Mediagazer: The de-newspaperization of America (Will Bunch/Philly.com)

9:00 AM ET, August 1, 2013

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Will Bunch / Philly.com:

The de-newspaperization of America — It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper. Now you have a few newspapers that make a profit because they are national brands …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

CBS President On ‘Illegal’ Aereo: 'We Don't Think It's Catching On At All' — Considering how hard his company has been trying to obtain a legal death warrant for Aereo, CBS president Les Moonves affected a suspiciously nonchalant air when talking about the streaming TV service on Wednesday's earnings call.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Comcast and CBS Post Strong Results, Aided by Web — Judging by the second-quarter earnings reported by two major media companies on Wednesday, the good times are still rolling in the television business. — Comcast reported that its earnings rose to $1.7 billion from $1.35 billion …

Reuters:
CBS Earnings Beat Expectations, Sumner Redstone Endorses Les Moonves

Discussion: Radio & Television …, CBS Corporation, AdAge, Los Angeles Times, @jboorstin, @dana_mcclintock, @megjameslat, @dana_mcclintock, @jlafayette, @jboorstin, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.com

David Batty / Guardian:

Twitter bomb threats to female journalists — Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman and Independent writer Grace Dent among women threatened — Police are investigating bomb threats made on Twitter against several female journalists, including Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman.

Reuters:

New York Times Co reports slip in total revenue — New York Times Co reported on Thursday that revenue slipped almost 1 percent to $485.4 million, as gains in subscriptions to its flagship and other newspapers could not offset declines in advertising. — Total operating profit …

The New York Times Company:

The New York Times Company Reports 2013 Second-Quarter Results — The New York Times Company NYT +2.53% announced today second-quarter 2013 diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $.13 compared with $.25 in the same period of 2012. Excluding severance and the 2012 special …

Discussion: New York Times, StreetInsider.com and @edmundlee

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Google is testing a local news product for Google Now — Google has hatched a plan to boost the visibility of its existing local news product, and in the process is testing a whole new way to get people to pay attention to the news that is geographically most relevant to them.

Discussion: Street Fight, Fast Company, @bbccollege, TechnoBuffalo, GigaOM, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, Engadget, Pocket-lint, @jason, TechCrunch, @tscurrie, @laureni, @digiphile, @vincos, @mathewi and @niemanlab

RT:

Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is allowed to enter the country's territory. — The whistleblower has been granted temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly Kucherena said.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @rt_com, Softpedia News, @rt_com, The Atlantic Wire, Times of India, Politico, Reuters, Reuters, bigstory.ap.org, @hari, @avilarenata, @samsteinhp, @rt_com, World News and Business Insider

Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg:

If Politics Is So Easy, Why Can't Journalists Do It? — Chrystia Freeland, a columnist and senior editor at Thomson Reuters, said last week that she's quitting her job to run for political office in Canada, where she was born. Freeland is an accomplished journalist and the author of a book …

Discussion: @edmundlee, @scroll, @scottbix, @bloombergview and @adwooldridge

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Despite Controversy, Rolling Stone ‘Boston Bomber’ Issue Is a Hit on Newsstands — Rolling Stone's “Boston Bomber” issue got a rash of bad publicity and retailers like CVS and Stop & Stop pulled it from shelves after a “Boycott Rolling Stone” campaign gained steam on Facebook.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Big Lead, Softpedia News, Gawker, New York Magazine and FTVLive

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Fox News Sues TVEyes for Copyright Infringement — Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation — Fox News Channel sued TVEyes, a $500-per-month TV and radio broadcast search service, for copyright infringement on Tuesday.

Discussion: Courthouse News Service, @mattcover and @buzzfeedandrew

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Did the media drop the ball on the Bradley Manning trial? — “The corporate media coverage of this trial, which is arguably one of the most important cases in modern American history, has been utterly shameful,” Nation reporter Jeremy Scahill said on “Democracy Now!”

Discussion: @sulliview, @piratenpartij, @abeaujon, Foreign Policy, @niemanlab, Variety and Committee to Protect …

David Carr / New York Times:
Whistle-Blowers in Limbo, Neither Hero Nor Traitor

Discussion: Guardian, CNN and AAP

Ryan Singel / Wired:

Now That It's in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality — In a dramatic about-face on a key internet issue yesterday, Google told the FCC that the network neutrality rules Google once championed don't give citizens the right to run servers on their home broadband connections …

Discussion: GigaOM, BGR, The Huffington Post, Free Press, Forbes, Electronista, @ericmann, DSLreports, @benedictevans, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, @benwoz, @clmazin, @shipilev, Boing Boing, The Verge and Mashable

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ — • XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data — • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches — • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

Brian Fung / The Switch:
Senators lash out at NSA for excessive secrecy

Discussion: Mashable, Hit & Run and BBC

Reuters:

Music streamer Spotify doubles 2012 revenues after expansion — * Revenues hit 435 mln euros vs 190 mln in 2011 — * Expanding to Latin America, Asia this year — Music streaming web service Spotify more than doubled revenues in 2012 to 435 million euros ($577 million) …

Discussion: Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch