Mediagazer: First Round Capital wants to be Harvard Business Review for startup founders (Eliza Kern/GigaOM)

4:00 AM ET, June 29, 2013

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Profit at L.A. Times owner Tribune Co. plummets 41% — Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times, KTLA-TV and other media properties, reported declines in first-quarter income and revenue. Above, the front entrance of Tribune Tower in Chicago. (M. Spencer Green / AP / March 30, 2007)

Discussion: The Breakdown and LA Observed

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

BuzzFeed:

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).”

Discussion: Techdirt and @moorehn

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

Discussion: Poynter, Boing Boing, BBC, Softpedia News and Monterey County Herald

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 …

Discussion: Yahoo!, Search Engine Land, SocialTimes, The Next Web, @mat, @evelynrusli, The Verge, AllThingsD, CNET and Engadget

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.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Financial Times, @rajunarisetti, News Corp, @davewiner, @bmorrissey, @edgecliffe, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Capital New York, CNNMoney.com, FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

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

Discussion: Variety, Broadcasting & Cable and Politico

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, Mashable and RT

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 …

DealBook:

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 …

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

First Round Capital wants to be Harvard Business Review for startup founders — First Round Capital is announcing Friday that it's going to be taking the insights learned from its portfolio companies and launching a series of blog posts that give tactical advice to startup founders …

Discussion: The Next Web, First Round Capital, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, Forbes and TechCrunch

RT:

Turkish government combing Twitter in search of protest organizers to arrest — Turkish government officials are investigating Twitter and similar social media platforms in an attempt to identify and eventually prosecute the organizers of mass demonstrations, Erodgan administration officials said this week.

Discussion: Associated Press

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 …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal, New York Times and Mashable

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

Discussion: NBC News Investigations, Slate, Gawker, Voice of America and New York Magazine

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 …

Discussion: @jbenton

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 …

Discussion: Reuters