Mediagazer: Americans Worked Less, Watched More TV in 2012 (Neil Shah/Wall Street Journal)

8:35 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: Ars Technica, Broadcasting & Cable, 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.”

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

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: Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, The Informer, Gawker, USA Today, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, LAist, Fox News, Daily Mail, The Wrap, The Rancid Honeytrap, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

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

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

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 …

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

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

Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

Howard Kurtz Joining Fox News To Anchor New Version Of Fox News Watch — Mediaite has learned that Fox News is expected to announce today that Howard Kurtz will join the network. — Kurtz is currently the anchor of CNN's Sunday morning media criticism show Reliable Sources.

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

New York Times:

Warner Brothers Studio Chief Said to Be Weighing Exit — LOS ANGELES — The president of the Warner Brothers Pictures Group, Jeff Robinov, was in still-unresolved discussions late Thursday to leave the studio, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Deadline.com, Variety, @elmayimbe, @davidpoland and Deadline.com

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 …