Mediagazer: Iger Gets Extension as Disney Chief Executive (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

5:10 PM ET, July 1, 2013

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Sunday shows: Snowden stalls in Moscow, but Assange says there's ‘no stopping’ his secrets — On Sunday morning, even after a week in which the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill and the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the most intriguing guest was Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Discussion: Variety, BBC and Softpedia News

Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times:

Edward Snowden asking 15 countries for asylum, Russian official says — MOSCOW — Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked U.S. security secrets and is now a fugitive, met Monday morning with Russian diplomatic officials and handed them an appeal to 15 countries …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Gawker, @ggreenwald, @reuters, Mashable, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web, Business Insider, Softpedia News, New York Magazine and Reuters

New York Times:

Putin Says Snowden Must Stop Hurting U.S. to Stay in Russia — MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said on Monday that Edward J. Snowden, the former national security staffer accused of espionage, would not receive political asylum in Russia unless he stops publishing classified documents that hurt the interests of the United States.

Discussion: RT, BBC, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, Boing Boing and Mashable

Eamonn Fingleton / Forbes:
Ed Snowden: The Explosive Questions The Press Is Not Asking

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Who's Winning at Volume in Publishing — Winning in digital media now boils down to a simple equation: figure out a way to produce the most content at as low a cost as possible. — In recent years, new players like The Huffington Post burst onto the scene by pumping out a dizzying amount of content each day.

Discussion: Strange Attractor, One Man & His Blog and MarketingVox News & Trends

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

The Independent Dish: Six Months In — We promised to keep you up to date with the new independent Dish's progress - and six months seems like a good time to summarize. The current number of subscribers to the Dish now stands at 27,349. I don't think there's a purely online site …

Discussion: paidContent

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Leela de Krester Is Leaving DNAinfo — Editorial director and publisher Leela de Krester is leaving DNAinfo.com, founder Joe Ricketts announced today in an email to staff. — “I wanted to let you know about a change at DNAinfo.com. After 4 years of dedicated work helping to establish the company …

Discussion: Capital New York

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

U.S. court throws out Google digital books class status — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday said a lawsuit against Google Inc's effort to create the world's largest digital books library should not have been allowed to proceed as a class action.

Discussion: The Laboratorium, PublishersWeekly.com, Mercury News, Plagiarism Today, CNET and Reuters

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Why Every Company In TV Is Trying To Merge — The three factors behind a massive wave of consolidation. — Content is king — which is why seemingly every company that distributes it, from local television stations to cable operators to satellite distributors, is trying to merge.

Discussion: Businessweek and Deadline.com

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune Co. buys 19 television stations in $2.7-billion deal

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reborn as publishing arm targets smartphones — Chief executive says company aims to ‘own the second screen’ through deals such as Sun's Premier League highlights service — News Corporation, the newly devolved publishing division in Rupert Murdoch's global empire starts …

Discussion: TVNewser, Bloomberg, Yahoo! News, The Raw Story, CNET, Digital TV Europe, Hollywood Reporter and The Huffington Post

Dylan Byers / Politico:

CNN airs Zimmerman's SSN, phone number — CNN appears to have broadcast the social security number and telephone number for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who is suspected of having killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., last February. — On Monday at 12:16 p.m. ET …

Discussion: Mediaite

David Carr / New York Times:

Journalism, Even When It's Tilted — In a refracted media world where information comes from everywhere, the line between two “isms” — journalism and activism — is becoming difficult to discern. As American news media have pulled back from international coverage, nongovernmental organizations …

Discussion: The Corsair, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Media Nation, BuzzMachine, Pressing Issues and Kirk LaPointe's …

Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:

How Wisconsin's watchdogs kept their home — Investigative newsroom drew on a network of allies in successful bid for governor's veto — DETROIT, MI — The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism scored a big win over the weekend, as Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican …

Discussion: WisconsinWatch.org, Nieman Journalism Lab, JSOnline, School of Journalism …, @jayrosen_nyu and Boing Boing

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

HuffPost Names Head of Business Development — Yaosh Ho is joining The Huffington Post as its new head of business development. Ho comes to the site from Google, where he created deals involving YouTube, Google Wallet and more. — Ho's duties at HuffPost will be similar to those he performed while at Google.

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Iger Gets Extension as Disney Chief Executive — Robert A. Iger will remain chief executive of the Walt Disney Company until July 2016, an extension of 15 months beyond his previously announced retirement date, the entertainment conglomerate said on Monday.

Discussion: The Wrap, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Variety and @lindsaygoldwert