Mediagazer: Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy (Amy Chozick/New York Times)

Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels — Nothing gets journalists chattering like a debate about themselves, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that my post yesterday about the fixation many news outlets have with being first attracted some notice.

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy — It's not often moguls admit they made a mistake. — But lately some of the highest-paid executives at the world's largest media companies have talked a lot about the lessons they learned from a failed industrywide attempt to pass antipiracy legislation six months ago.

Discussion: Daily Dot and Forbes Real Time

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NBC and Facebook to Announce Olympics Partnership — Users of Facebook, later this summer, will be reminded about NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in London. And viewers of NBC's coverage, at the same time, will be nudged to talk about the Games on Facebook.

Discussion: The Wrap

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Confidence in TV news at all-time low — Americans' confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup. — Twenty-one percent of the 1,004 adults polled said they had “a great deal” or “a lot” of confidence in television news media …

Discussion: Gallup, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, @davidfolkenflik, Chickaboomer and Deadline.com

Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:

Social media grows in importance for finding the news — A new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism provides further evidence of how social media is shaping news consumption. — The survey of online news consumers across five countries - UK, US, Germany …

Discussion: ResourceShelf

Brian Clark Howard / News Watch:

Dangerous Journalism: Where Is it Most Risky to Report? — An unexploded mortar shell sits in the desert in Israel near the border with Gaza and Egypt. Journalists covering conflict zones aren't the only ones at risk. Photo: Brian Clark Howard — By Drew Hendricks

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Next Issue, magazines and paving media cow paths — Newspapers get most of the press when it comes to the disruption of the mainstream media industry, but magazines are also struggling to find a digital model that works. Next Issue Media believes it has the answer — a Netflix …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Journalism.co.uk and Mashable!

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Jakomi Mathews / THE MUSiC VOiD:

Are There Too Many Music Streaming Services? — Earlier today Pandora announced their move into the Australian music market and TMV understands Deezer is not far behind. In this market alone that would mean Rdio, MOG, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, five global music streaming services …

Thomas Grove / Reuters:

Russian Wikipedia closes site to protest Internet law — (Reuters) - The Russian version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia closed its site on Tuesday in a one-day protest against what it said were plans by President Vladimir Putin to create his own version of the “Great Chinese Firewall” to block dissent on the Internet.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why The New York Times eschews formal social media guidelines — Phil Corbett, The New York Times associate managing editor for standards, tells me in an interview why the paper chooses to have only informal social media guidelines: … Earlier: John Paton's three “rules” for journalists using social media (Digital First) |

Discussion: The Educated Reporter

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

The New York Times Gets a ‘Rare Glimpse’ Quite Often … - “ ... Rare Glimpse of U.S.-China Frictions” — “A Rare Glimpse Inside the Ivy League's Academic Index” — “ ... a rare glimpse at the medical emergency that has developed as the Syrian conflict rages on.”

Erik Wemple:

Free Lance-Star staffer deletes Patch links from paper's Facebook page — The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Va., hopped on a big weather story yesterday evening. Demon winds had ruined a couple of buildings and tousled others in Spotsylvania County's Four-Mile Fork area, creating some provocative scenes of destruction.

Sam Thielman / Adweek:

Hearst and Time Warner Cable Part Ways Over Retrans — Hearst and Time Warner are slugging it out over retransmission consent fees, and 13 stations in 11 markets are feeling the pinch today. Six ABC affiliates including KITV (Honolulu), WMTW (Portland, Maine), KMBC (Kansas City), KETV …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, KHVO, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

Michael McGough / Los Angeles Times:

Should freedom of the press shield WikiLeaks? — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, it is safe to say, is not a fan of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. (J.. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press / July 9, 2012) — Glenn Greenwald, the ne plus ultra of critics of what he calls the …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Newspaper columnists jump on Journatic controversy over outsourced news — The controversy over Journatic's outsourcing of local news has benefited one type of content that you can't send overseas as easily as real-estate news: newspaper columns. — The Miami Herald's Fred Grimm promises readers …

AdAge:

Blog Network Say Media Poaches Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher — Leaves Time Inc. Flagship Magazine for Blog Network — Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that includes sites such as XOJane …

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Wall Blog, Home Page Feed, WWD Media Headlines, MinOnline, Adweek, The Wrap and FishbowlNY