Mediagazer: Franco-US photographer held in Syria released (Agence France Presse)

7:50 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 …

Discussion: @charlie_savage, The Huffington Post, @charlie_savage, @freedomofpress, @carwinb, @mgsledge, @nathanlfuller, @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, Freedom of the Press …, @trevortimm, @mgsledge, TechCrunch, dissenter.firedoglake.com, @ikepigott, @jeffjarvis, Reuters and New York Times

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

Discussion: Press Gazette, themediabriefing.com, Reuters, Bloomberg and NASDAQ.com

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 …

Discussion: Mediashift, @buzenberg, @mathewi and @ariannahuff

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

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

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.

Discussion: @jessicalessin, @mattrosoff, @bill_mcintosh, @lilmssociable, @awallenstein, @mathewi and @dangillmor

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 and VentureBeat

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

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” …

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

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.

Discussion: Groupthink, Techdirt, Quartz, Business Insider and Beijing Cream

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 …

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

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

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.