December 16, 2013

AOL Chief Winding Down Patch

This story, plus NPR gets $17 million in grants to increase coverage and develop a digital platform, 60 Minutes’ NSA piece and the Syrian opposition vows to help prevent journalists being kidnapped, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Dec 15, 2013

AOL Chief’s White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp

David Carr / The New York Times

Dec 15, 2013

NPR Gets $17 Million in Grants to Expand Coverage and Develop Digital Platform

Elizabeth Jensen / The New York Times

Dec 15, 2013

’60 Minutes’ Reporter Didn’t Want NSA Story to be ‘a Puff Piece’

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter

Dec 15, 2013

Syrian Opposition Vows to Help Prevent Journalists Being Kidnapped

Dasha Afanasieva / Reuters

Press & Government

Dec 15, 2013

AP Reporter Behind CIA Scoop Calls Out U.S. Government

The Huffington Post

Dec 14, 2013

AP Reporter: Keeping The Levinson Story a Secret Was the ‘Hardest Thing I’ve Done’

Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed

Newspaper News

Dec 16, 2013

Denver Post Covers Yet Another Shooting, ‘and the Whole Newsroom Gets it’

Kristen Hare / Poynter

Science, Technology & News

Dec 16, 2013

Freedom of the Press Foundation Steps Up Encryption Efforts for Journalists

Denise Lu / PBS MediaShift

Dec 15, 2013

View: The Tablet Magazine Ship is Sinking. Fast.

Eddie Vassallo / Gigaom

Dec 13, 2013

Data Journalism MOOCs Offer New Options for Distributed Learning

Alexander Howard / Columbia Journalism School

Dec 13, 2013

View: From Google Glass to Snowfalling: What Will Journalism Look Like in 2014?

David Holmes / PandoDaily

Television News

Dec 15, 2013

Why Al Jazeera America Doesn’t Care About Its Low Ratings

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed

Online Media

Dec 14, 2013

Univision Launches Redesigned Website

Merrill Knox / TV Newser

Dec 13, 2013

View: Journalists: Stop Falling for Hoaxes

Alicia Shepard / Columbia Journalism Review

International

Dec 13, 2013

When this Mexican Journalist was Framed and Thrown in Prison, He Interviewed the Inmates

Shannon Young / PRI

Dec 13, 2013

CNN Uses Text to Survey 10k Africans on Life Post-Mandela

Abigail Edge / journalism.co.uk