Mediagazer: Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport (RT)

12:35 PM 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 …

Discussion: Cleveland Magazine, JIMROMENESKO.COM, GalleyCat, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, @urvaksh, @adamwagner1990, @majorcbs, @johnrobinson, @will_bunch, @jmartnyt, @jfdulac, Crain's Cleveland Business, @franklomonte, @tom_derrico, Talking Biz News, Facebook and Erik Wemple

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Plain Dealer plans special print section to explain shift to digital — The Plain Dealer, which laid off about 50 employees Wednesday, “plans a six-page special section in Sunday's paper to further explain the changes ahead,” Jay Miller reports. — The laid-off employees …

Discussion: Connie Schultz …, FishbowlNY and Cleveland Leader

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: Erik Wemple, WebProNews, The Huffington Post, The Independent, TheBlaze.com, Daily Mail, @simonhoupt, The Big Lead, Gawker, Softpedia News, The Drum, New York Magazine and FTVLive

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Profit Tops Estimates on Digital Subscribers — New York Times Co. (NYT), the newspaper publisher controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, reported second-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as it drew more subscribers for its digital editions.

Discussion: @paulxharris

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Digital subscriptions up 35% at New York Times & IHT, 70% at Boston Globe — Circulation revenues in the second quarter of 2013 rose 5.1 percent over the same period the year before, a company earnings report says. Advertising revenue fell 5.8 percent over the same period. Overall, revenue was down by .9 percent.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Boston Herald, The New York Times Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, @mathewi, Mashable and Reuters

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.

Eric R Danton / Rolling Stone:

Bradley Manning Hollywood Drama Planned — ‘We Steal Secrets’ makers seeking screenwriters for new film — A Hollywood drama about whistleblower Bradley Manning is already in the works: Variety reports that Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney and producer Marc Shmuger are seeking writers …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Moviefone Blog and Guardian

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Did the media drop the ball on the Bradley Manning trial?

Discussion: Poynter, @froomkin, @sulliview, Foreign Policy, @piratenpartij, @abeaujon and @niemanlab

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

Discussion: Guardian and Yahoo! News

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Dish Hit With 53-Station Blackout in Fight With Raycom — Local stations go dark for satcaster in 36 markets in latest clash over retransmission payments — In the latest blowup over broadcast TV retransmission fees, Dish Network customers in 36 markets lost access to 53 television stations owned …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, EON and TVSpy

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.

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, @adwooldridge, @scottbix, @bloombergview and @scroll

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Netflix debuts multiple user profiles so your roomate won't screw up your recommendations — Members of a household using one Netflix account can each create their own viewing page — Netflix has built one of the world's most powerful recommendation engines.

Discussion: Netflix US & Canada Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu Plans to Hook Subscription Service Into Google Chromecast — Online TV joint venture says it is ‘actively working’ with Google to add Hulu Plus access to $35 streaming adapter — Google's cheap Chromecast Internet TV adapter already lets users stream free Hulu content to their televisions …

Discussion: AfterDawn.com, SlashGear, Broadcasting & Cable, WebProNews, Gizmodo, New York Times, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, The Verge, Business Insider and ReadWrite

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: Radio & Television …, @mattcover, Courthouse News Service and @buzzfeedandrew

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 …

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

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

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

Linda Kinstler / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Dis bonjour à LesEchos360, a French Techmeme for biz news — A news site in 2013 can't be flat. That's why French business daily Les Echos is gearing up to release LesEchos360, an aggregation tool that will cull articles from around the web to provide readers with an “expert filter” of business news.

Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Cable Earnings: Profit Up 6.4% Amid Revenue Growth — By - SAABIRA CHAUDHURI - — Time Warner Cable Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose 6.4%, beating analyst estimates, amid growth in the company's business services revenue. — Time Warner lost more video subscribers …

Discussion: MediaPost, Fox Business and Bloomberg

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.