Mediagazer: BBC 3D programming ‘on hold’ indefinitely (BBC)

7:05 PM ET, July 5, 2013

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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 Wrap, GigaOM, bizjournals, Variety, Wall St. Cheat Sheet and VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal: Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights

Nicky Woolf / The Atlantic Online:

The British Are Coming—And They've Brought Newspapers — An interview with the editor-in-chief of Guardian US, which broke the Edward Snowden story. The Guardian is looking to expand in the U.S. market. — Of the three English-language newspaper websites with the highest readerships, two are British.

Discussion: @saramorrison, @bobstep and @moorehn

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.

Discussion: GigaOM

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

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, FishbowlNY, The Daily Beast, 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

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

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

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Al Jareeza 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

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts — Jim Hollock's first book, a true-crime tale set in Pennsylvania, got strong reviews and decent sales when it appeared in 2011. Now “Born to Lose” is losing momentum — yet Amazon, to the writer's intense frustration, has increased the price by nearly a third.

Discussion: NYT Bits, Business Insider and GeekWire

Josh Stearns / Mediashift:

3 Ways to Strengthen Press Freedom at the U.S. Justice Department — Want to stay current on media and technology from around the web? Get MediaShift's Daily Must Reads in your in-box! — One of the most troubling things about the politicians and pundits who are calling …

Discussion: Erik Wemple

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, Reuters, AndroidHeadlines.com and The Verge

IFEX:

Journalists jailed, fined for critical reporting in Somaliland — The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the draconian sentences handed to two journalists by the Somaliland Court in Hargeisa. — Hassan Hussein Abdullahi, also known as Keefkeef, received a two-year jail term …

Discussion: Reporters Without Borders, Big News Network.com, Newstime Africa, Guardian and Kirk LaPointe's …