Mediagazer: FCC: Cable operators can stop providing analog signals of local TV (Joe Flint/Los Angeles Times)

7:00 AM ET, June 14, 2012

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Kevin Morris / Daily Dot:

Reddit bans “The Atlantic,” “Businessweek,” others in major anti-spam move — Reddit just dropped the banhammer. — As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights The Atlantic and PhysOrg.

Discussion: Mixed Media, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, tumblr.thefjp.org and Mashable!

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

Reddit: Ban on Businessweek and The Atlantic Is Temporary — Seems like the folks over at Reddit don't take too kindly to spammers. The Daily Dot reports that at least five news source domains, including some media heavyweights like The Atlantic and Businessweek, have been banned from Reddit.

Discussion: The FJP

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Would you buy a .boston domain from The Boston Globe? — The Boston Globe wants to open up a new line of business: selling domain names. — The Globe is among a number of organizations that are vying for a new series of web suffixes like .yoga, .android, .hockey and .kindle.

Discussion: GigaOM, ICANN New gTLDs, TechCrunch, Digits, WWD Media Headlines, Pocket-lint, Reuters, Politico, The Verge and Poynter

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Digital Notes: Plans for a New .Music Suffix, but Who Will Own It?

Discussion: Betabeat, Billboard.Biz and New York Times

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why your news organization's social media policy may be illegal — If Barrett Tryon does get fired today by Freedom Communications, as he expects, he may find the National Labor Relations Board has his back. — Tryon, a multimedia journalist at the Colorado Springs Gazette …

Discussion: JD Supra

Jim Romenesko:

Freedom paper tells reporter to remove LAT story from Facebook wall — After it was announced that Aaron Kushner's group was buying the Orange County Register and other Freedom Communications papers, a journalist at Freedom's Colorado Springs Gazette posted this on his Facebook wall:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

CNN Is Ending John King's Political Show — The ailing cable news channel CNN on Wednesday abruptly ended “John King, USA,” its 6 p.m. political news program. — The program will be replaced at the end of the month by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” which will expand from two hours long to three hours.

Discussion: Inside Cable News, Politico, The Huffington Post, CJR, Politico, NPR, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY, TVWeek.com, TVbytheNumbers, Multichannel, TVNewser, New York Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and Mediaite

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans might expect when the printing presses slow — DETROIT — It was exactly the kind of story you want a newspaper for: In 2008, Detroit Free Press reporters uncovered a trove of incriminating text messages that ultimately led to the resignation …

Discussion: GigaOM, Gannett Blog and Jack Lessenberry

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple, Time Inc. Solve Their Subscription Squabble — Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. — If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out.

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

FCC: Cable operators can stop providing analog signals of local TV — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (Associated Press / June 12, 2012) — In a move that has upset the broadcast industry, the Federal Communications Commission said it will let lapse a rule that required cable operators to carry local television signals in analog.

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

New twist in plagiarism saga involving Oliver North — Oliver North wrote last month that he asked “a dear friend”—Medal of Honor recipient Sammy L. Davis— for his thoughts about Memorial Day. North included a long and eloquent quote he attributed to Davis in a column he wrote about the holiday.

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Guardian:

Cameron to announce new guidelines following Hunt fiasco — PM will implicitly accept that the government's handling of the News Corp bid to take control of BSkyB was flawed — David Cameron will implicitly accept that the government's handling of the News Corp bid to take full control …

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Twitter's role in delivering media grows with expanded Tweets — Twitter announced today that it will partner with a variety of online media companies to provide an enhanced version of “expanded Tweets,” which allow users to preview stories and videos linked to in Tweets without ever leaving Twitter's site.