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9:15 AM ET, July 15, 2013

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America  —  As the new US network is finally set to launch, serious concerns arise about its brand and intent: especially from within the organization  —  When Al Jazeera last December purchased Current TV in order to launch its own …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Sold Back to Its Founder, Frommer's to Publish Anew  —  When Google bought the Frommer's brand of travel guides last August, it was an unlikely union of old and new, of paper and pixels.  —  It didn't last long.  —  Arthur Frommer, the 83-year-old founder of the company …
Discussion: paidContent and bookforum.com
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Goodreads hit with copyright suit over fan photo  —  Goodreads is being sued after a member of the book-sharing social network posted a celebrity photo to the site.  —  A photo agency has filed a lawsuit against Goodreads, the Amazon-owned social network for book lovers, over a celebrity image posted by one of the site's members.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Associated Press extends live video capabilities with new LiveU deal  —  Some AP reporters will use LiveU hardware, such as backpack units, to broadcast live video via mobile networks rather than satellite link  —  Copyright: Image by jsawkins on Flickr.  Some rights reserved
Discussion: The Drum and Yahoo! News
John Tozzi / Businessweek:
A New Way for Musicians to Make Money on YouTube  —  In 2001, composer Scott Schreer wrote a roughly two-minute saxophone-heavy acid jazz instrumental called Love Doctor, and the song lives in an online catalogue of music that he licenses to film and TV producers.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Study finds elders pick web over newspaper, too  —  In fresh evidence of the mounting demographic challenge facing publishers, a new study from Oxford University found that online sites beat newspapers as the preferred news source for every age group - including those over 55 years of age.
Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:
Greece Resumes Official State TV Programming  —  ATHENS — Exactly a month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece closed the state television network ERT in a cost-cutting move that almost brought down his fragile coalition government, a bare-bones version of the service was back on the air on Thursday.
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
Murdoch ‘hurt’ by leak of secret recording of meeting with Sun journalists  —  Rupert Murdoch said he feels “hurt” by the leek of a secret recording of a meeting with Sun journalists.  —  The recording, which has become known as “the Murdoch tape” included a host of explosive revelations …
Discussion: Exaro
Roben Farzad / Businessweek:
How Investing in Print Could Pay Off  —  News Corp. Time Warner.  Now, Tribune.  They're all spinning off their declining print businesses.  —  Why would anyone buy these orphans?  Because they will offer pure plays on what promises to be more mergers and acquisitions in the industry.
Jan Schaffer / Mediashift:
Public Media Join Non-Profit Startups to Collaborate, Fill Local News Gap  —  In Denver, the statewide public television network had no newsroom until it merged with an investigative news site that built one from scratch.  In St. Louis, The Beacon has been working to add its 14 reporters …
Discussion: Street Fight
Abraham Moussako / Columbia Journalism Review:
Who will bear witness?  —  Photojournalists share their experiences of covering the Iraq War  —  Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy, former war correspondent for the Associated Press and founder of the microbrewery, looked back at the Iraq War and discussed the state …
Discussion: LA Observed
emptywheel:
In Bid to Placate Legacy Media, DOJ Moves Closer to Instituting Official Press  —  The First Amendment was written, in part, to eliminate the kind of official press that parrots only the King's sanctioned views.  But with its revised “News Media Policies,” DOJ gets us closer to having just that, an official press.
 
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