Mediagazer: Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

3:49 PM ET, October 11, 2013

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Pew Research Journalism Project:

How Americans Get TV News at Home — Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, Jodi Enda, and Kenny Olmstead — Even at a time of fragmenting media use, television remains the dominant way that Americans get news at home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Nielsen data.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV — Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research …

Discussion: Digital Media Wire, Pew Internet, Mashable, GigaOM and Broadcasting & Cable

David Carr / New York Times:

When Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too — I read an interview this past week with someone who gets his news from a narrow band of information providers. — He reads The Wall Street Journal, a really good newspaper that tilts right on its editorial page and sometimes in its news coverage.

Discussion: @dougsaunders, @antderosa, @mathewi and bookforum.com

Dylan Byers / Politico:

White House defends transparency record after scathing CPJ report — The White House is defending its record of transparency after a scathing report found that the Obama administration's unprecedented efforts to control leaks have had a chilling effect on journalism.

Discussion: Free Press, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:

This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was officially notified through Twitter — It appears the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't get in touch with its latest laureate Friday morning — and, out of sheer desperation, decided to hound the winner on Twitter.

Discussion: @nobelprize_org and Associated Press

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Newspaper sales dive enters 8th straight year — As digital advertising sales soared 18% to a record high in the first six months of this year, the revenues of the publicly traded newspaper companies slipped an average of 5.5% to enter an eighth year of unabated decline.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Government publishes final version of press regulation scheme with compromises on arbitration and Editors' Code Committee — The Government today published a revised blueprint for press regulation which is set to go for approval by the Privy Council at the end of the month.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Guardian, ITV and Tom Watson MP

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Phil Griffin: Cable News ‘In a sort of flux’ — This morning TVNewser attended a briefing to preview the new msnbc.com (more on that later), but while we were there, MSNBC president Phil Griffin decided to weigh in on the state of cable news, and of his own channel.

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight — Over-the-air television networks rankled by Aereo's service are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. — This is a developing story and CNET will update as it learns more. — Television broadcasters Friday petitioned …

Jim Romenesko:

Survey: 40% of publishers would advise their kids to go into the newspaper business — Cribb, Greene & Associates, the oldest newspaper brokerage in the U.S., says its fall 2013 publisher confidence survey results “indicate that publishers are feeling better about the near term future than they did in 2012 …

Discussion: @mathewi

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push — E-commerce Giant Widely Considered YouTube's Biggest Threat — Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube.

Discussion: GeekWire, Mashable and @pkafka

David Meyer / paidContent:

Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling — An Estonian court did not violate a local news site's right to free expression by holding it liable for offensive anonymous comments made under one of its stories, the ECHR has ruled.

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