Mediagazer: The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley (Susan Berfield/Businessweek)

8:40 AM ET, July 26, 2013

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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 …

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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

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Pearson puts FT Group's Mergermarket up for sale — • Company is exploring possibility of selling off financial intelligence business — • Chief executive John Fallon insists Financial Times remains valued part of business and is not for sale — • FT Group reports flat revenues of £217m in first half of year

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Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:
Pearson Posts Loss as Restructuring Continues

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Craig Newmark / The Huffington Post:

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 …

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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Even Crazy Bloggers Deserve Safety From Subpoenas

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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

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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Journalists and their funders: Whose job is it to measure impact, and how should it be done? — Chuck Lewis didn't mean to become the Yoda of nonprofit journalism — it just sort of happened that way. He was a reporter for decades before founding his first nonprofit, the Center for Public Integrity …

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

New approaches to online video at the Wall Street Journal — Lessons in first-person interactive video from the WSJ — Copyright: Image by openDemocracy on Flickr. Some rights reserved — The Wall Street Journal earlier this month published a four-minute interactive video to explain changes …

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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 …

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Agence France Presse:

Franco-US photographer held in Syria released — A Franco-American photographer who had been detained in Syria since April has been freed and arrived safely in Paris this week, the French foreign ministry said. — Jonathan Alpeyrie, who works for the New York-based Polaris Images photo agency …

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” …

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Dave Lee / BBC:

Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM — Huawei has had considerable operations in the UK for almost a decade — The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron is controlled by the controversial Chinese company Huawei, the BBC has learned.

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Herald Sun:

Photog charged over topless photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge holidaying in France — A photographer suspected of having taken topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William published last September in French magazine “Closer” was charged in June, sources close to the case told AFP.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB annual results: Now TV ‘day pass’ sales hit 50,000 — Sky's total customer base reaches 10.4m as results for year to end of June see pre-tax profits rise 5.7% to £1.26bn — • Sky announces Now TV box for £9.99, allowing non-Sky subscribers to connect TV to internet.

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Susan Berfield / Businessweek:

The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley — As the chief executive of Barnes & Noble (BKS) from 2010 to 2013, William Lynch might have had one of the most difficult jobs in the retail business. He made it harder still by running a large chain of bookstores as though it were a tech startup.

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