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An Aleppo-like Landscape in a Kurdish Redoubt of Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By ROD NORDLAND

In Diyarbakir city, the informal Kurdish capital, a legacy of intense fighting between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish military.

If you donate enough, you can be listed as one of the state elders in Turkey as the Qatari leader did in Trabzon Akyazı Stadium.

Turkey will never allow a new state in northern Syria: Erdoğan

Hurriyet Daily News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 24 that Turkey will never allow the formation of a new state in northern Syria

Turkish president points at Syria’s Manbij as first target, eyes Raqqa afterwards

Hurriyet Daily News

Ensconced in a battle for al-Bab, Turkey is already looking to march on SDF-controlled Manbij, President Erdoğan declares

More than 1500 charged for using social media to support terrorism in Turkey

Hurriyet Daily New

More than 1,500 people were taken into custody over the last six months on charges of promoting terrorism on social media, the Turkish Interior Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 24.

After Turkey’s failed coup, a sense of fatalism has set in

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Elif Shafak

President Erdoğan managed to hold on to power in July, but a crackdown on liberals and secularists has turned survival into a game of chance

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How Are Journalists Using Social Media? (Report)

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Social media has grown from friend communication service to all-encompassing digital life tool. During this digital evolution, journalists who were early adopters and used social sites for both gathering information and broadcasting content have become a core part of many platforms. A white paper from Cision, a provider of media management solutions, examines how journalists are using social media in 2016.

Cision categorized U.S. journalists into five archetypes:

How side-projects make you a better journalist

The Next Web by Ben Woods

Though I’ve published more than 2,500 articles on The Next Web, this is the first oneI’ve written about something that’s mine. A couple of months ago, a change in strategy meant venturing into the world of freelance work as an editor, tech journalist and media consultant to startups that don’t know where to start with approaching the media. What I quickly realized is that not having a full-time job meant I could start my own side projects that in turn gives me the opportunity to become a better tech journalist and editor. It also gives me the ability to truly live the…

‘Shared Media’ Is the Future And Will Disrupt Media Buying As We Know It

All Facebook

“Shared media” is outperforming traditional digital advertising by 10 times. So what exactly is shared media, and why is it so successful?

In traditional media buying, the advertiser buys audience exposure from a publisher, broadcaster or ad network. The publisher or ad network shows the ad to its audience and is paid by the advertiser according to the number of people reached.

Native advertising: Another false messiah?

BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis

I’ve been waiting for this: the leak in the native advertising balloon.

Tablets were going to save the news business. Not so much. Paywalls were our salvation, damnit. Nope. Native advertising is our future. Think again.

Digiday reports on the latest problem with the native advertising strategy:

Digital ad sales intelligence platform MediaRadar said the average renewal rate for sponsor content this year is 21 percent. Meanwhile, native ad tech company Polar recently described renewal rates as “weak,” with 40 percent of the publishers it surveyed showing renewal rates below 50 percent.

Native advertising isn’t going to cure all our problems because:

After 14 years, Gawker.com is officially dead. Here are some numbers to remember its life by

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

By now you’ll have heard that after 14 years, Gawker.com will publish no more. Univision, the new owner of Gawker.com’s sibling sites, likely decided it didn’t want to deal with the Gawker Media flagship’s baggage. Gawker’s writers are being folded into other sites like Deadspin, Gizmodo, and Jezebel, or into other parts of Univision (though there’s no guarantee many of them will want to stay).

“Closing the book”, Gawker releases data on traffic and posting statistics

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Illo: Rob Beschizza

Josh Laurito offers a fascinating look at the internals of a top-flight blog. Gawker, bankrupted by the Hulk Hogan lawsuit verdict and having sold off all its blogs (except Gawker.com itself) to Univision, is to cease publication this week.

How to source user-generated content legally with Lobster

Journalism.co.uk

Sponsored: With both the demand and the supply of user-generated content (UGC) increasing, newsrooms are turning to services which help them make sense of it all

App for journalists: Spark Pro, for capturing and editing high-quality video

Journalism.co.uk

The free app allows users to record high-definition footage in 1080p and edit packages with filters and sound

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Journalism agenda: “How Are Journalists Using Social Media? (Report)

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