Mediagazer: Patch.com reporter faces jail for doing his job (Rem Rieder/USA Today)

12:00 PM ET, October 10, 2013

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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, Guardian, Free Press, @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.

Discussion: Poynter, Committee to Protect …, Guardian and @ggreenwald

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 …

Discussion: CNET, GigaOM, The Verge, Mashable, GigaOM, CNET, Engadget and Deadline.com

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Broadcasting & Cable, @jeffjohnroberts, Softpedia News, The Verge and The Next Web

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Broadcasters Denied Injunction Against Aereo in Massachusetts — The ruling comes as stations are prepared to take the fight against the TV streaming service to the Supreme Court. — Aereo has won an important ruling in a Massachusetts federal court. — U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton …

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.

Discussion: PE.com, Biz Beat Blog and Orange County Register

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 …

Discussion: AllThingsD, The Next Web, CNET, Digits, The Switch, Fast Company, WebProNews, Mashable, Engadget, The Verge, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News

Patrick Smith / The MediaBriefing:

The many unanswered questions of the UK's press regulation shambles — There is so much bile and unrest surrounding the vexed (and vexatious?) question of whether and how to regulate UK newspapers that it's hard to know where to begin. — Sir Brian Leveson was called before the Department …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Guardian and Big News Network.com

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

Discussion: Sky News, Kirk LaPointe's …, bbc.co.uk and Press Gazette

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.

Discussion: @craigsilverman, @aureliacotta, @antderosa, @kingisafink, @joshsternberg, @mathewi, @aureliacotta and @rajunarisetti

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Poynter, @timmathews, @abuaardvark, @niemanlab and TheBlaze.com

Laura Bennett / The New Republic:

The Andrew Wylie Rules — How the literary agent still makes millions off highbrow — Among literary agents, Andrew Wylie is as old school as they come. Dubbed “the Jackal” for his aggressive poaching of other people's clients, his distaste for commercial fiction and his disinterest in social media is legendary.

Discussion: @paulcarr, @rahulrg and Melville House Books

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

For Journalists Who Seek Out Hidden Things, a More Visible Brand — A LEADING nonprofit organization in the field of investigative journalism is getting a free branding and advertising campaign, courtesy of a leading creative agency. — How did the organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting …

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.

Discussion: Big News Network.com