Mediagazer: Labels Force Playlist.com Shift To Online Radio (Bruce Houghton/hypebot)

4:45 AM ET, July 12, 2013

Top News:

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden's Laptops? — It's the story that just won't quit: The tale of Edward J. Snowden and his leak of classified information about the United States government's secret surveillance of citizens. — Rife with skirmishes and subplots …

Discussion: @balthazarbierma, @michelelassauxh, @jamesrbuk, @jackshafer, @ggreenwald, The Week, FP Passport, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pew: About a quarter of Americans say journalists contribute little to society — 27 percent of Americans say journalists contribute little or nothing to society's well being, according to a study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Discussion: Pew Forum on Religion …, @jackshafer, NationalJournal.com, The Wrap and TVSpy

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Holder to deliver report to Obama on press probe guidelines — Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to deliver a report to President Barack Obama Friday on proposed changes to Justice Department guidelines on criminal investigations that involve the news media.

Joe Pompeo / New York Magazine:

Al Jazeera America: A Unicorn is Born — Where the magic will happen: Al Jazeera America's newsroom. — The modern realities of the media business have so accustomed us to seeing journalistic entities disbanded, either abruptly or in slow motion, that there's an undeniable fascination …

Discussion: @jshormannl, @jamespoulos and Los Angeles Times

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Andrew Goldman is leaving ‘Talk’ post at ‘New York Times Magazine’ — The New York Times Magazine is getting a new columnist for its weekly Q & A feature. — Andrew Goldman, the writer on Its most recent incarnation, “Talk,” bid farewell to fans on Twitter today and said that his column …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Bruce Houghton / hypebot:

Labels Force Playlist.com Shift To Online Radio — Playlist.com has switched from user generated playlists to to an online radio model as of July 1st. The move was forced by the labels, according to the company. It's not the first major setback for the Playlist team …

Discussion: TorrentFreak

Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

Battle Over the FCC's Future Kickstarted Again in Congress — Greg Walden rips the FCC for taking too long to review communications deals and for overreaching in demanding concessions such as in the Comcast-NBCU merger — The battle over the Federal Communications Communication's future returned …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Broadcasting & Cable

David Kravets / Wired:

RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy — Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform? — The RIAA is suggesting Jammie Thomas-Rasset do just that.

Discussion: TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Softpedia News and The Verge

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Upworthy's biggest threat: Becoming a one-note wonder — Upworthy is one of the hottest media stories around. In May, it registered 30 million unique visitors, an incredibly high number for a 13-month-old company, placing it above Hulu.com, NBC Sports, and Us Magazine on the pageview totem pole.

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Who is a journalist? Manning trial poses question of vital public interest — In this age of radically open networks, journalism is no longer a profession. It is a service to inform society anyone can provide — When Bradley Manning's defense attorneys wanted someone to explain journalism …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and Boing Boing

Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:

Layhmond Robinson Jr., 88, Dies; Paved the Way for Black Journalists — Layhmond Robinson Jr., one of the first black reporters at The New York Times, who later became a local television news correspondent, died on June 29 in Queens. He was 88. — The cause was complications of pneumonia, his daughter Deborah Robinson said.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Publishers Try a Different Kind of Pay Wall, Unlocked by Watching Web Video — Publishers including Maxim, Radar Online, Guitar World and USA Today Sports Media are experimenting with a pay wall that instead of charging readers requires them to watch an advertiser's video.

Discussion: @themediaisdying