Mediagazer: Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

9:55 PM ET, August 28, 2013

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Brian Fung / The Switch:

Here's why you still might not be able to reach nytimes.com — By Andrea Peterson and Timothy B. Lee, Published: August 28 at 7:23 pm — Can you access the New York Times website at nytimes.com yet? For many internet users, including me, the answer to that is still no. The Times …

Discussion: Motherboard and OpenDNS Blog

Samantha Bomkamp / Chicago Tribune:

Hacked New York Times' website mostly restored — Access to the New York Times website has been mostly restored a day after hackers claimed credit for taking over the domain and preventing visitors from accessing news stories for most of the previous afternoon.

Discussion: Reuters

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Understanding the New York Times hack — Hackers — most likely the Syrian Electronic Army — attacked The New York Times' website Tuesday, complicating access for many users. In an email to Poynter, Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy writes the “situation is close to being fully resolved.”

Discussion: Washington Post, AllThingsD, ZDNet, PC Advisor, Business Insider, @poynter, ZDNet, news.nytco.com and The Atlantic Wire

Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:

Twitter, AOL lock down URLs in wake of New York Times hack — A data center in Oregon. Some data centers host the content users see on websites. Others, such as ones operated by Melbourne IT, hold crucial records that tell the Internet where to find the data centers that have the content.

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Verge, Hillicon Valley and New York Times

David Ford / ABC News:

ABC News Reopens Bureau in Beirut — ABC News has reopened a bureau in Beirut, Lebanon. Alexander Marquardt who covers the region for the network will be based there. The Beirut bureau is in addition to ABC's long-standing base in Jerusalem. ABC's first Beirut bureau was opened 45 years ago by a young Peter Jennings.

Discussion: Politico, @williamsjon, The Huffington Post and @marquardta

Reporters Without Borders:
News providers targeted by both government and opposition forces

Discussion: Poynter

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
As Syria Attack Looms, Few U.S. News Outlets Report From Damascus

Discussion: NBCNews, @jpeyron, Lawfare and The Daily Caller

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Arianna Goes (Even More) Global: HuffPost Live Launches WorldPost in Berggruen Institute Partnership — HuffPost Live Host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin speaking with Mehdi Hasan, political director of HuffPost U.K. — HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's live-streaming network …

Discussion: @ase

Ted Johnson / Variety:

MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copyright Infringement — Cyberlocker Hotfile has been found liable for copyright infringement for housing movies and TV shows on its site, the MPAA said on Wednesday. — The decision from the U.S. District Court in Florida was the first such ruling …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Hillicon Valley and Techdirt

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

BuzzFeed has a Medium problem — BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system. With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work of a promiscuous, condomless Satan …

Discussion: National Review, ThinkProgress, Sacramento Bee and The Raw Story

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

AOL Hires Associated Content's Luke Beatty in Key Strategy Role — Luke Beatty — the well-known entrepreneur who created Associated Content and later sold it to Yahoo for $90 million — will be taking a key job at AOL as its head of strategic partnerships.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ — We haven't heard much about Verizon's rumored plans to buy out Vodafone's stake in the company for $100 billion for a few months now, but according to the Wall Street Journal those talks have been “rekindled.”

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD and PhoneArena

Jim Romenesko:

Henry Blodget: 'One inspiring story that's worth telling is Nick Carlson's' — piece has over 850,000 views — and now BI boss Henry Blodget tells the story of Nicholas Carlson. — “Thanks to his training at [Gawker Media's] Valleywag, Nick had developed a tendency to be snarky, judgmental …

Discussion: @ajs

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Time Warner Cable's new Xbox app won't count against data caps — Time Warner Cable launched a new app on the Xbox 360 Tuesday that gives subscribers of the pay TV provider access to live feeds from up to 300 TV channels, including programming from networks like ABC, FOX and Comedy Central.

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, The Verge, Broadcasting & Cable and CNET