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2:10 PM ET, June 21, 2013

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Digital First Media partners with NewsCred for content boost — A legacy newspaper company led by a digital evangelist appears to have made a shrewd move by partnering with an up-and-coming tech-heavy syndication service. — Two of the more forward-looking companies in the digital news space announced …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and NetNewsCheck Latest

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Paton: ‘Bad CEOs and worse editors’ are trying to ‘kill our future’ — Speaking at the Global News Editors conference in Paris, Digital First Media CEO John Paton said Friday that “editors resisting change are aided and abetted by lousy CEOs and news executives.”

Discussion: Digital First, paidContent, Market Wire and Quotes and Snippets

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

It's no accident Facebook made Instagram's new videos exactly as long as a television commercial — Facebook is going to get us all watching television ads again. — Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Facebook acquired last year, just added the ability to share videos, as well.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, Slate, Digiday, The Week, GigaOM, BuzzFeed, WebProNews, The New Yorker Blog, Engadget, The Verge and Guardian

Nick Statt / ReadWrite:

How Instagram Remade Photography (And Could Do The Same For Video) — On a stage at Facebook headquarters Thursday, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom didn't say much about photos—except to note that its 130 million users have taken 16 billion of them. Now, as Systrom pushes the photo-sharing service …

Discussion: CNET

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The ax falls at The Oregonian — Not that long ago, The Oregonian was one of the better news organizations in the country. — In 2008, Editor & Publisher named Sandy Rowe and Peter Bhatia its Editors of the Year and reported that The Oregonian had 315 full-time journalists in its newsroom the year before.

Discussion: Oregon Business, Oregonian, bizjournals, AdPulp and Willamette Week

Wired:

Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The Internet is up for grabs. — Foreign countries want to control it. Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions. ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Slate, Ars Technica, The Huffington Post, Hillicon Valley, Techdirt, The Verge, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Raw Story, RT and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: 'Aaron's Law' Proponents Talk About Restraining Prosecutorial Abuse

Howard Sherman / Monkey See:

AP Kills Off-Broadway, Opera, Dance Reviews: Will It Hurt The Arts? … Ever so quietly this week, the national arts scene became a bit more fragmented, a bit more stratified and a lot more invisible. The Associated Press has just spiked regular coverage of opera, dance and off-Broadway theater.

Discussion: Poynter and BroadwayWorld.com

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media ‘Journolist’ — Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of “Journolist,” a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal!

Discussion: Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, @pjtatler, @daveweigel, @delrayser, @j_strong, @moorehn, @daveweigel, @daveweigel, @hamiltonnolan, @ledbetreuters and Softpedia News

Los Angeles Times:

FBI says journalist Michael Hastings was not under investigation — LAPD also says no foul play appears to have been involved in the one-vehicle crash that killed Hastings. The reporter was known for an article leading to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation.

Discussion: USA Today, LA Observed, Reuters, The Informer, Hollywood Reporter and New York Magazine

Nicholas Vinocur / Reuters:

France to seek ban on Amazon bundled discounts, free delivery — (Reuters) - France's Socialist government aims to introduce a law preventing online retailer Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, the culture minister said, arguing this amounts to unfair competition.

Discussion: Businessweek, Mashable, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Wired's Danger Room Blog Is in Danger — The heavily-trafficked national security blog's core writers have moved on and Wired is still looking into its options — Is Wired.com's Danger Room blog done? It sure looks like it. — All four of the national security blog's core contributors …

Discussion: @michael__mayday and @nbj914

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

For HBO and Apple, a long process to partner on TV — HBO built the Apple TV app in-house for the first time ever — To some, Apple TV seems like a laggard. — The web TV box that Apple has referred to for years as a “hobby” is only now offering access to shows and events from HBO and ESPN — long after Roku and Xbox.

Discussion: TUAW, AppleInsider and MacRumors

Neil Shah / Wall Street Journal:

Americans Worked Less, Watched More TV in 2012 — With the economy struggling to find its footing, Americans spent less time at work last year and found more time for leisure activities such as watching television, a new government survey finds. — The average American aged 15 or older spent three hours …

Discussion: New Republic