Mediagazer: Amazon ordered to tighten its operations in China after counterfeit books show up for sale on its site (Josh Horwitz/The Next Web)

1:30 PM ET, June 28, 2013

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Phillip Molnar / Monterey County Herald:

Restricted web access to The Guardian is Army wide, officials say — The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Army wide. — Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since …

Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:

Who is Leaking More: Edward Snowden or the Government Officials Condemning Him? — In the month since the Guardian first started reporting on the surveillance documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the government has taken to the media to condemn his leaks and insist he is flagrantly violating the law.

Discussion: Boing Boing, BBC, Softpedia News and PolicyMic

Jack Shafer:

What an NSA charm offensive looks like — Banged and bruised in the press over the NSA secrets liberated by Edward Snowden and serialized in the Guardian and the Washington Post, the national security establishment resorted to a little media offense earlier this week with a series of conversations with major news outlets.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, @hbobrien and @ravisomaiya

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Anonymous Government Officials Use Media To Make Case Against Snowden — NEW YORK — In April 2011, the Associated Press reported that U.S. airstrikes in Yemen 15 months earlier had forced al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to reconsider how it communicates.

Discussion: Poynter, Pressthink, TVNewser, FAIR Blog, Fortune, @jayrosen_nyu, Business Insider and New York Times

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Hulu's on pause — Owners extend bidding, eyeing $1B — Hulu's owners have extended the deadline for second-round bids until next week to allow DirecTV more time to line up financing, The Post has learned. — The satellite-TV provider is expected to submit a bid of around $1 billion …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Variety, Business Insider and Hollywood Reporter

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Time Warner Cable to launch TV app on Xbox 360 — Time Warner Cable has made an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to bring its TV app to the tech giant's Xbox 360 devices. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg) — After already launching applications for smartphones, tablets and Roku's set-top boxes …

Discussion: Xbox Wire, Mashable, paidContent, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Beth Healy / Boston Globe:

At least five groups submit bids to buy The Boston Globe — At least five groups are believed to have submitted bids to buy the Boston Globe, according to several people involved in or briefed on the offers. — The bidders, whose offers were due Thursday at 5 p.m., include several of the names previously reported.

Discussion: Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Set to Sell Globe for Fraction of Purchase

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Reuters, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Tech Deals, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, 10,000 Words and New York Magazine

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The other tabloid war: ‘Mail Online’ and ‘Daily News’ duke it out in digital — Mail Online, the loud and lurid website of England's favorite middle-market tabloid, The Daily Mail, has a lot to brag about right now. — Since formally constituting its American operation …

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

News Corp Wants to Compete With BuzzFeed — News Corp got a new logo, but that's not the only change on the horizon for Rupert Murdoch's company as it gets ready for Friday's split, when the money-making entertainment arm, which includes 21st Century Fox and Fox News, will be spun off …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Politico

Telegraph:

Pearson denies talks of Financial Times sale to Murdoch — Pearson has denied it is in talks to sell the Financial Times to Rupert Murdoch and Abu Dhabi's state media group for about $1.2bn (£790m). — In July, the Financial Times launched the web-based version of its app …

Josh Horwitz / The Next Web:

Amazon ordered to tighten its operations in China after counterfeit books show up for sale on its site — This week, the Chinese government continues to signal its disapproval of pirating practices in China, as the country's National Copyright Administration has demanded Amazon “rectify” …

Discussion: Wall St. Cheat Sheet and CNET

Bloomberg:

John Malone Said to Explore Scenarios for Time Warner Cable Deal — Billionaire John Malone is exploring scenarios for how Charter (CHTR) Communications Inc. could acquire Time Warner Cable (TWC) Inc., even after his initial overtures were rebuffed, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Discussion: MoneyBeat and Deadline.com

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Five years of social media evolution at Al Jazeera — Evolution and revolution: Journalism.co.uk speaks to the head of social media at Al Jazeera about some of the key moments in reporting elections, protests and revolutions — When Riyaad Minty, who is now head of social media at Al Jazeera …

Krithika Krishnamurthy / Reuters:

Higher cable, satellite prices boost Shaw's profit — (Reuters) - Canada's Shaw Communications Inc reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results and raised its cash-flow forecast, sending its shares up 3 percent in early trading. — But the company, the dominant cable TV operator in Western Canada …

BBC:

Turkey seeks to tighten control over Twitter — The Turkish government has asked Twitter to set up an office inside the country so company representatives can be reached more easily. Both Twitter and Facebook were used to spread information during recent anti-government protests.

Discussion: @emilydparker