Mediagazer: [UPDATED] Sun-Times lays off 14 production staffers (Jim Romenesko)

2:55 PM ET, July 18, 2013

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Let Tech Blogs Celebrate Start-Ups — Sarah Lacy, in her TechCrunch days, interviewing Keith Rabois, formerly of Square. — Sarah Lacy is having a rough month. The founder of tech blog PandoDaily and perennial Valleywag target first ignited criticism with inflammatory comments …

Erin Banco / New York Times:

Judge in Manning Case Allows Charge of Aiding the Enemy — The military judge in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning decided on Thursday not to drop a charge accusing Private Manning of “aiding the enemy.” If he is found guilty of the charge, he faces a life sentence in military custody with no chance of parole.

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Ben Wizner / Freedom of the Press Foundation:

How Today's Ruling in the Bradley Manning Case Could Adversely Affect Journalists and Whistleblowers — A version of this post originally appeared on the ACLU Free Future blog in 2012. It has been updated and cross-posted with permission from the author. Today, the military judge overseeing …

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Emily Bazelon / Slate: Bradley Manning trial and WikiLeaks: The government's charge that he aided the enemy is wrong and dangerous.

Dorothy Pomerantz / Forbes:

Don't Get Too Excited About Those Netflix Emmy Nominations — The fact that Netflix scored 14 nods at this morning's Emmy Awards nominations is the story of the day. Until recently, Netflix was a tech company distributing content that other companies made. Now, suddenly, it's a player in creating that content.

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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Netflix's “House of Cards” gets first major Emmy nominations for online-only show

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Netflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Condé Nast Touts Biggest September in Five Years — Fashion bible Vogue seems to be the winner in the September ad page race so far. — The Condé Nast book weighed in last year at 658 ad pages; this year, publisher Susan Plagemann added 1 percentage point for a total of 665 total ad pages.

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Erik Maza / WWD: Ad Sales Tick Up for September Issues

David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:

New York Post Looks Thinner After News Corporation Split — It's been a while since Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid has had a jaw-dropping scoop—or a front page that went viral. And some laid-off staffers aren't being replaced. David Freedlander on why staffers are worried.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘New York Post’ gears up for early August web relaunch — Late last month, Robert Thomson, C.E.O. of the new publishing-focused iteration of News Corp., told The Financial Times that the New York Post was working on a plan to compete nationally with large, well-financed digital media brands like Buzzfeed.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders — When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine television …

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Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Sun-Times lays off 14 production staffers — The downsizing continues at the Chicago Sun-Times. — The paper confirmed today that 14 production employees were laid off last Wednesday. The paper released this statement after I asked about the cuts:

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

Media Diversity: Washington Post Expands Into Industrial Boilers … Washington Post Co. agreed to buy Forney Corp., a global supplier of products and systems for power and industrial boilers, from United Technologies Corp. (UTX), as the education and media company continues …

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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:

Warren Buffett's newspaper company to buy Atlantic City paper — Warren Buffett's newspaper company said Thursday it plans to acquire the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., for an undisclosed price. The Press is owned by Abarta, a private holding company in Pittsburgh that is owned by the Bitzer and Taylor families.

Discussion: Poynter and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:

'Community's' Dan Harmon Reveals the Wild Story Behind His Firing and Rehiring — TV's most controversial showrunner (and self-professed “rude a**hole") renews his feud with Chevy Chase, recalls his attacks on NBC and Sony, reveals his regrets over the rape joke and details how Joel McHale helped him get his old job back.

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Sean Michaels / Guardian:

Liam Gallagher sues New York Post over ‘love child’ claims — Beady Eye singer's spokesman confirms he will be ‘pursuing legal action’ over story about a child with a US journalist — Liam Gallagher is suing the New York Post over their allegation that he may have fathered a child with an American journalist.

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Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Swell raises $5.4M to ‘reinvent news radio’ around your preferences — Swell wants to expand your mind. — Today the startup “reinventing news radio” closed a $5.4 million round of funding, led by elite firm Draper Fisher Jurveston. Swell provides a Pandora-like service for listening to podcasts.

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Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Independent management warns journalists print edition in question beyond 2015 unless cuts made — Senior management at The Independent have told staff that they could struggle to produce a print edition beyond 2015 unless proposed cuts are made. — At a meeting held yesterday to discuss …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: six journalists in court over payments — Four Sun staff and Daily Star Sunday deputy editor among those accused of paying public officials for information — Six newspaper staff including four Sun journalists staff have appeared in court accused of paying public officials …

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Ian Crouch / News Desk:

The Inconvenient Image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — The magazine cover retains its unique cultural power—to amuse, to inform, to agitate, or, as is the case with the forthcoming August 1st issue of Rolling Stone, to enrage. That cover, unveiled on Tuesday night, features a photographic self-portrait …

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency — Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed

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Feminista Jones / Salon:

Is Twitter the underground railroad of activism? — The Zimmerman trial may have introduced white America to “Black Twitter,” but its roots go back centuries — “It's just Twitter” is a refrain often tweeted by people who insist that they don't take much of what they read on Twitter seriously.

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