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Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File — Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. — I am the plaintiff in this lawsuit.
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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
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 …
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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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Max Read / Gawker:
Incredible Photos Capture Last Moments of Boston Bombing Manhunt — In response to the Rolling Stone cover featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Instagram selfie, Boston magazine has published a number incredible of photos from behind the scenes of the manhunt that captured the accused Boston bomber …
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Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch admits error in criticism of police investigations — Media mogul writes to MP Keith Vaz to retract ‘incompetence’ remark but says inquiries have taken too long — Read the full text of Murdoch's letter to Vaz — Rupert Murdoch has admitted he was wrong to describe phone-hacking …
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Vivendi Declined SoftBank's Lucrative Offer for Universal — Vivendi, the French media and telecommunications conglomerate, rejected an $8.5 billion cash bid from SoftBank for the Universal Music Group, even though it represented a premium of at least $2 billion more than some analysts' estimates …
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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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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
New York Post Looks Thinner After News Corporation Split
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
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
Netflix's “House of Cards” gets first major Emmy nominations for online-only show
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Netflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers
Netflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Former Fox Exec Mike Darnell Moving to Warner Bros. TV — New position will put him in charge of unscripted programming for the production company behind “American Idol” rival “The Voice” — It looks like Mike Darnell has found a new gig. — Darnell, who until the end of June had served …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How Watching ‘Unbundled’ ESPN and AMC Could Cost More Than Your Whole Cable Bill — One last word (for now) on sports and the cable bundle — ESPN would cost as much as $30 a month if you yanked it out of the cable bundle and made it a standalone service, according to new analysis from Needham Insights.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
What Will It Take To Make Cheap Over-The-Top TV Viable? — In theory, there are any number of reasons why a person might eschew a cable or satellite subscription and choose to get his television over a broadband connection, ie. over the top. Maybe he has a demanding job that makes it impossible to wait around for the cable guy.
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Hollywood Reporter:
'Anchorman's' David Koechner Makes Instagram Movie — The actor created a buddy-cop comedy consisting of eight 15-second segments. — Actors David Koechner and Harland Williams have used Instagram's new video tool to create a buddy-cop movie consisting of eight 15-second segments.
LaGrange News:
Civitas Media to Close Suburban Newspapers in Ohio and North Carolina — DAVIDSON, N.C. - July 17 -, 2013 - Civitas Media, parent company to the LaGrange Daily News, a multi-platform information provider to local communities, announced today that it is closing eight suburban weekly newspapers in the Dayton, Ohio and Raleigh, NC areas.
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Justice's Rules Mean Reporter Need Not Testify, Lawyer Says — A lawyer for New York Times reporter James Risen is citing new Justice Department guidelines about when to subpoena journalists to support his argument that Risen is covered by a common-law reporter's privilege and need not testify …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable take distribution feud public — A CBS ad warns some Time Warner Cable subscribers that they may lose access to the network. (CBS) — CBS and Time Warner Cable are taking their business battle public, with each launching ad campaigns critical of the other.
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John Cook / Gawker:
Here's Where Your Crackstarter Money Is Going — As you may recall, roughly six weeks ago we succeeded in raising $200,000 from readers in an effort to purchase and publish a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. I'm disappointed to announce definitively that the money …
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Aereo's Kanojia: On Track for 22 Markets by Fall — In C-SPAN interview, calls service criticism ‘irrational saber rattling from people not interested in innovation’ — Fresh off its latest court victory, which its founder says validates the service, Aereo is on track to be in 22 markets by fall.
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