Mediagazer: Apple ordered to prepare for May 2014 trial on e-book antitrust damages (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)

9:25 PM ET, August 14, 2013

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Elizabeth Spiers / Flavorwire:

How Not to Launch a Site for Women: An Open Letter to Bustle.com Founder, Bryan Goldberg — Yesterday BleacherReport.com founder Bryan Goldberg announced that he had received $6.5 million in funding for a new women's site called Bustle.com from a variety of investors including Social+Capital Partnership …

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Bleacher Report Founder Responds to Fury Surrounding His New ‘Feminist Publication’

Discussion: Mediaite, PandoDaily, Business Insider, @saramorrison, @calebgarling, @fraying, @ktheaney, @weareyourfek, @nicole, @mccarthyryanj, @ajdaulerio, Forbes, @judyberman and @erikmal

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Committee To Protect Journalists Marks Grim Milestone Of 1,000 Killed — NEW YORK — The Egyptian military and police crackdown Wednesday on Muslim Brotherhood protesters reportedly led to the deaths of more than 100 hundred people, including a journalist covering the carnage, Sky News cameramen Mick Deane.

Discussion: Sky News, National Updates and Committee to Protect …

7daysindubai.com:

UAE journalist dies in Egypt clashes — A journalist who worked for a Dubai newspaper was shot dead in Cairo on Wednesday. — Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, died in Rabaa Al Adawiya Square amid clashes between Egyptian police and supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and @iwmf

Sam Marsden / Telegraph:
British cameraman for Sky News killed in Egypt

Discussion: Gulf News, BBC, @joshhalliday, @roddymansfield, Hollywood Reporter, @joshhalliday, @joshhalliday, @barnabysky, @joshhalliday, @skynewsniall, Irish Independent, Associated Press, International Business Times, Reuters, Mirror.co.uk, Guardian, @telegraphnews and @marklittlenews

Eric Celeste / FrontBurner:

Dallas Morning News Will Get Rid of Its Paywall and Debut New Premium Site in September — So, I asked some head honchos today about what newsroom sources have been telling me for weeks: that the DMN is switching to a “premium” site for subscribers and will do away with its paywall in September.

Discussion: CNET

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

New York Times Weaves Custom Ads Into 'Snow Fall'-Like ‘The Jockey’ — ‘This Time We Learned From Our Mistakes’ — “The Jockey,” The New York Times' new 10,000-word profile of horse racing legend Russell Baze, will draw comparisons to “Snow Fall” for its immersive web design and multimedia elements.

Discussion: VentureBeat, @foxbusiness, CNET, @brianstelter, Media & Entertainment, @jayrosen_nyu, Forbes and Hillicon Valley

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple ordered to prepare for May 2014 trial on e-book antitrust damages — An order issued on Tuesday by U.S District Court Judge Denise Cote, who is presiding over the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple's e-book pricing policies, notes all parties must by ready for a damages trial tentatively scheduled for May 2014.

Discussion: Reuters

Hannah Allam / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

U.S. journalist marks year in captivity as risks increase for war reporters — WASHINGTON — Tuesday marked a year since American journalist Austin Tice was detained while covering the civil war in Syria, one of at least 14 news media workers who've vanished or been seized in the past year, according to press advocacy groups.

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post and @freeaustintice

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Sorry, Craig: Study Finds Craigslist Took $5 Billion From Newspapers — For years, newspaper publishers have been saying Craiglist cut the legs out from under their industry by offering a cheap, easy online alternative to their classified advertising pages.

Discussion: Reuters, MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, @abeaujon and @jackshafer

Cordt Schnibben / Spiegel Online:

Circulation Declines Hit German Papers a Decade after America — It came to Germany almost a decade later than America, but the newspaper crisis is sweeping the country, with plummeting circulations and revenues. The German news media must reinvent itself in order to retain readers.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, @jeffjarvis and @amonck

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Is Testing Out A New ‘TV Trending’ Box At The Top Of Your Timeline — Twitter is betting big on TV, both as a source of traffic and as a potential source of lucrative advertising revenue. And that's leading the company to test out new ways of bringing even more TV content — and traffic — to its platform.

Discussion: CNET, Engadget, Pulse 2.0, Fast Company, The Verge, Mashable, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

BBC:

Bradley Manning ‘sorry’ for hurting US with Wikileaks — Pte First Class Bradley Manning has apologised for hurting the US by leaking a trove of classified US government documents to Wikileaks. — Pte Manning, 25, spoke at the sentencing hearing of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Discussion: New York Times, Business Insider and RT

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

What we can all learn from the New York Times website outage — The more we rely on digital information, the more vulnerable we are. Everyone needs a Plan B, independent of third-party hosts — Several hours after the New York Times website and mobile app went offline on Wednesday morning …