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Twitter to start selectively blocking Tweets by country
Posted by Hannah Vinter on January 27, 2012 at 10:58 AM
TwitterEuropa: six European titles team up to investigate European identity
Posted by Hannah Vinter on January 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM
ComScore: Mail Online is the world's biggest newspaper site
Posted by Hannah Vinter on January 26, 2012 at 5:45 AM
E-singles: making extra money from long-form journalism?
Posted by Hannah Vinter on January 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Goodbye international editions, hello digital
Posted by Hannah Vinter on January 25, 2012 at 5:54 AM
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fjournalism%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedia_links_of_the_day_8.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11129" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="media links.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/media%20links.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="58" width="200" /></form><div><i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/campaignreads-share-your-must-read-election-stories-with-post-politics/2012/01/26/gIQAN6X2TQ_blog.html">The Washington Post</a></i> has launched a new section on its website titled to publish links to the best coverage of the US election. The Post gathers links shared by Twitter users tweeting with its hashtag #campaignreads. </div><div><br /></div><div>Facebook hires Bloomberg's Dan Fletcher as its new managing editor, reports <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/01/26/facebook-hires-a-managing-editor-and-hes-a-30-under-30/">Forbes</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/african-twitter-map-continent-connected">The Guardian</a></i> has published a map, based on the research project How Africa Tweets, showing Twitter usage across the African continent. </div><div><br /><i>For more industry news please see </i><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(228, 107, 12); "><b><i>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</i></b></a><br /></div><div><br /></div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Finternet%2F2012%2F01%2Ftwitter_to_start_selectively_blocking_tw.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11167" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><b><a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2012/01/tweets-still-must-flow.html"><img alt="Picture 30.png" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/Picture%2030.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="171" width="295" />Twitter</a></b></form> announced yesterday that it would begin selectively blocking Tweets in some countries. <div><br /></div><div>"Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why." </div><div><br /></div><div>Twitter <a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169222">writes</a> that it will withhold access to Tweets in certain countries "if we receive a valid and properly scoped request from an authorized entity". As an example of illegal material it names pro-Nazi content, which is outlawed in France and Germany.</div><div></div> &title=<b>Twitter</b> to start selectively blocking Tweets by country){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Finternet%2F2012%2F01%2Fthe_daily_mail_has_overtaken.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11162" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="Picture 27.png" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/Picture%2027.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="91" width="362" /></form><div>The <a href="http://www.mailonline.co.uk/"><i>Daily Mail</i></a> has overtaken <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"><i><b>The</b><b> New York Times</b></i></a> to become the world's biggest newspaper site, according to data from <b>comScore</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/the-biggest-newspaper-in-the-world-is-the-dail"><b>Buzzfeed</b></a> reports that in December 2011 <b>Mail Online</b> reached 45.3 million users, compared to 44.8 million reached by the <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mail Online publisher <b>Martin Clarke</b> told Buzzfeed in an interview that growing US audiences and the hiring of deputy editor <b>Katherine Thompson</b>, formerly of the <i>Huffington Post</i>, have helped fuel the Mail's boom in readers. The site has a strong presence in America, with permanent staff in New York and Los Angeles. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div></div> &title=ComScore: <i>Mail Online</i> is the world's biggest newspaper site){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fjournalism%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedia_links_of_the_day_7.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11129" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="media links.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/media%20links.jpg" width="200" height="58" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></form><div>Should reporters be aiming for print bylines? <a href="http://www.cjr.org/currents/the_velvet_rope.php" style="text-decoration: underline; ">The <i>Columbia Journalism Review</i> reflects</a> on why journalists still care about seeing their name in print.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Knight Center's <b><a href="http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/citizens-reports-guide-crowdsourcing-websites-latin-america" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Journalism in the Americas Blog</a></b> shares a list of crowd-sourcing websites from across Latin America. One example is the <b>Mapa Delictivo</b>, created by <i>El Universal, </i>which tracks crimes in Mexico City. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/career-development/ask-the-recruiter/160263/live-chat-today-how-microgrants-could-help-journalists-be-more-innovative/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Poynter</a></b> has published a discussion with Knight News Challenge winner Christina Xu about how microgrants can help fuel innovative journalism. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/the-public-insight-network-now-swimming-in-data-launches-its-own-reporting-unit/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Nieman Lab</a></b> reports that the Public Insight Network, American Public Media's network of sources, is hiring its own reporting team to turn more of the information that its members produce into stories. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>For more industry news please see </i><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(228, 107, 12); "><b><i>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</i></b></a>.</div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fbusiness%2F2012%2F01%2Fe-singles_making_extra_money_from_long-f.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11160" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="Kindle-Singles.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/Kindle-Singles.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="177" width="165" /></form><div>Sometimes a story's too long to be an article, too short to be a book. What can publishers do? Increasingly, the answer has been to publish e-singles. </div><div><br /></div><div>The concept has been around for a while. Almost a year ago, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/media/28carr.html"><i>New York Times</i></a> published an article about <a href="http://atavist.net/">the <b>Atavist</b></a>, an app launched in January 2011 as a platform for long-form stories, enhanced with high-quality photography, videos and audio features. </div><div><br /></div><div>Atavist co-founder <b>Evan Ratliff</b> described the gap his project filled in the market: "in the digital realm, there is infinite space, but somehow this hasn't resulted in a flowering of long-form content." Fellow founder<b> Nicholas Thompson</b> added, "the Web is good at creating short and snappy bits of information, but not so much when it comes to long-form, edited, fact-and-spell-checked work"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div> &title=E-singles: making extra money from long-form journalism? ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Ffinancials%2F2012%2F01%2Fgoodbye_international_editions_hello_dig.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11159" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="international editions.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/international%20editions.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="240" width="160" /></form><div>Are international editions a luxury that newspapers with declining circulation can't afford? </div><div><br /></div><div>In this digital age, increasingly it looks like international print editions are under threat. An article in <i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/22/international-herald-tribune-breathe-last">The Guardian</a></i> last Sunday speculated that the<i> International Herald Tribune</i>, the global edition of the <i>New York Times</i>, might be about to shut up shop. Author<b> Peter Preston</b> writes that after selling its stake in the Boston Red Sox and its regional newspaper group, getting rid of the Tribune might be the logical next step for the New York Times. </div><div><br /></div><div>Preston calls the Tribune "very vulnerable" as senior editors are being called back from the IHT headquarters in Paris to other jobs in New York. He notes that the paper "doesn't make money. It struggles to keep circulation over 200,000 worldwide. And, crucially, it doesn't have a website of its own". </div><div><br /></div><div>The article is based on conjecture (and it should be pointed out, <i>The Guardian's</i> own circulation was<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/audit-bureau-of-circulation-guardian-circulation/s2/a547462/"> 230,108</a> in December and it has been losing money for some time) but perhaps Preston raises an important point about the cost of printing international editions. When print production everywhere is under threat, it's no surprise that they're the first to go. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div> &title=Goodbye international editions, hello digital ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fjournalism%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedia_links_of_the_day_6.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11129" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="media links.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/media%20links.jpg" width="200" height="58" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></form>Public concern has been raised over media laws restricting freedom of the press in Hungary and South Africa, but less attention has been devoted to the worsening situation in Ecuador, where the news media are now under attack, <a href="http://georgebrock.net/attacking-journalists-in-the-original-banana-republic/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">writes <b>George Brock</b></a>, Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London, on his blog. <br /><br />On January 24, the <b>World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers</b> (WAN-IFRA) published a report that illustrates<a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2012/01/23/wan-ifra-denounces-ecuador-government-s-authoritarian-turn" style="text-decoration: underline; "> how the government of Ecuador is carrying out "a sophisticated strategy of marginalising all voices independent of state power"</a>. <br />Download the full report in English and Spanish <a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2012/01/23/press-freedom-report-ecuador-january-2012" style="text-decoration: underline; ">here</a>. <div><br /></div><div><div>A survey reported by <i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/24/british-public-distrust-red-top-tabloids?CMP=twt_fd" style="text-decoration: underline; ">The Guardian</a></i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/24/british-public-distrust-red-top-tabloids?CMP=twt_fd" style="text-decoration: underline; "> </a>today suggests that almost 70% of the British population distrust tabloid newspapers. However, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/24/polls-national-newspapers?CMP=twt_fd" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Roy Greenslade</a> argues that the question of trust it irrelevant for many tabloid readers, who are looking for entertainment, not information. </div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone on Facebook will soon be getting Timeline, writes <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/facebook-timeline-now-open-to-all-users-get-a-week-to-clean-up-profiles/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Techcrunch</a>. The social network's new look is already available for those who want to opt in voluntarily, but it will be unrolled for all users in the next couple weeks. </div><div><br /></div><div>And finally, G<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5878743" style="text-decoration: underline; ">izmodo</a> reports that Julian Assange will be appearing on his own TV show. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><i>For more industry news please see </i><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(228, 107, 12); "><b><i>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</i></b></a>.</div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}