Mediagazer: Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer. (Gary Shteyngart/New Yorker)

6:50 AM ET, July 31, 2013

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests — What is Google Glass good for, beyond showing off at technology conferences? Google's augmented eyewear has plenty of sceptics, but here's one scenario: — “When there's a wall of police firing plastic bullets at you …

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Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:

Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer. — Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer.

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Facebook Said to Plan to Sell TV-Style Ads for $2.5M Each — Facebook Inc. (FB), seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 million a day, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

The Bradley Manning verdict is still bad news for the press — The Obama administration's war on leaks and, by extension, the work of investigative reporters, has been unrelenting — The American journalism trade is breathing a collective - but premature and, in many cases, grossly hypocritical - sigh of relief today.

Kim Zetter / Wired:
Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty on Lesser Charges

Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

McClatchy asks Obama administration if U.S. helped New Zealand collect data on journalist — WASHINGTON — The McClatchy Co. asked the Obama administration on Tuesday to explain news reports in New Zealand that U.S. intelligence agencies had helped that country's military track cellular telephone calls …

Discussion: InvestigateDaily, Associated Press, Associated Press, Sydney Morning Herald, @jonathanlanday, HeraldSun and Committee to Protect …

Chris Trotter / The Daily Blog:

Lone Wolf: Jon Stephenson and his Search for the Truth — A person who continues to believe that one's honour is worth defending; one's reputation is worth preserving; and that the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is still worth risking everything to find.

Discussion: @feyhag, @jmnicholls and @maxdcoyle

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Before Fusion's TV Debut, A Secret News Site Posts Stories — Univision-ABC backed news outlet aims to lure Hispanic viewers during a competitive time for TV news — A tiny Miami newsroom has been mixing it up online, winning some digital notice for its reporting on the topic …

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Should Publishers Fear Publicis Omnicom? — This past weekend's merger between Publicis and Omnicom is already creating ripples across the media industry. — Many publishers privately worry that consolidating two of the three largest advertising companies will have ongoing and lasting repercussions for their businesses.

Discussion: @rickjwaghorn, @thebaltogroup and @joshsternberg

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate panel approves Wheeler to lead FCC — The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Tuesday advanced Tom Wheeler's nomination to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Senate floor. — The panel approved his nomination by a voice vote, although there were scattered “no” votes from Republicans.

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Don Clark / Digits:

Why Intel and TiVo Are Cautious on New TV Interaction — When Intel's Erik Huggers first publicly discussed plans for a new Internet TV service and associated set-top box in February, one striking feature was a front-facing camera to help recognize users' faces. But it's not in current prototypes.

Discussion: Softpedia News, Variety, SlashGear and GigaOM

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Greenwald: NSA hearing cancelled — This week's informal congressional hearing on the National Security Agency's surveillance program has been cancelled, according to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who was expected to testify via satellite. — Democratic congressman Alan Grayson …

Discussion: Mediaite, @dylanbyers and The Daily Caller

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Penske could be in the race for Newsweek — Jay Penske is kicking the tires and checking under the hood as a potential suitor to buy Newsweek from Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp., sources said. — Penske — of the auto-racing family — already owns HollywoodLife and Deadline Hollywood …

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

CBS Experiments With Streaming Deals — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Monday the broadcaster is experimenting with new business models for serialized dramas like apocalyptic summer hit “Under the Dome” and the coming thriller “Hostages,” banking on deals with streaming-video sites …

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