Mediagazer: Has Nick Denton really reinvented comments? (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

8:50 AM ET, July 13, 2012

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Once a Social Media Star, Digg Sells for $500,000 — Digg Inc., a social-media pioneer once valued at more than $160 million, is selling for the deeply discounted price of about $500,000, three people familiar with the matter said. — The buyer is New York technology development firm Betaworks …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks — Sun Valley and self-driving cars aside, the story of the day today is that social news site Digg has sold its remaining assets for $500K to the NYC-based tech firm Betaworks. While that number is indeed in the ballpark …

Discussion: Media News, Business Insider, The Wall Blog and One Man & His Blog

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Betaworks Buys What's Left of Social News Site Digg — For a while, Digg, the social news site, was one of the hottest things on the Web. But then it fell on hard times as services like Twitter and Facebook emerged and captured the Web's attention. — Digg's founders fled to greener pastures …

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Bloomberg:

Diller Says Aereo Will Expand To Most Large U.S. Cities — Aereo Inc., the online television service backed by Barry Diller, will expand from New York to other large U.S. cities following a favorable court ruling, the 70-year-old billionaire said. — “We're going to really start marketing …

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Barry Diller making trouble for broadcasters — Barry Diller has reason to smile. — Barry Diller still likes to play the role of disruptor. — From his early days as a pioneering programmer who struck gold making movies for television to being the architect of the Fox network …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BBC Launches Localized iOS, Android Olympics Apps (Video Not Included Internationally) — The two-week countdown to the Olympics is on, and the big broadcasters are getting their ducks in line for how they will be streaming, tweeting, sharing, and generally filling your digital life with their own twists on big sporting event.

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, The Next Web, PC Magazine and Multichannel

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
NBC launches Olympics apps; one will stream every single event

Discussion: CNET

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Romney camp: Globe story ‘inaccurate’ — The Mitt Romney campaign is pushing back against today's Boston Globe report which found that, according to SEC filings, Romney served as CEO at Bain Capital until 2002, despite saying that he left in 1999. — “The article is not accurate,” …

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Globe denies Romney campaign correction request

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Erik Wemple:
Globe to credit TPM, Mother Jones in Bain-Romney story

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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle — People have been predicting the demise of cable television for years. After this week, they might be right. — Two small pieces of news yesterday could make for a big headache for TV. — First, Viacom yanked its 19 channels …

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes Real Time:
Viacom and DirecTV Are Both Right, But DirecTV Is Righter

Discussion: Home Media Magazine and Broadcasting & Cable

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Publishers' Online Headache — With mobile devices, magazines have more ways than ever to distribute their content—and more ways of getting ripped off. — Like the music and movie businesses before them, magazines are getting their own taste of piracy with the spread of tablets and handheld mobile devices.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Federica Cherubini / Editors Weblog:

Journalistic start-ups in Western Europe: survival is success — A study by author Nicola Bruno and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen published this year by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the Oxford University analysed the situation of the Western Europe emerging pure player journalistic start-ups.

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Bush House ceases BBC broadcasts after 71 years — World Service is relocating its remaining language services as part of a merger with the rest of BBC News — Seventy-one years of continuous broadcasting from Britain to the world from Bush House in central London has come to an end …

Discussion: mnilive.com and BBC

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Said to Be Deciding Fate of The Daily — News Corporation is deciding the fate of The Daily, the tablet publication that just over a year ago Rupert Murdoch, the company's chairman and chief executive, introduced as a digital savior of the printed news industry …

Discussion: The Wall Blog

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Has Nick Denton really reinvented comments? — Gawker Media and founder Nick Denton got a lot of attention earlier this year, including some from us at GigaOM, when the blog network launched a new commenting system called Kinja. At the time, Denton said he had grown dissatisfied with the state …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Nieman Journalism Lab

Annika McGinnis / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Congress considers prosecutions of reporters over leaked information — WASHINGTON — In response to New York Times stories that relied on leaks of sensitive national-security information, a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday discussed legislation that could allow journalists to be prosecuted for disclosing such information.

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