Mediagazer: Journalist shot dead in Russia's Dagestan province (Reuters)

3:45 PM ET, July 9, 2013

Top News:

Hulu Attracts at Least Three Bids — Streaming video site Hulu attracted binding bids from suitors including satellite operator DirecTV, DTV -0.28% a partnership of AT&T Inc. T -0.70% and Chernin Group and the tandem of Guggenheim Digital Media and private-equity firm KKR, KKR +2.31% according to people familiar with the matter.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Hulu Sale Attracts Plenty Of Bidders, But For What, Exactly? — Most of what you need to know about the soon-to-conclude negotiations to sell Hulu can be summarized in two numbers: $2 billion and $1 billion. — The first is how much Hulu's owners — Disney, News Corp . and Comcast …

Discussion: Variety

Bloomberg:
DirecTV Makes Hulu Bid as Time Warner Cable Seeks Stake

Discussion: Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Deadline.com, AllThingsD, @jasonhirschhorn, CNET, @andyfixmer, multichannel.com/rss, Broadcasting & Cable and Los Angeles Times

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Former News Corp Digital Exec Jon Miller Joins Shari Redstone's Advancit as Partner — Former News Corp digital head Jon Miller has joined Advancit Capital as a partner. Advancit is an early-stage investment firm that was started two years ago by Shari Redstone and Jason Ostheimer …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Exaro to hand over Murdoch tape to Elveden officers as Met launches probe into Sun chief's comments — The investigative journalism website that revealed details of a meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Sun journalists arrested in connection bribing public officials has agreed to hand the recordings to the police.

Discussion: Channel 4, Guardian, Variety, Exaro and Hollywood Reporter

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rupert Murdoch Summoned To Parliament Again

Discussion: Guardian, @lisaocarroll, Press Gazette, Salon, The Independent and @jackofkent

Reuters:

Journalist shot dead in Russia's Dagestan province — (Reuters) - A journalist who wrote about alleged human rights abuses was shot dead in Russia's violence-plagued North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Tuesday, law enforcement authorities and colleagues said.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, The Moscow Times, nst.com.my, en.ria.ru, RT and The Independent

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Publisher Ambitions Target Comics With New “Jet City” Imprint Launch — Amazon is about to take on Marvel and DC with a new publishing imprint for comics, the company announced today via press release. The new publishing brand is called “Jet City Comics,” and will begin …

Discussion: Business Wire, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, CNET, PublishersWeekly.com, GalleyCat, The Huffington Post and SlashGear

Sydney Brownstone / Co.Exist:

Twitter Vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster — The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a lead time on newswires for certain stories—including sports, disasters, and sometimes riots.

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Criticizing CNN: Goodbye to that — I used to say: I criticize because I care. But I no longer do. … As of today, I have retired from criticism of CNN for falling short of some sort of journalistic standard that news providers should maintain. That activity no longer makes sense.

Discussion: @aseitzwald, @dankennedy_nu, Mediaite and @jayrosen_nyu

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

More job losses at the Indy as 27 compulsory redundancies announced ahead of autumn relaunch — The Independent newspapers are to make 27 editorial staff redundant in the latest wave of job losses at the group. — The voluntary redundancies will cut across the Independent …

Discussion: Guardian

Riva Gold / The Atlantic Online:

Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis — New numbers from the American Society of News Editors show that the progress of women and minorities in media has halted. — The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) recently released its annual study of newsroom diversity.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

What's next for Dish? It's got a lot of options centered around broadband — Dish Network's plans to buyout Sprint and invest in Clearwire have been dashed. Both those companies are only days away from becoming part of SoftBank's pan-Pacific empire. But that doesn't mean Dish and its wily chairman Charlie Ergen have been cowed.

Discussion: Businessweek, @robpegoraro and Associated Press

Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:

How the media outrageously blew the IRS scandal: A full accounting — Almost everything “reported” about the big Obama scandal was wrong, and no one has been held to account (UPDATED) — The first few days of the IRS scandal that would consume Washington for weeks went like this …

Discussion: msnbc.com and @daveweigel

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Daily Star Sunday journalist to be charged in Operation Elveden inquiry — Tom Savage is first non-News UK journalist to be charged under investigation into alleged corrupt payments to officials — Three journalists, including the Daily Star Sunday's deputy news editor …