Mediagazer: 2 UK journalists for UK's The Sun newspaper face charges relating to corruption probe (Associated Press)

10:00 AM ET, June 21, 2013

Top News:

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

Scott Shackford / Hit & Run:

'Aaron's Law' Proponents Talk About Restraining Prosecutorial Abuse — After open access activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing federal prosecution for downloading academic journals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Rep. Zoe Lofgren began crafting “Aaron's Law.”

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: Reuters and Hollywood Reporter

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Michael Hastings, the FBI, and WikiLeaks: Death of Journalist Sparks Conspiracy Theories

Discussion: Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Informer, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine

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

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Columbia's Sreenivasan Bolts for New Digital Job at New York's Metropolitan Museum — Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Sree Sreenivasan, a longtime presence at Columbia University — first at its Graduate School of Journalism, and then more recently as its first chief digital officer …

Discussion: Capital New York, Columbia University … and @atompkins

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 and AdPulp

Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
Oregonian Publisher Says Paper is Reducing Home Delivery Days, Laying Off Staff

Discussion: Poynter, Oregonian, Poynter, bizjournals, The New York Observer, @jackshafer, @editorswindler, @annargriff, @annargriff, @annargriff, @annargriff, @kacw and @aaronmesh

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.

Associated Press:

2 UK journalists for UK's The Sun newspaper face charges relating to corruption probe — LONDON — Two journalists for The Sun newspaper will be charged with allegedly paying public officials for information about psychiatric patients and a member of the royal family, British authorities said Friday.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, BBC, Guardian and Telegraph

Tom Wright / India Real Time:

India Media Buries Paid News Report … A major new report on the phenomenon of paid news in India's media is, well, hardly making big news. — The report, submitted to Parliament last month by the Standing Committee on Information Technology, is pretty racy stuff.

Discussion: WAN-IFRA

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: Slate

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists in exile 2013 — Somalis, Syrians flee violence; Iran crackdown deepens — Fifty-five journalists fled their homes in the past year with help from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The most common reason to go into exile was the threat of violence, such as in Somalia and Syria …

Discussion: Voice of America

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

iTunes users spend a lot on apps and music, not so much on ebooks (chart) — On Wednesday morning Apple revealed the latest stats on iTunes video: users have downloaded 1 billion TV episodes and 380 million movies total, at the rate of 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day.

Discussion: Billboard, AllThingsD and AppleInsider

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 …

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

WomenEdsWeLove creator: Female editors ‘are not invisible’ & 'they're not that hard to find' — Port Magazine's recent cover, featuring all male magazine editors, prompted journalists to ask an obvious question: Where are all the female editors? — Wanting to show there are plenty of them …

Amanda Hess / Slate: Here's Why Women's Magazines Don't Produce “Serious” Journalism

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Closes Its Purchase Of Tumblr For $1.1B, Reconfirms Karp At The Helm Of Social Site — In a week where Tumblr CEO David Karp did the rounds at the Cannes Lions advertising confab in France, Yahoo has now confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of the social network and blogging site …