Mediagazer: Could Twitter Help Fight Cord-Cutting? Here's Proof It Can (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

12:40 PM ET, October 10, 2013

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

Aereo Supreme Court Review: Broadcasters Will File Petition — Justices will have to choose between taking case or letting legal proceedings play out further Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo to continue offering unauthorized streams …

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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Aereo's TV streaming service coming to Android devices on October 22 — Aereo, a controversial start-up that slings over-the-air TV channels to laptops and mobile devices for $8/month, will be available to millions more customers later this month. — The company, which had earlier …

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: Broadcasters Denied Injunction Against Aereo in Massachusetts

Leonard Downie Jr / Committee to Protect Journalists:

The Obama Administration and the Press — Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America — U.S. President Barack Obama came into office pledging open government, but he has fallen short of his promise. Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Erik Wemple, Guardian, Free Press, @westwingreport, @rj_gallagher and @ggreenwald

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Obama Administration Has Gone To Unprecedented Lengths To Thwart Journalists, Report Finds — NEW YORK — Leonard Downie spent more than four decades at The Washington Post, including 17 years as the paper's top editor, and has heard plenty of grumbling from reporters blocked from access to government information.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Newspapers plan EU legal action if they are penalised for regulation stance — Publishers fear increased costs in libel and privacy actions if they do not back government's royal charter-backed regulator — The country's largest newspaper groups plan to mount a European legal challenge …

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Patrick Smith / The MediaBriefing:
The many unanswered questions of the UK's press regulation shambles

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Guardian:
Press still plans self-regulation despite ministers' rejection, says Times editor

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment — Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …

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Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Patch.com reporter faces jail for doing his job — A judge in Illinois has ordered a reporter to reveal a confidential source. — CONNECT — Joseph Hosey is facing jail time for simply doing his job. — Hosey, a reporter for Patch.com in Illinois, has balked at an order to reveal the identity of a confidential source.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Freedom Communications will buy Riverside Press-Enterprise — Freedom Communications, Inc., which owns the Orange County Register, has agreed to purchase The (Riverside, Calif.) Press-Enterprise, the O.C. Register's Mary Ann Milbourn reports. Freedom will pay $27.25 million for the paper, which is currently owned by A.H. Belo.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Could Twitter Help Fight Cord-Cutting? Here's Proof It Can — Underlying the ever-deeper partnerships that Twitter is forging with TV networks is the premise that getting viewers to tweet is a way the television industry can help itself. When people tweet about what they're watching …

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Jim Romenesko:

Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News alums call for review of Bill Marimow's dismissal — The firing of Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow “has the appearance more of a coup than a carefully considered management decision,” says Robert R. Frump, the head of the Inquirer's alumni group.

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Jodi Enda / Pew Research Center:

In print, newspapers cut opinion — Much has been written about newspapers cutting staffs, news pages and bureaus in response to financial pressures in recent years. But a growing number of dailies also have reduced the amount of newsprint they devote to editorials and commentary …

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Ruth Bazinet / Medium:

Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets … Twitter's attrition rate is hindering its ability to adequately grow its user base, and ultimately its revenue. Twitter is currently losing money, and its losses are accelerating as it heads towards an IPO.

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Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:

China arrests journalist amid crackdown on rumors — (Reuters) - A Chinese investigative journalist who has accused officials of corruption has been arrested, his lawyer said on Thursday, becoming the latest in a series of government critics to be swept up in Beijing's crackdown on rumors.

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