Mediagazer: Aereo wins major court battle against TV networks (T.C. Sottek/The Verge)

6:00 PM ET, April 1, 2013

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Aereo wins major court battle against TV networks — The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just rejected an appeal from TV networks against Aereo, concluding that Aereo's system does not infringe the broadcaster's copyrights. Broadcasters argued that unlike Cablevision …

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo

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David Carr / New York Times:

Columbia Looks Ahead in an Age of Disruption — Entering Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on the Upper West Side of New York, there is academic majesty wherever you look. — Past the lamps with the iron claws and the statue of Jefferson ("Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press" …

Discussion: newsplexer, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @markcoddington and @fredamoon

Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:

The Vice Guide to the World — Late in February, in the Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Indoor Stadium, in Pyongyang, North Korea, ten thousand stiff-looking spectators in gray Mao suits gathered to watch a basketball game. Vice Media, the Brooklyn-based company, had arranged to have members …

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David Kravets / Wired:

Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules — A federal judge is declaring as unlawful a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital music files. — ReDigi, which opened in late 2011, provides a platform to buy and sell used MP3s that were once purchased lawfully through iTunes.

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Reuters:
Capitol wins digital records lawsuit vs ReDigi start-up

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget says Business Insider is growing, but it's still losing money — When Business Insider founder Henry Blodget opened up about his website's traffic and business model a few months ago, we noted that he didn't reveal the most important thing about it — namely, whether it was profitable or not.

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Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle — Joe Ricketts doesn't think small. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and — with family members — buy the Chicago Cubs.

Discussion: Street Fight, Kirk LaPointe's … and Change of Subject

Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Someone at NBC should be fired — Comcast's Steve Burke has landed in the middle of an old-fashioned network drama at NBCUniversal — Brian Stelter, a young reporter who covers the television industry for The New York Times, has been tweeting a countdown to the publication of his new book about morning television.

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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:

Obama 'Limiting Press Access In Ways That Past Administrations Wouldn't Have Dared' — WASHINGTON (AP) — A photo of the Obamas hugging that was released on Election Day 2012 has become the world's most popular tweet on Twitter. A dressed-up version of Barack Obama's State of the Union speech …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Nat'l Magazine Award finalists announced — The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards, or Ellies, which are considered the most prestigious awards in the industry. — On the political front, Bloomberg Businessweek's …

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Guardian:

New BBC director general begins task of mending corporation's reputation — Tony Hall will spend first day speaking to staff as he embarks on restoring public confidence in corporation after Savile scandal — Tony Hall will begin the job of repairing the BBC's battered reputation when he takes …

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal — Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's …

Erik Maza / WWD:

Hearst's New CEO Steve Swartz Talks Business, Succession — NEW YORK — Frank Bennack Jr. had some advice for Steve Swartz. It was 2000 and Swartz was the editor in chief of Smart Money magazine, which he founded eight years earlier after a career that had been on fast-forward at The Wall Street Journal.

Hank Green:

Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole — For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow. We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …

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