Mediagazer: The Right (And Wrong) Way To Think About How Aereo Works (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

9:15 PM ET, April 22, 2014

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

The Right (And Wrong) Way To Think About How Aereo Works — Aereo, a service that lets users record broadcast TV shows over the internet and stream the recording to their mobile devices, is fighting for its life before the Supreme Court this week. (My colleague J.J. Colao is there following the case.)

Discussion: New York Magazine

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:

Supreme Court quizzes Aereo: Do TV streams break the law? — In high-stakes arguments on Tuesday, the Supreme Court's justices challenged an attorney for Aereo to explain why the startup isn't violating copyright law by providing streams of local television stations to paying subscribers without a license.

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Supreme Court Judges Worry About Scope of Aereo Decision, Say It Could Affect Cloud Computing — Several of the Supreme Court justices who heard arguments in the broadcast networks case against the online TV site Aereo expressed concern Tuesday that any decision they pass down would also affect cloud computing.

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Brian Ries / Mashable:

American Journalist With Vice News Captured in Eastern Ukraine — Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky has been taken by militia in Eastern Ukraine, Mashable has learned. — The reporter for Vice News, who has been filing a series of compelling video dispatches from Ukraine since early March …

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Close to Subscriber Deal With Charter Communications — First-Quarter Profit Up 30%, Helped by Olympics — Comcast Corp. plans to sell nearly four million subscribers in a two-staged deal with Charter Communications Inc., in what would represent a consolation prize for Charter's eight month pursuit of Time Warner Cable.

Discussion: multichannel.com, @mvpeers and @jbflint

Michael Sokolove / New York Times:
David Cohen: the Comcast EVP in charge of avoiding antitrust questions raised by TWC merger

Discussion: BGR, @cs_palmer, @miriamgottfried, @kimmasters, @brianstelter and Los Angeles Times

Craig Silverman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why Vox (and other news orgs) could use a librarian — The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. —William Macneile Dixon — Every 45 years, roughly half of the medical knowledge about cirrhosis and hepatitis is disproven or becomes out of date.

Discussion: @mapgoblin, @saralerner, @craigsilverman, @losowsky and @antderosa

Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:

Vogue.com staffing up; site to be relaunched in September during NY Fashion Week — Vogue.com in Expansion Mode — Vogue is in the process of expanding its Web site, WWD has learned. The magazine, which redesigned its site in 2010, is amassing a bigger staff comprised of a mix of new hires …

Discussion: @womensweardaily, @laureni and MediaWire Daily

Bloomberg:

Dish plans late-summer debut for internet TV package at $20-$30/month aimed at 18-34 age group — Dish Said to Target Summer Debut for Internet-TV Service — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is targeting a summer debut for its Internet-TV service in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Engadget and SlashGear

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Jonah Lehrer quietly launches new blog, gets Gladwell boost — On March 28, disgraced ex-New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer quietly launched a blog under his own name. — On Thursday, he got a Twitter boost from an unlikely source. — “Jonah Lehrer is back with a new blog. It is well worth reading.

David Leonhardt / New York Times:

New York Times launches The Upshot, aims to make data journalism part of “daily news cycle” — Navigate News With The Upshot — You have no shortage of excellent news sources — sources that expertly report and analyze news as it happens. Like you, those of us at The Upshot rely on those sources every day.

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Creating a new brand for financial news, in Michigan of all places — SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Carl Icahn is not pleased. On this Monday morning in early March the activist investor is taking to CNBC to respond to eBay after it rejected his bid to remove some members of its board.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

OC Register strikes content-sharing deal with news nonprofit — The Orange County Register has formed a content-sharing deal with the news nonprofit Voice of OC, OC Weekly Editor Gustavo Arellano reported Monday. — Reached by email Monday, Voice of OC Editor-in-Chief Norberto Santana Jr …

Discussion: Navel Gazing, LA Observed and @poynter

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Time Inc Board To Include Howard Stringer, Kay Koplovitz And Other Media Vets — Corporate governance watchdogs probably won't like the fact that CEO Joseph Ripp will also be chairman of the 10-member board after Time Warner spins off its publishing unit. After all, the directors are supposed to hold the CEO accountable.

Discussion: WWD, New York Post and Wall Street Journal

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Lauren Zalaznick Joins Shazam Board — Lauren Zalaznick, a former top cable exec at NBCUniversal, has joined the board of Shazam Entertainment, maker of apps that lets consumers identify music, TV shows and ads with a mobile device. — In September 2013, Zalaznick left NBCU after 12 years …