Mediagazer: TV Entrepreneur Brian Bedol Has Raised $15 Million To Disrupt Cable Networks (Alyson Shontell/Business Insider)

11:05 AM ET, September 4, 2012

Top News:

Martin Evans / Telegraph:

More than 1,000 people identified as victims of hacking — More than 1,000 people have been identified as likely victims of hacking, the police officer leading the investigation into the scandal said today. Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Sue Akers, told the Home Affairs Select Committee …

Jason Deans / Guardian:

Phone hacking investigations and prosecutions ‘could take three years’ — Senior Scotland Yard officer Stephen Kavanagh is to take over Sue Akers's role overseeing the investigations into phone hacking and other alleged illegal activities by journalists, with the police budgeting for the process …

Discussion: @lisaocarroll

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Based on His Experience at the RNC, Network Producer Cancels Plans to Cover the DNC — Is the cost associated with network television coverage of the conventions over the top? Could the money be put to better use doing long-form reporting about critical issues facing the nation?

Dylan Byers / Politico:
DNC 2012: Press puts a new spin on Obama

Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air, CNN, Erik Wemple and Big News Network.com

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Don't Want to Be Mistaken for a Prostitute? Don't Get into Samsung's Creepy Limo — We're getting close to a decade into tech blogging — one of the least filtered, most revenge-seeking forms of journalism ever created. Most of the PR angst in this era has centered around how you handle angry bloggers.

Karan Bajaj / KaranBajaj.in: Clearing the air around Samsung Mob!lers vs Indian bloggers fiasco

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Samsung “deeply apologizes” to Indian blogger: We put you through undue hardship

Discussion: Guardian, Business Insider, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning's lawyer demands sentence cut — The civilian lawyer of Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of transferring hundreds of thousands of state secrets to WikiLeaks, is demanding that at least seven years be lopped off any sentence he might be given on grounds that he was improperly treated while in military custody.

Nicholas Watt / Guardian: UK tells Ecuador Assange can't be extradited if he faces death penalty

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: WikiLeaks supporters take down Swedish government sites with DDOS attacks

David Carr / New York Times:

Left Alone by Its Owner, Reddit Thrives — There are many ways to measure the traction of a social media platform: time spent, page views or unique users. But it might be useful to add one more metric: if the leader of the free world stops by to answer questions from your users, you're probably doing O.K.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Business Insider

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Reporters: We loathe 2012 campaign — Is that all there is? — Presidential campaigns are supposed to be the greatest show in American politics—infused with big ideas and historical import. Yet after 16 months enduring a Republican primary and then a two-man contest so far defined by gaffes …

Discussion: Poynter, Tampa Bay Times, Mediaite, @juliemmoos and The Huffington Post

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

World Press Trends: 2.2% of newspaper ad revenues from digital — The annual World Press Trends survey by the World Association of Newspapers and Publisher (WAN-IFRA) has highlighted a “lack of intensity” in digital news consumption, which it says is being shown in the digital revenue shares reported by newspapers.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Media News and eMedia Vitals

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

TV Entrepreneur Brian Bedol Has Raised $15 Million To Disrupt Cable Networks — Brian Bedol has had an fantastic career as both a startup founder and TV executive. In 1995, he launched Classic Sports Network and sold it to ESPN for $175 million. He later founded College Sports Television and sold it to CBS for $325 million.

Frédéric Filloux / Guardian:

Why newspapers must raise their price — The news market is splitting and revenue is not easy to squeeze out of digital subscribers and advertisers — For quite a while, I've been advocating a newspapers price hike. My take: the news market is undergoing an irreversible split.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Twitter Is Looking For A Data Editor To, Um, Tell Compelling Stories Based On Its Data — Twitter has a fair number of open jobs available, but this one caught our eye: The startup is looking for a data editor to make sense of and tell stories around its user data.

Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:

‘Good Girls’ Fight to Be Journalists — WHEN I graduated from college, before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 took effect, sex discrimination was legal. I wanted to write for a newspaper or newsmagazine, but despite an armload of credentials and skills, I soon learned the score …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

NBC rebrands Olympics app as NBC Sports Live Extra, promises streams for a wider athletic universe — NBC's Olympics Live Extra may have lost its original raison d'être after the flame was extinguished in London, but that doesn't mean it's time to purge the app from your phone's home screen.