Mediagazer: iTunes users spend a lot on apps and music, not so much on ebooks (chart) (Erica Ogg/GigaOM)

12:50 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

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, The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, Hillicon Valley, Broadcasting & Cable, 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

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

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, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter and New York Magazine

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: @daveweigel, @daveweigel, @ledbetreuters, @hamiltonnolan 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

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

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

BBC:

David Dinsmore replaces Dominic Mohan as Sun editor — David Dinsmore is to replace Dominic Mohan as editor of the Sun newspaper. — Mr Mohan, who has held the post since 2009, is to move on to a new strategic advisory role. — The move comes as part of a series of changes following …

Discussion: Guardian, pressgazette.co.uk, thetimes.co.uk, National Updates and @dansabbagh

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Local TV Bids Expected to Fetch Up to $2.5 Billion — Final bids are due Friday in the auction of Local TV LLC's 19 television stations, expected to fetch between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, potentially making it the biggest in a series of recent TV station deals.

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

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

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