Mediagazer: LA Times Hit by Another Round of ‘Modest’ Layoffs (Sara Morrison/The Wrap)

11:35 PM ET, June 28, 2013

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Under Pressure, Scribd Yanks Ecuadorian Spy Documents — File sharing service pulls documents relating to Ecuador's domestic spying program “because Scribd received a legally valid claim of copyright infringement pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).”

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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Who is Leaking More: Edward Snowden or the Government Officials Condemning Him?

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Bloomberg:

News Corp. Splits Today. Now the Publishing Unit Has to Prove Doubters Wrong — Effort Underway for New York Post to Compete Nationally With Sites Like BuzzFeed — Rupert Murdoch bowed to investor pressure to split his six-decade-old publishing business from the rest of News Corp.'s media empire.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
News Corp Wants to Compete With BuzzFeed

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo To Sunset AltaVista, Axis, RSS Alerts, and Nine Other Products, Some As Soon As Today — Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is taking a page from her old employer, Google, and sunsetting 12 products, with some starting as soon as today. Included are AltaVista and other search products …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

DOJ Reportedly Did Not Subpoena NYT Phone Records In Leak Investigation — NEW YORK — The Justice Department did not issue a subpoena for New York Times phone records in a leak investigation following David Sanger's 2012 article on the U.S. and Israel developing a computer virus …

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Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire:
The Stuxnet Leaker Might Be the General Credited with Getting It Started

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Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:

Military Judge Deals Blow To Manning Defense — FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge dealt Bradley Manning's defense a blow on Friday, ruling that government prosecutors can enter two tweets from WikiLeaks into the trial record as circumstantial evidence against him.

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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

LA Times Hit by Another Round of ‘Modest’ Layoffs — At least 11 are believed to have been let go in the latest cutbacks — The Los Angeles Times has cut more employees in what the paper termed a “modest round of staff reductions” on Friday. — The layoffs coincided with the end …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Variety and LA Observed

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 …

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S.E.C. Begins an Inquiry of Thomson Reuters Data — Federal securities regulators have opened an inquiry into the media company Thomson Reuters and how it releases closely watched manufacturing data to its trading clients, a move that highlights the government's continued effort to understand …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

TouchCast Thinks It Can Create Smarter Web Videos Than YouTube — Startup pitches iPad app for creating interactive video broadcasts, which require its own media player — TouchCast is touting an app for creating Internet videos with fully interactive, live web elements far superior …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

In Louisiana, journalists face jail time for publishing gun info — Last Wednesday Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that imposes a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail for anyone who publishes “any information contained in an application for a concealed handgun permit …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

New Intel CEO Says Intel TV Sounds Great in Theory. But ... Since February, Intel executives have been promising to launch a Web TV subscription service sometime this year. And they're still making those promises. — But Intel also has a new CEO. And while Brian Krzanich is still supporting …

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