Mediagazer: Leveson To Be Grilled By MPs Later This Month (Sky News)

7:50 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 and The Huffington Post

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

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

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

Discussion: Guardian

Sky News:

Leveson To Be Grilled By MPs Later This Month — Lord Justice Leveson chaired last year's inquiry into press ethics — Lord Justice Leveson will give evidence to MPs about press regulation later this month. — The judge, who oversaw the inquiry into press ethics sparked by the phone hacking scandal …

Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph

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

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

US government rests its case in Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial — Admission that army has mislaid standard contract signed by private boosts defence hopes of having some charges dismissed — The US government rested its case against the WikiLeaks source, Bradley Manning on Tuesday …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Reuters and Democracy Now

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 …

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 …

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

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.