Journalism agenda: Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy…

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Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy and is putting itself up for sale (possibly to Ziff Davis)

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy on Friday, after saying in Florida court that itcannot pay the $140.1 million awarded to actor Hulk Hogan in a case bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. (The full filing, which is not juicy, is at the end of this post.)

Filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy does not mean that Gawker Media is shutting down. Instead, it buys it time to negotiate with its creditors and come up with a plan to emerge from bankruptcy. In this case, the plan is to sell the company, which has remained independent for its entire 14 years. Ziff Davis (owner of distinctly un-Gawker-y publications like PCMag and Geek.com) has made a binding offer of $90 to $100 million, and the company expects to receive additional offers.

Gawker Writers Say It’s a ‘Dark Day’ for Editorial Freedom

Wired Top Stories by Davey Alba

“The biggest thing is losing the financial independence that let us write whatever we want without any fear of corporate overlords.”

Gawker files for bankruptcy, will sell itself after $140 million Hulk Hogan lawsuit judgement

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Gawker Media was crushed by the $140 million legal judgment in Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, which we now know was financed by a bitter and resentful Peter Thiel.

These 10 Stories Are Exactly Why We Need Gawker

Wired Top Stories by K.M. McFarland

With the company filing for bankruptcy, we rounded up the best reporting from Gawker Media’s network of websites over the past 13 years.

Gawker’s Bankruptcy Is How a Free Press Dies, One VC at a Time

Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen

Instead of fighting speech with speech, Peter Thiel bought a muzzle. Now that he’s created a template, it’s likely to happen again.

Here are some of the best and most interesting ideas from The Guardian’s comments-focused hack day

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

The Guardian is trying to hack its way into better comments.

Since yesterday, The Guardian has assembled its developers and product managers for another one of its two-day hack events, which it holds every three to six months. This time around, it’s focusing its efforts on comments and figuring out ways to improve them. The “Web We Want Hack Day” is named after the movement that’s, in part, looking to end abuse online and facilitate better discussions among readers.

Journalists are losing key tools to changes in social media tech

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On June 1, API changes at Instagram mean that Gramfeed, a favourite Instagram search engine, is no more. It is now called Picodash, is no longer free, and some search functionality has disappeared. Instagram made these changes in response to their community who argued “it can be unclear where […] content is being shared and viewed.”

The Telegraph is trying to streamline soccer live blogging with an automated graphic system

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

In the 79th minute of last fall’s Rugby World Cup Final, New Zealand fly-halfBeauden Barrett scored a try to ice the All Blacks’ victory over rival Australia.

Seconds after Barrett downed the ball, a graphic mapping the score appeared in the live blog that the British newspaper The Telegraph was using to cover the match in real-time.

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Davutoglu’s departure started with an Erdoğanist blog post…

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20 confrontations between Davutoğlu and Erdoğan during 20 months of prime ministry

What determined outgoing Turkish PM Davutoğlu’s fate most was his up-and-down relationship with President Erdoğan. Here is a list of 20 of Davutoğlu’s confrontations with Erdoğan during his 20-month odyssey as prime minister

How mysterious new Turkish blog exposed Erdogan-Davutoglu rift – Al-Monitor

the Pulse of the Middle East – May 3, 1:28 AM

Author: Mustafa Akyol May 3, 2016 On the night of May 1, in just a few hours, a brand-new political blog became a national hit in Turkey. Titled Pelican Brief — apparently a pun on the 1993 Hollywood thriller — the site presented a…

Erdogan’s March to Autocracy in Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By YARA BISHARA

A look at how Turkey has taken an increasingly authoritative turn under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish Pelican Brief: Erdoğanist blog seeks to topple Davutoğlu, an English translation

The Turkish Sun – Apr 26, 3:30 AM

An anonymous blog post published on May 1, 2016 named the Pelican Brief (Pelikan Dosyası) generated a lot of interest in Turkey. It appeared to be an attempt from within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to actively target Prime

 

Erdogan’s secret economic weapon – Al-Monitor

the Pulse of the Middle East – May 4, 1:11 AM

During his first decade in power, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won widespread respect as a mediator working to resolve international issues. He largely settled Turkey’s problems with neighboring countries, advocated democratic values and presided

 

No turning back from presidential system, says Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed there was no turning back from a presidential system, in his address during an ceremony on May 6, a day after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced he would leave his post following a rift with the president

Moody’s says any political uncertainty in Turkey to be credit negative

Any renewed political uncertainty in Turkey is credit negative as it could diminish investor confidence, said credit ratings agency Moody’s on May 5, after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced he would be stepping down

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EU-Turkey summit. Bowing down to increasing tyranny because of the refugee crisis?

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Turkey faces criticism on press freedom at EU summit

Turkey has faced criticism from EU officials and politicians over the seizure of the Zaman media group at a Brussels summit as part of efforts to implement a joint action plan on illegal migrants, while critics accuse the EU of turning a blind eye to Turkey’s worsening press record to procure its support in curbing the flow of migrants

EU Minister slams EP rapporteur Piri over ‘one-sided’ remarks on anti-PKK fight

Turkey’s EU Minister Volkan Bozkır has suggested that the European Parliament’s Rapporteur for Turkey Kati Piri lost her “neutrality” about Turkey’s issues

The Guardian view on the Turkish crackdown on the media: unjustified and undemocratic | Editorial

 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

The press in Turkey is under attack from a government that can’t cope with criticismTurkey is a country at the mercy of one man’s bad temper. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s response to any challenge or criticism has long been combative, but it is becoming ever more excessive and vindictive. The latest victim of his anger is the country’s biggest-selling newspaper, Zaman, which wastaken over by the authorities last week virtually at gunpoint.

EU-Turkey summit to focus on stemming flow of migrants to Europe

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Philip Oltermann in Berlin

European leaders expected to try to speed up work on joint action plan aimed at getting to grips with crisis

EU and Turkish leaders are meeting in Brussels in a decisive moment for Europe’s efforts to get to grips with its migration crisis, which is on the brink of turning into a humanitarian catastrophe.

 

EU migration summit stalls as Turkey ups demands – live

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jessica Elgot and Haroon Siddique

EU leaders are set to call on Turkey to do more to stop migrants and refugees from making the dangerous journey across the Aegean Sea to Greece

Summit preview: leaders try to stem flow of people

UK to join Nato refugee patrols in Aegean

Erdoğan, the enemy of press freedom, will humiliate the EU again

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Roy Greenslade

Turkey’s president will get away with his media clampdown because the European Union needs his help over the refugee crisis

For several years I have been posting blog items on the fraught relationship between Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the country’s journalists.

EU summit to declare Balkan migrant route closed

EU leaders held a summit with Turkey’s PM on March 7 in order to back closing the Balkans migrant route and urge Ankara to accept deportations of large numbers of economic migrants from overstretched Greece

Turkish PM meets Merkel and Rutte on refugee crisis

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has held a six-hour meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU term president Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Brussels, ahead of a March 7 summit to implement a joint action plan on illegal migrants

Erdoğan is a problematic partner but EU needs Turkey’s help

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Simon Tisdall

Takeover of opposition newspaper was Erdoğan giving Brussels the finger on eve of summit, and other issues have gone largely unchallenged too

Europe’s Faustian pact with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to curtail migration into the EU may carry a devilishly high price tag. Turkey’s authoritarian president has proved an unreliable and problematic partner since the Syrian crisis erupted five years ago. But the EU’s urgent need for his help currently outweighs its deep misgivings. As Faust discovered, the reckoning comes later.

France says seizure of Zaman newspaper ‘unacceptable’

France’s foreign minister said on March 7 that the decision by Turkish authorities to seize control of the country’s largest newspaper was “unacceptable” and went against European values

Donald Tusk’s migration magic trick undermined by flawed logic

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent

Turkey’s compliance is not a foregone conclusion, and it is unlikely that the Balkans can be sealed off from Greece

“With that,” said Donald Tusk, president of the European council, with all the confidence of a magician at a circus, “we will close the western Balkans route.” It is a hubristic claim – but one that nevertheless reflects the new hardline agenda that much of Europe’s top brass hopes to push through during the migration summit between European and Turkish leaders.

Turkey, refugee crisis and women’s issues among EP plenary agenda in Strasbourg
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EU-Turkey Summit, European agenda on migration and refugees, as well as issues relating to women and the protection of refugee women, on the occasion of International Women`s Day, will be among the isues discussed during the spring session of the …

EU-Turkey summit extended as Ankara offers ‘new ideas’: EU

A half-day summit between the EU and Turkey was extended on March 7 after Turkish PM Davutoğlu offered “new ideas” going beyond Ankara’s commitments so far to curb a flood of migrants to Europe

Refugees rescued off Greece and Turkey – video

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.u

Aerial footage from Turkey’s coastguard shows people being rescued from the water near the Turkish resort of Didim on Sunday as a boat lies below the water. At least 15 were plucked to safety but 25 people died on Sunday, including three children. In a separate incident, Greek coastguards are seen rescuing hundreds of people in waters around the island of Lesbos

Merkel calls Turkey ‘right’ in wanting to share refugee task with Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Turkey “rightfully” wanted to share the burden of more than 2.5 million migrants with the European Union

Refugee crisis: joint action with Turkey the priority, says Merkel, as summit called

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Meeting likely to happen in early March as Donald Tusk and German chancellor say cooperation with Turkey is the focus

 

Turkey needs to stem migrant flow by June 1 deadline, says EU envoy

Turkey needs to stop or significantly reduce the number of illegal migrants crossing into Europe by June 1, when a readmission agreement between Ankara and Brussels goes into full effect, an EU envoy said on March 4

Turkey is the sick – but still strong – man of Europe

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Europe needs Turkey to stem the flow of refugees and migrants now – everything else can wait.

Turkey agrees to take back people who don’t qualify for EU asylum

 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jennifer Rankin and Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Athens

Diplomats claim breakthrough after Turkish PM pledges to readmit those not permitted to enter EU as asylum applicants hit record numbers

European diplomats are claiming a breakthrough in the continent’s migration crisis after reporting that Turkey has agreed to take back people not qualifying for asylum in the EU.

E.U. Presses for Accord With Turkey to Ease Flow of Migrants

NYT > Turkey by By JAMES KANTER

An emerging deal would resettle many Syrian refugees living in Turkey if the country reduces the number of people who leave, giving some officials hope of progress.

WikiLeaks publishes EU’s secret report on migrants
New Europe
They are the western Mediterranean route, which reaches Spain from North West Africa; the central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Italy and Malta and the eastern Mediterranean route from Turkey to Greece. According to data provided by FRONTEX, …
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Turkey becomes EU’s fifth-largest trade partner: Data

Turkey became the European Union’s fifth largest trade partner in 2015, according to data released by Eurostat

European states deeply divided on refugee crisis before key summit

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ian Traynor in Brussels and Nicholas Watt

Germany’s Angela Merkel is trying to salvage her open-door policy as a growing number of countries move to seal borders

Europe’s deep divide over immigration is to be laid bare at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, with German chancellor Angela Merkel struggling to salvage her open-door policy while a growing number of countries move to seal borders to newcomers along the Balkan routes.

PYD ‘philosophically linked’ to PKK leader, says PYD head

Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Turkey accuses of being an offshoot of the outlawed PKK, embraces the ideas of the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, PYD head Salih Muslim has said

What’s Europe’s next move? The world is watching what some hope is our collapse | Rachida Dati

 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Rachida Dati

Syria, migration, terrorism: the EU’s leaders seem helpless in the face of these interrelated crises. Yet there is a political solution – and it begins with Turkey

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Journalism agenda: “Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics…

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Journalists [in Turkey] countrywide to support colleagues in clash zones

Journalists based in Turkey launched an initiative in solidarity with their colleagues struggling to report in southeastern Turkish provinces struck by clashes between security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants

Turkish author faces jail term for insulting president

Nokta Magazine author Perihan Mağden faces up to four years in prison for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in statements on a police raid on the magazine in late 2015 that was published in Turkish news portal Diken

The next step: Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Federica Cherubini and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Big screens with real-time traffic data have become ubiquitous in newsrooms. They illustrate how news organizations are becoming more and more interested in tracking audience behavior, as data-informed approaches to decision making previously associated with popular sites like BuzzFeed, Gawker, and The Huffington Post are increasingly central to editorial decision making at upmarket brands like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and Quartz.

Inside The Independent’s plans for digital expansion

 Journalism.co.uk

Digital editor Christian Broughton outlines some of the changes ahead as the outlet looks to find the right mix of experience and innovation

The Christian Science Monitor has a new project to provide more positive takes on global news

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

What do you think of when you think of The Christian Science Monitor? Well, the news organization hopes that you think of it as a place that’s been providing “calming context on global news” since 1908, in the words of weekly magazine editor Clayton Collins. And this week, the Monitor launched a new social media initiative, “The Redirect,” that aims to offer a counter-narrative to gloom in the news.

Here’s how to stop Twitter’s new timeline affecting your newsgathering

firstdraftnews.com by First Draft

After much discussion and public backlash, Twitter announced today that their timeline has gone algorithmic. The “best tweets” will appear first in every user’s timeline. The end is nigh. Or so some on the real-time social network would have you believe.

The Independent confirms it’s the first UK national newspaper to go online-only

The Next Web by Ben Woods

The Independent has today confirmed rumors that it is ceasing its print operations and switching to a digital-only future, as news publishers across the world look for ways to address falling ad revenues. ESI Media, owners of the publication, say the move will “ensure a sustainable and profitable future” but that’s likely to be cold-comfort to anyone losing their job as a result of the shift. ESI Media said there will be “some” redundancies but didn’t say how many. Evgeny Lebedev, owner of The Independent, said: “

10 ways local journalists can better cover their patch

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Local reporters are the ground troops of the journalism world. Armed with their notebooks and tenacity, they are often first to the scene when news breaks, slogging it out in the trenches to serve their communities and cover the stories other outlets ignore.

3 experiments for interactive mobile news from Hackastory

 Journalism.co.uk

A Telegram chat bot for talking to refugees and a web app that presents the news in an alternative way are two of the prototypes developed at the hackathon

App for journalists: Clammr, for sharing your podcast highlights on social media

Journalism.co.uk

Post snippets of audio on social media to showcase and promote your latest work

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