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This is one a few other protest that occurred recently….

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Pro-gov’t businessman censors own remarks on ‘Erdoğan love’

A pro-AKP media tycoon has succeeded in his unusual lawsuit, with a court ruling to block reports on 50 news websites quoting his reflections on the ‘divine love’ between himself and President Erdoğan

The long and arduous journey of women on screen in Turkey

Summer time is the time for confusion in movie theaters. Among the Hollywood blockbusters and anticipated indie films finally finding release dates after months are the low-budget, low-key Turkish films

Number of Syrian refugees rivaling locals in 10 Turkish cities

The number of Syrian refugees in 10 cities across Turkey now rivals the population of local residents and even outnumbers it in one city, a senior Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News

Iconic Turkish folk singer Selda Bağcan reflects on art and politics

BGN NEWS

What has happened to Fazıl Say and Orhan Pamuk is enough to break one’s heart. If I were to come face to face with censorship I would never bow

Turkey is not in the List of World’s 57 Largest Book Publishers

Bianet :: English

The List of World’s 57 Largest Book Publishers has been released. 27 book publishers from 20 countries are in the list while Turkey isn’t. President of Turkish Publishers Association: “We have publishers may enter the list not necessarily from the top.”

Istanbul Armenian orphanage volunteers attacked

Two volunteers standing guard to prevent the demolition of an Armenian orphanage publicly known as “Kamp Armen” have been attacked by unidentified men on the 100th day of the peaceful protest in Istanbul’s Tuzla district

16TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1999 MARMARA EARTHQUAKE: Three Out of Four of 493 Assembly Areas Have Been Zoned for Construction

Bianet :: English

A commemoration ceremony was performed on 16th anniversary of August 17, 1999 Marmara Earthquake. Chamber of Architects İstanbul Branch Chairperson Cemal Gökçe drew attention that İstanbul wasn’t more ready for an earthquake than 1999.

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CIA’s Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to 42 Months for Leaking to New York Times Journalist – The Intercept

firstlook.org – Peter Maass – May 11, 7:53 AM – Alexandria, VA — Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA agent convicted of sharing classified information with a New York Times reporter, was sentenced today to three and a half years in prison, a significantly shorter term than had been expected.

Google’s friendship pact in Europe

BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis

Google Signs a Friendship Pact with Euro Publishers

The Upshot uses geolocation to push readers deeper into data

Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

When you’re writing about how place — be that a neighborhood or a city —affects a child’s chances of getting out of poverty, location is obviously central to the story. So when the team at The Upshot wanted to put together a companion interactive piece, they set out to answer the question many readers would ask:What does that look like where I live?

Knight Foundation invests $1 million in creator-driven podcast collective Radiotopia

Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

A little over a year ago, a group of public radio-minded podcast producers banded together with an idea: to combine their powers to grow a shared audience and develop a better business model for fledgling audio entrepreneurs.

The Media Industry Prefers Penis

A not-totally serious look at how The Verge, BuzzFeed, and the New York Times use words like “penis” and “vagina” (and “cat” and “dog”)

1. P v. V

I had a stray idea and decided to chart how often web pages that contain the word “penis” appear on media websites like The Verge, BuzzFeed, and theNew York Times, in comparison to the number of web pages on those sites that contain the word “vagina.” Here is a highly suspect chart showing the ratio of “penis” pages to “vagina” pages, using the search results from Bing.com (more below).

Social media has strengthened the authority of the BBC

…ice reflected how such changes, and their consequences, were commonly viewed by intelligent comment journalism. The overwhelming presumption was that the coincident emergence of digital technologies, and the empowerment of ‘the individual’ that they facilitated, would unleash historic forces on the mainstream media, not only compromising hitherto successful revenue models but even attenuating the relationship between producer and audience. The other side of the coin Almost a decade later, it is

open Democracy News Analysis – / by Aaron Bastani

The Washington Post is experimenting with bringing its tablet experience to the web

Last year, The Washington Post debuted a new app for the Kindle Fire with an intriguingly distinct user interface. Jeff Bezos was quite involved in its development, “Project Rainbow” — not surprising, I suppose, considering that it was the most meaningful crossover yet between his day job (owning Amazon) and his side gig (owning The Washington Post). Now, the visual metaphors of that Kindle Fire a

Nieman Journalism Lab / by Joshua Benton

Millennials are watching 40 minutes less traditional TV every…

CyberJournalist.net

Millennials are watching 40 minutes less traditional TV every day than they were two years ago.

Sharing across borders: How BBC News wants to streamline social news across multiple languages

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

The video, posted to the BBC Azeri service’s Instagram account last month, showed explosions, soldiers standing in formation, and aircraft flying into battle. It was footage that people all around the world had been clamoring to see: the trailer for Ulduz müharibələri.

A new NYT Now: All the aggregation you enjoyed before, now for free

Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

The latest version of NYT Now, The New York Times’ aggregation-fueled smartphone app, is out today and, for the first time, it’s free to all users.

Though rumored and discussed for some time, it’s still a significant shift for the company, which originally launched the app as a cheaper alternative to a full Times subscription, specifically focused on younger, more smartphone-centric readers. At $8 a month, it was about half the price of the cheapest digital subscription to the Times.

BuzzFeed’s answer to measuring social sharing? Pounds

Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

BuzzFeed wants to find a better way to weigh its viral success, and it wants to convert clicks to Pounds.

At the NewFronts presentations in New York today the company unveiled its new proprietary system for analyzing how content races across the the web — and sharing that information with its advertisers. Specifically, the “Process for Optimizing and Understanding Network Diffusion” is meant to shed a little light into the hidden corners of the social web. BuzzFeed has said that 75 percent of its 200 million monthly users are visiting the site through social media, so it would only make sense the company would want to better understand the patterns and habits of social sharing.

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Anger at Soldier funerals turning not only to PKK but to AKP representatives… And a social fabric roundup…

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Journalism agenda: A CIA agent sentenced to 42 months for leaking to NYT…

The Media Industry Prefers Penis

A not-totally serious look at how The Verge, BuzzFeed, and the New York Times use words like “penis” and “vagina” (and “cat” and “dog”)

1. P v. V

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