Mediagazer: Blackout brawler: meet the combative CEO keeping CBS off your television (Greg Sandoval/The Verge)

9:05 AM ET, August 15, 2013

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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout — Three Southern California residents demand restitution over retransmission standoff — The stakes in the standoff between CBS and Time Warner Cable have just been upped once again — and this time it's angry viewers who are doing the upping.

Discussion: Courthouse News Service, Variety, Deadline.com and Broadcasting & Cable

Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:

Verizon FiOS gains customers as standoff continues between Time Warner Cable and CBS — Some Time Warner Cable customers say they've been left on hold when trying to cancel service — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (l.) his brother and New York Giants counterpart, Eli Manning …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Blackout brawler: meet the combative CEO keeping CBS off your television — The fight with Time Warner Cable is one of Les Moonves many battles — As the feud between CBS and Time Warner Cable (TWC) over retransmission drags on for a third week, more than 3 million TWC subscribers are blocked …

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 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, USA Today, New York Times, NPR, @mattseaton, @dangillmor, Bloomberg and The Hairpin

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
‘New York Times’ Publishes Articles on Facebook During Site Outage

Discussion: The Next Web

Rainey Reitman / Freedom of the Press Foundation:

Bradley Manning Did Not Hurt the United States — In his sentencing hearing yesterday, Bradley Manning took the stand and apologized for the “hurt” he inflicted on the United States. — While the legal strategy of Manning's attorney at this point—as it would be for any attorney …

Discussion: Pressing Issues and Gawker

BBC:
Bradley Manning ‘sorry’ for hurting US with Wikileaks

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, RT, @pme2013, @heardinlondon, The Raw Story and Business Insider

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNN Plans ‘Complete Overhaul’ Of Digital Operation For Fall — CNN is planning its most significant changes to CNN.com and the CNN digital platforms in more than a decade for the Fall. The channel is preparing to launch a redesigned site that not only looks different to users …

Discussion: Mashable, Variety, Lost Remote, eMedia Vitals, Adweek, NewscastStudio and AdAge

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:

Grim Day for Journalists: 3 Killed in Egypt, 1 Missing in Syria 365 Days Now — Three journalists were killed in Egypt on Wednesday as violence between ousted president Mohamed Morsi's supporters and police and military escalated. The deaths marked two grim milestones in journalistic freedom …

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Times, RT and TVNewser

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Committee To Protect Journalists Marks Grim Milestone Of 1,000 Killed

Discussion: Gulf News, Committee to Protect …, National Updates and Telegraph

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Full Fact launches online fact-finding tool — Journalists can use the platform - which is called Full Fact Finder - to find out where to locate accurate facts and figures on a range of subjects The UK-based fact-checking website Full Fact has launched an online finder which journalists can use to track down accurate information.

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Aereo CEO: Service will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO says.

Discussion: The Verge

Kristin Bergman / Digital Media Law Project:

After On-Air Mishaps, Embarrassed Newscasters Turn to Copyright Law — Whether we consider the purpose of copyright to be to protect economic rights or moral rights, copyright is a powerful yet dangerous instrument. Abuse of copyright, particularly using the Digital Millennium Copyright …

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television — It's good to be AMC Networks right now. — The season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad drew 5.9 million viewers in the United States on Sunday night, double the figure for its premiere a year ago.

Jessica Weiss / IJNet:

Lessons for news organizations from Facebook's mobile success — Facebook's recent announcement that it had made great strides in improving the mobile experience for its users may hold lessons for news. — The numbers showed that in the second quarter of this year, 41 percent of total ad revenue …