Mediagazer: The Wire's David Simon: Koch Brothers Buying Newspapers ‘Last Nail In The Coffin’ For Print Journalism (Matt Wilstein/Mediaite)

3:28 AM ET, July 26, 2013

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Trustworthy Journalism in a Fact-checking-free World — Getting real about trustworthy journalism — Okay, I really just want news I can trust. — Couple years ago, I blurted out that “the press should be the immune system of democracy.” — Personally, I really don't like being lied to …

Discussion: @mathewi, @ariannahuff and @buzenberg

Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:

Even Crazy Bloggers Deserve Safety From Subpoenas — The government has ways to make you talk, as writer James Risen was reminded when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered him last week to testify against the Central Intelligence Agency source who told him about covert operations regarding Iran's nuclear facilities.

Discussion: Freedom of the Press …, Blog Law Online and @ellnmllr

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Bradley Manning trial judge increased press security “because of repeat violations of the rules of court” — Col. Denise Lind, the Judge in the Bradley Manning military trial. Pic by Clark Stoeckley (twitter: @wikileakstruck). — Huffington Post reporter Matt Sledge read …

Discussion: @charlie_savage, The Huffington Post, @mgsledge, @charlie_savage, @nathanlfuller, @carwinb, @freedomofpress, @kgosztola and @kgosztola

Gloria Goodale / Christian Science Monitor: How Bradley Manning's ‘aiding the enemy’ charge could jolt journalism

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Journalists at Bradley Manning trial report hostile conditions for press

Discussion: Associated Press, @mgsledge, @ikepigott, TechCrunch, dissenter.firedoglake.com, @trevortimm, @jeffjarvis and Reuters

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Laurene Powell Jobs backs ambitious media site — Ozy Media will create content for the so-called change generation. — FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs, the intensely private widow of Steve Jobs, has teamed up with other Silicon Valley luminaries to back an ambitious new journalism site dubbed Ozy Media.

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Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’ — Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …

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Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:
The One True Streaming TV Device

Discussion: Mediashift, Wired, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Gawker is letting readers rewrite headlines and reframe articles — Relegating online comments to the bottom of an article seems so old-school newspapery in retrospect, doesn't it? — Long the default for many news organizations online, the message is that reader comments are an afterthought …

Discussion: @kinja, @matthewwells, @nicknotned, FishbowlNY, @aaretz, @vbelairgagnon, @joemfbrown, @scrippsnews, @nicknotned, @johnjcook and @rbfishman

Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

The Wire's David Simon: Koch Brothers Buying Newspapers ‘Last Nail In The Coffin’ For Print Journalism — David Simon, who worked as a police reporter at The Baltimore Sun for more than a decade before creating HBO's The Wire, has officially joined the fight against the Koch brothers' proposed takeover …

Discussion: AdAge and Politico

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Post’ editor Col Allan being sent to Australia to guide News Corp. papers there — New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan is leaving the paper—temporarily at least. — The tabloid's top man is being shipped off to his native Australia to provide “extra editorial leadership” …

Discussion: TheAustralian, @aus_media, @rob_stott, @tmcgev, @bobbymacreports, @sally_jackson, @davidfolkenflik, @rupertmurdochpr, @davidfolkenflik, @kbsmoke and mUmBRELLA

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Amazon fails to make a profit in Q2, but at least sales are good — Amazon just released some disappointing numbers for its 2013 second-quarter earnings. But there is one bright side — sales are looking good. — The company reported revenue of $15.7 billion with a loss of 2 cents per share.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Digits, Forbes, CNET, AllThingsD, Slate, Globe and Mail and The Wrap

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Glenn Britt to Retire as Time Warner Cable Chief — When Glenn Britt got started in the nascent cable television business in the 1970s, no one knew whether people would pay a monthly fee for something that was already available for free through an antenna. “I thought that it was either …

Discussion: Variety, GigaOM, Business Insider and @brianstelter

World News Publishing Focus:

Publishers pressured to promise ad viewability after study finds half of ads do not appear — Following a comScore study that found more than half of display ads go unseen, advertisers are demanding promises of viewability that publishers have explicitly been told not to provide.

Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear? — On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University student who, for about four hours on the morning of April 19, was mistakenly identified …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Gawker, Yahoo! News, The Verge, The Atlantic Wire and Politico

William Alden / DealBook:

Activision in $8.2 Billion Deal to Buy Back Stake From Vivendi — Activision Blizzard, the world's biggest video game publisher, has a reached an $8.2 billion deal to separate from Vivendi and become an independent company. — Under a deal that was announced early Friday …

Discussion: Reuters and Bloomberg

Ted Johnson / Variety:

House Lawmaker Mounts New Push for Radio Performance Right — Rep. Mel Watt to introduce legislation to make stations compensate artists — Musicians and broadcasters are poised to engage in a new round of a decades-long lobbying battle over whether artists should be paid when their songs are played on broadcast radio stations.

Discussion: Radio & Television …

Nielsen:

Global Ad Spend: Display Ads See Double-Digit Growth in Q1 — According to Nielsen's quarterly Global AdView Pulse report, the first quarter of 2013 held few surprises for media sectors—continuing trends established in recent years. Television remained the dominant media type in terms …