Mediagazer: The British Are Coming—And They've Brought Newspapers (Nicky Woolf/The Atlantic Online)

3:10 AM ET, July 6, 2013

Top News:

The British Are Coming—And They've Brought Newspapers — The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters in Hong Kong after the release of Edward Snowden's identity. (Vincent Yu/AP) — Of the three English-language newspaper websites with the highest readerships, two are British.

Discussion: @moorehn, @bobstep and @saramorrison

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Guardian gets online traffic boost from Snowden story, now nipping at NYT's heels — According to new figures, the Guardian set a one-day traffic record with its Snowden coverage, and has also seen its overall traffic grow to the point where it is likely close to matching the New York Times.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Silver Lake Abandons Hulu Purchase Effort, as Final Bidding Deadline Arrives Today — According to sources close to the situation, Silver Lake will not make a follow-on bid to buy the Hulu premium video service. The giant private equity firm had been allied in the effort …

Discussion: The Verge, bizjournals, Bloomberg, Variety, CNET, The Wrap, GigaOM, Wall St. Cheat Sheet and VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights — The big media companies that created Hulu endowed the online video provider with arguably its most valuable asset: access to the current seasons of hit network-TV shows. Now, as an auction of the site enters its final stages, with final bids due Friday …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

MuckRock cofounder plans to appeal NSA's response to his FOIA request — Michael Morisy didn't get the answer he was looking for after making a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Agency. Hoping to find out more about the NSA's Utah Data Center …

Discussion: @postbaron and @jcstearns

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape — In tape, Murdoch is heard admitting to Sun journalists that payments to public officials were part of 'culture of Fleet Street — Scotland Yard detectives were on Friday attempting to track down a secret recording of Rupert Murdoch admitting …

Discussion: Spiked, Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY, ExaroNews and pressgazette.co.uk

William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Private Eye broke Murdoch recording three weeks ago, so why is it only hitting the headlines now?

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk

Luis Manuel Galeno / Associated Press:

Nicaragua, Venezuela Offer Asylum to Snowden — CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered Friday to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane …

Discussion: Guardian, BBC, Business Insider, Firedoglake, www.wnyc.org, Engadget, Gawker and Associated Press

BBC:

BBC 3D programming ‘on hold’ indefinitely — The BBC is to suspend 3D programming for an indefinite period due to a “lack of public appetite” for the technology. — Kim Shillinglaw, the BBC's head of 3D, said it has “not taken off” with audiences who find it “quite hassly”.

Discussion: Radio Times, paidContent, CNET, New York Times, Guardian, Guardian, Den of Geek, The Next Web, Broadband TV News and The Wrap

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Al Jazeera America Still Has No Official Launch Date — News channel spokesperson says “the week of August 24,” but no set date yet — Despite media reports and employee tweets to the contrary, Al Jazeera America will not launch on Aug 20. An Al Jazeera spokesperson told TheWrap …

Sara Morrison / The Wrap: Soledad O'Brien Is Her Own Boss — and That Means No Jodi Arias Stories

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

New research suggests it's possible to automatically identify fake images on Twitter — One of the most challenging aspects of social media is figuring out how to efficiently verify information and stop the spread of misinformation during breaking news situation.

Discussion: @sdbrownlie

Eleanor Beardsley / Europe:

An Online Upstart Roils French Media, Politics … Every week, it seems, a new scandal is unearthed by the upstart, online newspaper Mediapart. The most recent bomb was that President Francois Hollande's budget minister was evading taxes when he was supposed to be cracking down on tax cheats.

Discussion: The Dish

Wall Street Journal:

SoftBank Gets Green Light for Merger With Sprint, Clearwire — By - DANNY YADRON and - THOMAS GRYTA - — SoftBank Corp.'s three-way merger with Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. won final approval from U.S. regulators with the unanimous backing of the Federal Communications Commission, people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, AndroidHeadlines.com, Reuters, The Verge and CNBC