Mediagazer: Big News Forges Its Own Path (David Carr/New York Times)

12:40 PM ET, June 17, 2013

Top News:

Big News Forges Its Own Path — During a visit to Toronto last week, I noticed the entire city was pivoting around a story by Gawker, a site that has a broad range of interests, but at its core is dedicated to detailing the running silliness of life in Manhattan.

Discussion: paidContent, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, Washington's Blog, Guardian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mashable and ZDNet

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 — We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Fast Company, The Verge, GeekWire, WebProNews, ANIMAL, Pocket-lint, CNET, App Advice, Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, Electronista and AllThingsD

Jessica Grose / New Republic:

Can Women's Magazines Do Serious Journalism? — Some people don't think so ... Last week, the feminist Internet exploded with censure for the British quarterly Port Magazine. The magazine's transgression? Publishing a cover story about “A New Golden Age” of print media and featuring six white, male editors.

Discussion: The Hairpin

Sky News:

No Agreement Over Julian Assange's Future — The British and Ecuadorian governments have failed to reach an agreement over the future of Julian Assange after talks in London. — Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino had travelled to Britain to discuss what to do about the Wikileaks founder …

Discussion: RT, ABC News, Agence France Presse, Channel NewsAsia, HeraldSun and ITV News

BBC:
Julian Assange: Ecuador will continue to grant asylum

Discussion: The Independent, The Register, Reuters, Daily Mail and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Sharyl Attkisson Speaks Out About ‘Serious And Disturbing’ Computer Hacking: 'I'm Outraged' — On Friday, a CBS News internal investigation revealed that investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson's personal and work computers had been compromised. “Sophisticated” methods were used to access …

Discussion: TVNewser and Erik Wemple

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Links Up With DreamWorks Again for More Kids' Shows — More kids' stuff for Netflix, this time via another DreamWorks Animation deal. — The Web video service will have exclusive worldwide first-run rights to a new batch of original programming from the studio …

Discussion: paidContent, The Wrap, PR Newswire, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Home Media Magazine, Variety, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, Reuters, CNET, Reuters, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Michelle Salemi / Variety:

Can Local News Take On Watchdog Role? — Some observers think the Web is better-placed to report on civic issue — Can local TV news really fill the watchdog role in the 21st century that local newspapers did in the 20th? — CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer advanced the theory …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days — The DOJ will rest its case. Apple will present its defense. Summations on Thursday. — FORTUNE — Eddy Cue, the alleged “ringmaster” of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday …

Discussion: AllThingsD, AppleInsider and Melville House Books

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

With More Than 2.5B Monthly Video Views, Fullscreen Closes Funding From Chernin Group, Comcast, And WPP — Online multichannel network Fullscreen has become the latest in a series of YouTube partners to raise funding. The company has officially closed a funding round led by The Chernin Group …

Discussion: Guardian, Adweek, AdAge, PandoDaily, Los Angeles Times, Venture Capital Dispatch, Variety and Billboard

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Wikimedia Foundation says it hasn't received any PRISM requests, asks how it should respond next — The Wikimedia Foundation is the latest high-profile technology company to issue a public statement on PRISM, a confidential program created by the National Security Agency (NSA) …

Discussion: ZDNet and SlashGear

Mark Harris / PopWatch:

Arrested Development and the case against binge-watching — The best TV is as addictive as a tub of ice cream, but as Jenny Craig and the new Arrested Development episodes remind us, moderation is wise. — How strange that it already feels too late to talk about the return of Arrested Development.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Hearst Magazines' one million new customers — Take this quiz. The era of paying for digital access (a.k.a. digital circulation or paywalls) is about: — Getting more money out of core subscribers; — Getting new money out of new subscribers; or — Getting money any way you can.

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

LinkedIn Builds Its Publishing Presence — LinkedIn came of age as the staid social media platform for business professionals: reliable, utilitarian and, well, boring. — Unlike Twitter or Facebook, which are hives of message activity that attract constant monitoring …

Discussion: Forbes and eMedia Vitals