Mediagazer: USA Today and MLB Advanced Media Launch Sports on Earth (Charlie Warzel/Adweek)

5:50 AM ET, July 26, 2012

Top News:

Twitter, Hollywood Working on In-Stream Video Series — Forget the debate over whether Twitter wants to get in the media business. Twitter wants to be a media player. — The San Francisco, Calif.-based company, along with multiple Hollywood producers and network execs …

Discussion: CNET, Business Insider, Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, WebProNews, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, @jeffjarvis, NetNewsCheck Latest, Betabeat, NYT Bits and Quotes and Snippets

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Is Twitter a Media or Technology Company? — If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it's a duck — right? — One question many seem to be wondering about Twitter: is this duck a media or technology company? — In a meeting at The New York Times offices in New York …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Diller: Newsweek Not Dead Yet, But Get Ready For Big Changes — If Newsweek ceases to exist as a print magazine sometime in the next year, don't say Barry Diller didn't warn you. — On IAC's second-quarter earnings call, the chairman and controlling owner addressed the question …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …, WWD Media Headlines, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Poynter, @peterlauria3, @dylanbyers, AllThingsD, NetNewsCheck Latest, Reuters, Politico, The New York Observer and Erik Wemple

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The NYT's Bill Keller on why we should defend WikiLeaks — In a post on Tuesday entitled “First they came for WikiLeaks, then the New York Times,” we wrote about how there is growing evidence that Congress and the Justice Department may be considering legal sanctions against traditional journalists …

Discussion: GigaOM

Will Oremus / Slate:
Judge Rules That Wikileaks Cables Are Still Secret

Discussion: NEWS.com.au and The FJP

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jessica Ghawi scholarship raises more than $30,000 in a day — A fund set up by the family of murdered sports journalist Jessica Ghawi hit its fundraising goal less than a day after it was announced Tuesday. The family hoped to raise $20,000; as I write this, the fund is at $30,155.

Discussion: KXAN-TV, MySanAntonio.com and The Newspaper Guild

Tim Stenovec / The Huffington Post:
James Taranto, WSJ Editor, Tweets Controversial Aurora Shooting Comment, Issues ‘Mea Culpa’

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Erik Wemple

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Brauchli: Washington Post reporters will need editor's approval to share drafts with sources — Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli says the paper's policy on sharing drafts with sources will get more restrictive after the Texas Observer reported that a Post reporter sent drafts of a story to the University of Texas.

Discussion: City Desk, Politico and The Texas Observer

Erik Wemple:
Post reporter criticized for . . . checking his facts

Discussion: Washington Post, City Desk and mediabistro.com

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

Romney advisor accuses Donilon of leaking to the New York Times — A top advisor to Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday accused U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon of leaking classified intelligence information to New York Times reporter David Sanger.

Discussion: Wired and ThinkProgress

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post: David Axelrod: White House Did Not Leak Classified Information

Elon Green / The Awl:

Maureen Dowd, Cub Reporter — It's easy to look at our media industrial complex and forget that its members were once young and hungry, that they had to hustle, grease sources and report stories within an inch of life. One can imagine these scrappers delirious just to see a byline buried on B4 or, God forbid, a sidebar.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Corsair and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jay Rosen / Salon:

Don't bust bogus “hype” — Why Salon's article on Reddit's Aurora reporting ticked me off — My journalism day began with a groan when I read “Hold the Reddit Hype” by Michael Barthel. ("The site broke important Aurora news, but ‘crowdsourced’ journalism is as sensational and market-driven as the MSM.")

Discussion: CJR, The Week and Capital New York

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Fast Chat: Erik Martin on Reddit's Coverage of the Aurora Theater Massacre

Thanks:@cwarzel

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Ars Technica fights through hassles to sell John Siracusa's OS X review as an ebook — Almost exactly a year ago, when Apple released Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Ars Technica put a spin on a time-honored tradition: The website published John Siracusa's epic review of the software free of charge …

Discussion: ZDNet, Hypercritical, Marco.org, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Federico Viticci, CNET, TeleRead and VentureBeat

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:

USA Today and MLB Advanced Media Launch Sports on Earth — While bursting with opportunity, the ongoing digital disruption of the publishing industry has brought with it monumental uncertainties, layoffs, and, in some cases, wholesale destruction of some media outlets.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google TV will get its own version of AirPlay — Google will bring AirPlay-like functionality to its Google TV platform, allowing users to play and control media directly from their Android tablet or handset, GigaOM has learned. The functionality will first be available via Google's YouTube app …

Muck Rack:

The evolution of AP's social media policy — A wise man once said the only constant is change. With its third social media policy change in less than a year, the Associated Press is putting that saying to the test. — Yesterday the AP revamped its social media policy.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks criticises Met police chief — Former News International chief says deputy assistant commissioner's testimony led to ‘highly damaging’ reporting — Rebekah Brooks has launched an attack on the police chief in charge of the investigations into allegations of wrongdoing at the Sun and the News of the World.