Mediagazer: Going live: Can new Director General Tony Hall overhaul the BBC? (Ian Burrell/The Independent)

7:10 AM ET, July 3, 2013

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David Sirota / Salon:

Meet the “Journalists Against Journalism” club! — The clique of media figures outraged when news outlets challenge power has a new member: Washington Post higher-ups — From David Gregory to Andrew Ross Sorkin to David Brooks, the ranks of Washington's hottest new club continues to swell.

Discussion: @jackshafer, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, The Huffington Post and Washington Post

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post's Unbelievable Snowden Editorial

Discussion: Washington Post, Reuters, @jackshafer, @bartongellman, @bartongellman, Techdirt, @davemc99ta, @africasacountry, Hit & Run, @jeffjarvis, @kpoulsen, Gawker, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, Gretawire, The Week, @mlcalderone and The Huffington Post

Wall Street Journal:
Snowden's Asylum Requests Draw Cold Responses

Discussion: Guardian

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is nearing a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) to give subscribers of the cable television service access to channels via Apple TV, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Going live: Can new Director General Tony Hall overhaul the BBC? — The honeymoon is over. His new team, minus a trusted deputy, is in place and a heaving intray of problems awaits. Ian Burrell rates his prospects — “The BBC's best days lie ahead of us,” Tony Hall wrote in his cheerleading introductory email to staff in April.

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Editorial Director Announces Departure Less Than Two Months After Promotion

Discussion: BBC and Guardian

Walter Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:

Deal for TV stations casts shadow on Tribune's credit rating — Peter Liguori, chief executive of Tribune Co., which had its S&P overall assessment of business prospects rise to “satisfactory” from “fair.” (Fox / Fox Broadcasting) — Tribune Co. went a full six months with unblemished credit.

Jon Friedman / The Fiscal Times:

TV News Searches for a 21st Century Winning Model — TV news is not an industry for the faint of heart. In journalism, there is an old saying: You're only as good as your last story - and nowhere is the axiom more apt than in a business with a swarm of network and cable competitors …

Discussion: @matthewwells, @ariannahuff and @jayrosen_nyu

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Viral video startup Justin.tv raising $20M round of funding — Justin.tv has raised $8.3 million of an intended $20 million funding round. — Justin.tv is a hot startup that offers live-streamed video services. It was one of the first live streaming platforms and continues …

Deborah Potter / NewsLab:

Salaries decline in local TV newsrooms — For the first time in four years, local TV news salaries have taken a dive. The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University survey says pay was down on average by almost 2% in 2012. If you factor in the rate of inflation, real wages were down by about 4%.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and TVSpy

Ed Christman / Billboard:

Pandora Cuts Direct Pub Deal With Universal Music Publishing (While Fighting Direct Pub Deals In Rate Court) — While Pandora is maneuvering to lower its music publishing rates, it has cut a short-term deal with Universal Music Publishing Group that according to sources would represent …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

YouTube renews Vevo deal, buys stake in company to keep music videos off Facebook — Google said today that it has renewed its agreement with Vevo, the music video distributor, keeping its popular programming on YouTube and preventing it from falling into the hands of its rivals.

Discussion: Billboard and CNET

Sarah Darville / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Evening Edition looks to build beyond its simple model — Mule Design co-founder Mike Monteiro has never argued that Evening Edition — the five-stories-delivered-at-5 o'clock news roundup from Mule Design — is a complicated idea. “Evening Edition is ridiculously, stupidly simple,” he told me.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Buys Qwiki for About $50 Million — As AllThingsD reported two weeks ago that it was likely to do, Yahoo said it has bought Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.

Discussion: Yahoo!, Qwiki, App Advice, VatorNews, CNET, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, @obrien, SocialTimes, TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, The Next Web, Business Insider, BBC, Inc.com, GigaOM, Softpedia News and WebProNews

Wall Street Journal:

Front-Runner Emerges for Time Inc. CEO — Michael Klingensmith, Who Was Time Inc. CFO, Stabilized Star Tribune — By - JOANN S. LUBLIN And - KEACH HAGEY - — Former Time Inc. Chief Financial Officer Michael Klingensmith is a leading contender to become chief executive of the magazine giant …

Discussion: The Wrap, Minneapolis Star Tribune and @peterlauria3