Mediagazer: Propaganda? No. Bringing ‘Voice of America’ To America Is Good for Transparency (Josh Stearns/Mediashift)

8:55 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.

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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 …

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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

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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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.

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RT:

Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will have to stay at a Moscow airport for a little longer as his asylum plea is still being reviewed by Russian Immigration Authorities, according to his lawyer.

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 …

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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.

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Fox Loses Appeal Asking for Injunction Against Dish's ‘Hopper’ Ad-Skipper — An appeals court refuses to overturn a judge's decision over a technology that broadcasters argue will irreparably harm the television industry. — On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Fox's appeal …

Discussion: New York Times, AllThingsD, CNET, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Wrap, Public Knowledge, Techdirt, Advanced Television and The Verge

Peter Sterne / The New York Observer:

Military News Explodes Online — In what may be the season's unsexiest journalism trend, mainstream media companies are launching military-related news sites, on the theory that defense-related digital ad spending will grow as the industry's print stalwarts fade.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

With Plans For The First ‘Programmatic Upfront’ Event, AOL Pushes For More Automated Ad Buying — Aol CEO Tim Armstrong has been evangelizing for programmatic advertising, where ads are purchased in an automated, data-driven way, usually through real-time bidding.

Discussion: AllThingsD and AOL Blog