman Journalism Lab | NewsRight
Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators,
has gone out of business.
NewsRight's own
news release describes the dissolution a bit differently saying that its database, existing contracts and brand name will go to
collaborator Moreover and that anti-piracy advocacy will pass to the Newspaper Association of America.
The company's roots were in the AP News Registry, a business development project of the Associated Press. In January 2012, that became NewsRight with AP still lead investor and 28 other newspaper companies taking a stake.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
11:56 am
As protesters rioted in Seattle on May 1, Seattlepi.com reporter Casey McNerthney noticed that tweets from the police were hitting his phone almost at the same time officers in front of him were issuing orders to him and other … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
11:11 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
9:56 am
The Associated Press held its story about a foiled underwear bombing for five days, Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate report in The Washington Post. But on Monday, May 7, "CIA officials reported that the national security concerns were 'no longer an issue,'" they write. Then the
government began jostling with AP over who would get to break the story.
When the journalists rejected a plea to hold off longer, the CIA then offered a compromise. Would they wait a day if AP could have the story exclusively for an hour, with no government officials confirming it for that time?
Then an administration official called, saying, "AP could have the story exclusively for five minutes before the White House made its own announcement. AP then rejected the request to postpone publication any longer."
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Rick Edmonds
May 16, 2013
8:01 am
Deseret News Service, which has focused a good share of its content on faith and family values issues, now is expanding that effort by syndicating the material to other publishers.
The first such deal, announced this morning, is with GateHouse Media, which publishes 78 small and midsize dailies and claims 12 million unique visitors per month to its websites.
"Others are in the pilot stage," Matt Sanders, who is directing the licensing effort, told Poynter by phone. "We will be announcing other relationships as the year goes on."
Deseret shifted to an aggressive digital expansion strategy several years ago under CEO Clark Gilbert. Part of that initiative has been to
re-orient enterprise coverage to faith, family and related matters and offer that in several platforms available to a Mormon audience worldwide. (Deseret, based in Salt Lake City, is owned by the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
3:32 pm
Time |
USA Today |
CNN |
The Daily Caller
Angelina Jolie will appear on the cover of Time's new issue, out Friday, with a story by Alice Park and Jeffrey Kluger about how her revelation that
she had a double mastectomy "puts genetic testing in the spotlight."
The cover picture was taken before Jolie's surgery, Time spokesperson Kerri Chyka tells Poynter.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
1:33 pm
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