Mediagazer: It takes a ‘war room’ to launch Netflix's series (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)

8:40 AM ET, July 25, 2013

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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 …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, Light Reading, ZDNet, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Laughing Squid, @digiphile, @mat, @tcarmody, @edbott, @jyarbrough, @tcarmody, @joshsternberg, @pwthornton and @jayrosen_nyu

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

James Surowiecki / New Yorker:

It's not over for Barnes & Noble. — When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning, there was one obvious conclusion: the company was doomed. After all, the Nook was how B.

Discussion: bookforum.com

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Closing Arguments Due in Manning Leaks Case — FORT MEADE, Md. — The court-martial trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose leaks of vast archives of secret government documents to WikiLeaks lifted a veil on American military and diplomatic activities, will begin to draw to a close on Thursday …

Discussion: Al Jazeera English and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Financial Times:

Newly rebranded International NYT focuses on digital — Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the publisher of the International Herald Tribune, holds up a slide from a New York Times Company presentation that shows two photographs of crowds gathered in St Peter's Square for the announcements of a new pope in 2005 and again in 2013.

San Francisco Chronicle:

KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names — KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, richliebermanreport …, New York Magazine and LA Observed

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online ad surge helps offset publisher's print slide — Daily Mail & General Trust says growth in digital revenues is close to outstripping rate of decline in newspaper advertising — The Daily Mail's publisher's digital newspaper revenues, from sites including Mail Online …

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Nick Denton Makes Peace With the Banner Ad — Excerpts: — What's your take on native ads: good, bad, or don't care? — Native ads are like any other ad: good when they're good, bad when they're bad, and usually indifferent. — Are social ads or native ads the future?

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

The Independent's journalists warn Lebedev cuts will be ‘tipping point’ — Staff tell owner plans for 27 job losses ‘threaten to tear the heart out of the writing staff’ as they ballot for industrial action — Journalists at the Independent have warned owner Evgeny Lebedev that the latest cuts …

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Penguin promises EU regulator to scrap Apple ebook deals — (Reuters) - EU regulators accepted on Thursday a pledge by British media group Pearson's Penguin unit to scrap its ebook deals with Apple which set price curbs on Amazon and other retailers, closing an antitrust case against the company.

Discussion: EU Press Room and Engadget

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

It takes a ‘war room’ to launch Netflix's series — LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Netflix's Internet video subscription service works around the clock, but it's unusual for more than two dozen of the company's engineers and top managers to be huddled in a conference room at 10:30 on a midsummer Wednesday evening.

Discussion: GigaOM

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

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, @eggerton and Deadline.com

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Journalist launches PicFair as marketplace to license images — The new platform is intended as a middle man between photographers and licence purchasers — Photographers await a shot of the royal baby, in this picture licensed through PicFair — PicFair, a platform giving anyone …

Discussion: The Next Web

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 …

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Hoopla wants to be a free Netflix for library users — Hoopla wants to make borrowing material from a library as convenient as streaming content on the web. The company, launching to the public today after several months in beta, offers patrons of participating libraries access …

Discussion: Radio & Television …