July 7, 2015

New York Times Begins Publishing on WhatsApp

This story, plus Reddit’s CEO apologizes to community, a program in New Jersey tries to revitalize local news,  the importance of social listening tools, and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Jul 6, 2015

The New York Times Has Its Vatican Reporter Using WhatsApp to Send Short Updates to Readers

Cale Guthrie Weissman / Business Insider

Jul 6, 2015

Ellen Pao Apologizes to Reddit Users Amid Protest

Kaja Whitehouse / USA Today

Jul 6, 2015

A Program in New Jersey is Trying to Get People to Care About Local News Through Community Organizing

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab

Jul 7, 2015

The New Importance of ‘Social Listening’ Tools

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review

Television News

Jul 6, 2015

Hillary Clinton to Give First National Interview of Campaign to CNN

Dylan Byers / Politico

Social Media

Jul 6, 2015

Los Angeles Times Hires ‘Black Twitter’ Reporter

Will Greenberg / The Washington Post

Jul 6, 2015

Eric Zuckerman Named News Partnerships Manager at Twitter

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter

Online Media

Jul 6, 2015

The Verge Temporarily Cans Comments for ‘A Super Chill Summer’

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter

Jul 6, 2015

View: Jeff Jarvis on Distributing News on Facebook

Jeff Jarvis / Medium

International

Jul 7, 2015

Four More Journalists Arrested in Egypt

Roy Greenslade / The Guardian

Jul 6, 2015

BBC News Website Under Attack Ahead of Charter Review as Newspapers Call for ‘Behemoth’ to be ‘Tamed’

William Turvill / PressGazette

Jul 6, 2015

Anatomy of a Global Investigation: Collaborative, Data-Driven, Without Borders

William E Buzenberg / Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center

Jul 6, 2015

Last News Of The World Journalist Sentenced Over Phone Hacking

Jill Lawless / The Huffington Post