Mediagazer: Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

9:45 AM ET, July 24, 2013

Top News:

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

The rise of the personal franchise site in news — “This is in many ways how major media has domesticated blogging.” — Yesterday the buzz in newsland was all about Nate Silver's decision to move his FiveThirtyEight.com franchise from the New York Times to ESPN. A subplot was provided by public editor Margaret Sullivan.

Discussion: HubSpot's Inbound …, Kirk LaPointe's …, HubSpot's Inbound …, @om, The First Bound, @boraz, The Corsair, FishbowlNY, SPLICETODAY.com, Forbes and TVNewser

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

Nate Silver's genius isn't math. It's journalism. — The news that Nate Silver is leaving the New York Times for a role at ESPN and ABC News (corporate synergies! They're a thing!) has occasioned some interesting posts on what he got right during the election. — Nate Silver (Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press)

Discussion: Slate

RT:

Snowden granted entry to Russia, free to leave airport - source — Russia's Immigration Service has reportedly granted entry permission to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been stranded at a Moscow airport since last month. — Snowden, who had been living in the transit zone …

Discussion: Reuters, Mediaite, Gawker, The Independent, International Business Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Wire, Softpedia News, Business Insider, NDTV News, @jonronson, NPR and New York Magazine

Mohammed Ghobari / Reuters:

Yemen journalist pardoned after three years in prison — (Reuters) - A Yemeni journalist and expert on al Qaeda has been released after serving three years of a five-year sentence for aiding the Islamist militant network in Yemen, the president's office said on Wednesday.

Discussion: Associated Press, Big News Network.com, @jeremyscahill, dissenter.firedoglake.com, RT and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Like “Sharknado,” but Bigger: Facebook Has Five Times More TV Chatter Than Twitter — For the past couple of years, Twitter has been making a very big deal about TV and Twitter's value to the TV Industrial Complex: Promote your shows on our service, Dick Costolo and company tell the TV guys …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Trendrr Blog, Quartz and Variety

Justin Elliott / ProPublica:

NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails — The NSA is a “supercomputing powerhouse” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture.

Discussion: Slate, emptywheel, NPR, The Daily Caller and Boing Boing

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

‘Today,’ ‘NBC Nightly News’ Hit by Modest Layoffs — Less than 2 percent of staff cut — NBC News was hit by a round of layoffs on Tuesday, with “Today” and “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” losing a small number of staff, a network spokesperson told TheWrap.

Discussion: @brianstelter and TVNewser

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Guido Fawkes blogger threatens to sue Tory MP over hacking accusation — Paul Staines says he will send Tory MP Claire Perry a legal warning after she said he had ‘sponsored’ hacking of her website — Guido Fawkes blog founder Paul Staines is planning to send a legal warning …

Discussion: Guy Fawkes' blog and Softpedia News

Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:

Longform Journalism is Alive and Well, Say Co-Founders of Byliner, Atavist — Over the weekend, I found myself at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine, Texas. It was my first trip to the gathering, even as a native north Texan, but I must say it was an extremely valuable …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter — There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and hypebot

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law — Since last year the Finnish public has had the option of suggesting the kind of laws they want to be governed under. — A recent modification of the national Constitution allows citizens to make legislative proposals for Parliament to vote on …

Discussion: Motherboard, Fast Company, TeleRead, RT and Softpedia News

Erik Wemple:

New York Times's Brian Stelter to guest-host CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ — Brian Stelter, a New York Times reporter covering television and digital media, will guest-host an edition of CNN's Sunday program “Reliable Sources,” the media-watchdog show that longtime host Howard Kurtz recently left for a job with Fox News.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Gretawire, Mediaite, @gretawire, @brianstelter, Politico and TVNewser

Liz Shannon Miller / paidContent:

When it comes to digital content, are the Emmys broken? Or just painfully behind? — While the perception might be that Netflix has changed the game for awards recognition of digital content, Thursday's less-discussed nominations prove that the Emmys are still way behind the times.

Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:

Executive Editor Owen Phillips Exits The Hollywood Reporter — For the past three years, Owen Phillips (pictured) has worked tirelessly alongside Hollywood Reporter editorial director Janice Min to re-brand a moribund trade. After coming up for air this spring, Phillips decided it was time to move …

Discussion: Folio and Hollywood Reporter

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Is Flipboard a partner or a competitor for publishers and content creators? Yes — Flipboard has always had a somewhat double-edged relationship with the publishers who create the bulk of the content that flows through its apps: it theoretically gets those content creators a larger audience …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AllThingsD