August 21, 2015

New York Daily News No Longer For Sale

This story, plus Google is ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ stories, ProPublica expands its news apps and networked reporting, Politico denies claims about a reporter’s departure and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Aug 20, 2015

Daily News No Longer for Sale

Chris Ariens / Adweek

Aug 20, 2015

Google Ordered to Remove Links to ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Removal Stories

Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian

Aug 20, 2015

ProPublica Expands News Apps and Networked Reporting with New Funding From Knight Foundation

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab

Aug 20, 2015

Politico Denies Unionizing Effort Was Behind Reporter’s Departure

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post

Online Media

Aug 20, 2015

Upworthy Launches Freelancer Program

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter

Aug 20, 2015

A Spanish-Language Website is Working to Document Killings of Undocumented Immigrants

Shan Wang / Nieman Journalism Lab

Aug 21, 2015

‘I Am The Social’: Neetzan Zimmerman Brings a Little Bit of Gawker to The Hill

Lucia Moses / Digiday

Technology & News

Aug 20, 2015

Ahead of Apple News Launch, Flipboard Adds Voting to its News Feed

Tom Cheredar / Gigaom

Aug 20, 2015

ENG ‘Kites’: Tethered Drones For Newsgathering

Henry H. Perritt Jr / RTDNA

Media Ethics

Aug 21, 2015

View: Why Journalists Should (At Least Sometimes) Be Activists

Dan Gillmor / Editor & Publisher

Newspaper News

Aug 20, 2015

View: Why Newspaper Content Counts for All of Us

Brian Tierney / Poynter

Sports News

Aug 21, 2015

Uncertainty Looms Over The Undefeated, ESPN’s Site on Sports and Race

RICHARD SANDOMIR / New York Times

International

Aug 20, 2015

South Sudanese Journalist Shot Dead in Capital

Denis Dumo / Reuters