Mediagazer: Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

11:00 PM ET, July 24, 2013

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV — Google just announced Chromecast, a TV dongle that lets you stream online videos straight from your phone, tablet or laptop to your TV. Chromecast is based on a stripped-down version of Chrome OS, and interoperable with a multitude of devices.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Google's TV — Google just demoted your television set into a second screen, a slave to your phone or tablet or laptop. With the $35 Chromecast you can with one click move anything you find on your internet-connected device — YouTube video, Netflix, a web page as well as music and pictures and soon …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, @edbott, @jayrosen_nyu, @tcarmody, @joshsternberg, @jyarbrough, @mat, Laughing Squid, @tcarmody, @digiphile, @pwthornton and Daring Fireball

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Streams Full HD to New Google Tablet, But Still No High-Def on Apple Devices

Discussion: CNET, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat

Abraham Moussako / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A: James O'Shea — The former Tribune newsman discusses where the company has been, and where it's going — James O'Shea, former editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, was close to the center of the successive storms at the Tribune company, from its ill-fated 2000 merger …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Cision

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Jacob Soboroff leaves HuffPost Live; third host to depart in two months — HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post's ambitious online video network run by the site's founding editor, Roy Sekoff, has lost its third host in two months. — Jacob Soboroff, who's been with the online video network since …

Josh Stearns / Mediashift:

Propaganda? No. Bringing ‘Voice of America’ To America Is Good for Transparency — Fewer than half of Middle East residents think it's safe to express political opinions online, according to a study by sponsor Northwestern University in Qatar. Explore the data on this interactive site …

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Penton Buys Aviation Week from McGraw Hill — The privately-conducted deal is the third for Penton since 2010. — McGraw Hill has sold Aviation Week to Penton in an all-cash deal. The transaction is part of McGraw Hill Financial's ongoing effort to divest “non-core” assets and position itself as a financial intelligence company.

Discussion: Skift

Katy Burne / Wall Street Journal:

New York Probes Bloomberg Reporters' Access to Information — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is looking into how much access Bloomberg LP news reporters may have had to information about the media and technology company's customers, said people familiar with the inquiries.

Discussion: TVNewser and Capital New York

Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:

Punishing Journalists, Subverting Press Freedom — When Yavuz Baydar, the Turkish journalist, offered us his Op-Ed on what he called the “shameful role of Turkey's media conglomerates in subverting press freedom,” Mr. Baydar knew he was putting his job at risk. He was right.

Discussion: @zeynep, Today's Zaman, Today's Zaman, @yavuzbaydar, Talking New Media and Kirk LaPointe's …

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Mediaspectrum Raises $35.8M From Insight Venture Partners To Support Big Media Publishers — Boston-based Mediaspectrum, a company that has a subscription software service catering to big media publishers like Gannett, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Post and more …

Discussion: Mediaspectrum and CMSWire.com

Ronald Grover / Reuters:

Exclusive: Time Warner Cable, Hulu break off talks: sources — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hulu's owners called off talks with Time Warner Cable Inc over the cable operator's plan to take a 25 percent stake in the video streaming site, after failing to agree on a price, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.

Discussion: The Verge and @lianabaker

Ted Johnson / Variety:

Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Ask FCC to Restrict Gannett's Deal for Belo — The American Cable Assn., Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are objecting to a part of Gannett's proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.'s broadcast stations, saying that the deal threatens to drive up retransmission fees …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com and @eggerton