Mediagazer: Huffington Post Germany Faces Resistance from Skeptical Readers (Spiegel Online)

2:30 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 …

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 … 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: TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, Forbes, Associated Press, Radio & Television …, The Verge, CNET, GigaOM, AfterDawn.com, Consumerist, 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, PC Magazine, VatorNews, Mashable, The Verge, The Next Web and @jeffjohnroberts

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 …

Discussion: multichannel.com/rss, AdAge, CNET, bizjournals, Reuters, Plagiarism Today and Variety

AllThingsD:

Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News — Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she was the leading pick for the high-profile job.

Discussion: @andreahong, @edcauchi and @mikeisaac

Ruth Bazinet / Medium:
Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets

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

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 …

Discussion: Press Gazette

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

Discussion: 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

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.

Discussion: @mikescarcella

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: The Next Web, AllThingsD, BuzzFeed, CNET, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, The Switch, Engadget, The Verge, Digits, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News and Mashable

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, Orange County Register, Biz Beat Blog and WPRI.com Blogs

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

IPC Media reports a 75% fall in pre-tax profits for 2012 — Publisher of Marie Claire and NME hit by writedown of assets during a tough year — Marie Claire and NME publisher IPC Media has reported a 75% fall in pre-tax profits for 2012, in part resulting from a £24.8m writedown in the value of the company's assets.

Discussion: London News and City A.M. Feed

Spiegel Online:

Huffington Post Germany Faces Resistance from Skeptical Readers — Arianna Huffington hopes to replicate the success of her other international blog and aggregation sites in Germany — but she may face more resistance here than in other countries. — The latest international edition …

Discussion: DW.DE

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 …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, Twitter Blog, WebProNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

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