Mediagazer: Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

4:55 PM ET, October 11, 2013

Top News:

Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads — Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, following in Facebook's footsteps, wants to sell users' endorsements to marketers to help them hawk their wares.

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.

Discussion: TVNewser, Poynter, Deadline.com, TVSpy, @pewjournalism, Broadcasting & Cable, @enrique_acevedo, @pewresearch, @brianstelter, @grouchybagels and The Huffington Post

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight — Aereo's arrays of dime-sized antennae. — (Credit: Aereo) — Television broadcasters Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to get involved in their fight against Aereo, the online service that streams their over-the-air programming to its paying members.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, @alexweprin, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, Variety, TVSpy, TIME and The Switch

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

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

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

Guardian:

Spies and journalism: when worlds collide — The raging global discussion about the proper limits of surveillance of the past few months will become harder to ignore — After the man who hated Britain, welcome to the paper that helps Britain's enemies. You are reading it now.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, @declanwalsh, @kathviner, Jon Slattery, Daily Mail and @arusbridger

Guardian:
27 of the world's top editors challenge claim that the Guardian aids Britain's enemies

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: @hblodget and 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: Guardian, Jon Slattery, ITV and Tom Watson MP

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: The Atlantic Wire, Free Press and Talking Points Memo

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android — Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android.

Discussion: The Verge, Electronista, ZDNet, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Fast Company, Softpedia News, WebProNews, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Digital Spy and AfterDawn.com

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

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.

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: Softpedia News, Mashable, GeekWire, Engadget and @pkafka