Mediagazer: A Reality TV Show, Minus the TV (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Greek journalists defy government order to close state broadcaster — ERT, Hellenic Broadcasting Corp, was ordered to shut down as part of public spending cuts, but remained on air via the internet — • Click here to see ERT's Ustream broadcast — Journalists from Greece's state …

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk, ebu.ch and Associated Press

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: ERT shutdown: European Broadcasting Union sets up makeshift studio

Reuters: Greece says to relaunch state TV in weeks as protests mount

Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:
Greece Shutting Down State Broadcaster Net

Discussion: RT

Washington Post:

The Washington Post Launches “Sponsored Views” — New Online Advertising Product Invites Groups to Add Perspectives to Opinion Columns — The Washington Post today announces “Sponsored Views,” a new online advertising feature that invites organizations to post commentary related …

Washington Post's ‘Sponsored Views’ will let advertisers respond to opinion pieces — A new advertising feature called “Sponsored Views” will allow “organizations to post commentary related to or in response to content from The Washington Post's Opinion section,” the Post says in a press release.

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

News Corp split ‘paves way for new BSkyB bid’ — News Corp has jumped the last hurdle in its plans to split into two, raising expectations that Rupert Murdoch's empire will renew its attempts to take over BSkyB. — James Murdoch was forced to step down as chairman of News Inetrnational and …

Meg James / Los Angeles Times: News Corp. says no settlement with U.S. Department of Justice

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Investors Approve Breakup Plan

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian, New York Times, paidContent, BBC, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Seeking Alpha

Christopher Harrison / The Hill:

Why Pandora bought an FM radio station — The internet isn't just the future of radio; it is radio. Today, 70+ million Americans listen to Pandora, accounting for more than 7 percent of all U.S. radio listening. Our Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken …

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET, The Next Web, SocialTimes, BGR, Hillicon Valley, Bloomberg, The Verge, CNNMoney.com, hypebot and Engadget

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Radio Ink Magazine and Seeking Alpha

Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV — Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel Corp. (INTC) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), people with knowledge of the matter said.

Discussion: FierceOnlineVideo News

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Tribune Papers' Sale Clouded by Digital Assets — As Tribune Co. prepares to auction off its newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, a question has emerged about the impact on the papers' ties to crucial digital assets—Tribune's interest in CareerBuilder.com and Classified Ventures LLC.

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

How Journalists Really Feel About the Digital Evolution — It's a no-brainer that digital technology is impacting newsgathering and reporting globally. How much? A survey of journalists worldwide by the Oriella PR Network, an alliance of PR agencies, found that 39 percent consider themselves …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Jason Gilbert / Yahoo! News:

Netflix to launch user profiles later this summer — LOS ANGELES — Sharing your Netflix account with a friend or lover who has dramatically different taste in movies than you do? Soon, there will be no need to worry about getting your Netflix recommendations all mixed up with theirs.

Discussion: Betabeat, WebProNews, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

The Huffington Post:

Fox News Reporter's Hearing Begins Today — NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a New York City-based reporter who's being asked to name her sources in a story on the Colorado theater shooting are asking an appellate court to quash a subpoena that requires her to testify.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Alison Flood / Guardian:

Bradley Manning trial to be recreated in comic-book form — Graphic artist Clark Stoeckley in courtroom to record ongoing trial of WikiLeaks soldier — • See pictures from the novel-in-progress — A comic of the Bradley Manning trial, produced live from the courtroom …

Discussion: Pressing Issues

Discussion: pressfreedomfoundation.org and Boing Boing

Associated Press:

‘TV Everywhere’ mobile initiative still hasn't gotten there, executives admit — Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts gestured as he spoke during The Cable Show 2013 convention in Washington on Tuesday. — WASHINGTON — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

New York Times brings magazine experience to the web — The New York Times Magazine has been re-imagined for the web, built with HTML5 technologies and following a responsive design — Copyright: By adKinn on Flickr. Some Rights Reserved. — “It's clear that the tenurable model …

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

A Reality TV Show, Minus the TV — ‘Summer Break’ Follows Nine Teenagers, but Only Through Social Media Like Twitter, Instagram — LOS ANGELES—Two teenage boys sit by the airport here, competing to use their phones to take the best “selfie,” or self-portrait, with planes landing in the background.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

In Bangkok, with the Fast Movers — The WAN-IFRA congress in Bangkok showed good examples of the newspaper industry's transformation. Here are some highlights. — Last week, I travelled to Bangkok for the 65th congress of the World Association of Newspapers (The WAN-IFRA also includes …