Mediagazer: Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications (Caysey Welton/Folio)

3:50 AM ET, June 6, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Verizon Threatens Netflix With Legal Action Over Congestion Message — Here's the newest salvo in the Netflix/Verizon fight that blew up yesterday: Verizon is now threatening Netflix with legal action over the messages that Netflix is showing some Verizon subscribers, which blame Verizon for low-quality video streams.

Discussion: The Verge, Verizon Public Policy, Multichannel News, Bloomberg, Vox, @jorisevers, @theswitch, CNET, Electronista, @ransquawk, VentureBeat, Reuters, Gigaom, New York Times, The Hill, Techdirt, AdAge, The Next Web, Washington Post, USA Today, The Wrap, @dangillmor, @schezar and Engadget

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Netflix's Network Congestion Message Rolling Out On All ISPs, Not Just Verizon

Discussion: @danrayburn and DSLreports

David Folkenflik / NPR:

‘New York Times’ Editor: Losing Snowden Scoop ‘Really Painful’ — When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made the fateful decision to share sensitive documents with reporters revealing secret and mass gathering of the metadata associated with the phone calls made by tens …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @jcstearns, @davidfolkenflik and @blakehounshell

Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:

On the front lines of the battle over the press pass — On Wednesday, Amy had a post on a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit greater campaign finance regulation. We covered the hearing because the purpose of the amendment …

Discussion: New York Times, Media Channel, rcfp.org, @timfernholz, @mathewi, @antderosa, @dangillmor and Roll Call

Digital Media Law Project:
US freelancers and photographers more likely to be denied media credentialing, study shows

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, The Huffington Post, Investigative News Network and dmlp.org

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Here's how the recession affected jobs in newsrooms, publishing, advertising, and more — The Upshot has gone chart crazy today, with a new project featuring 255 visualizations of how job markets were influenced by the recession. In the words of New York Times developer and Upshot team member Derek Willis:

Discussion: New York Times, @carr2n, @niemanlab and The Awl

Ellen Killoran / International Business Times:

Hachette Announces Layoffs As Amazon Standoff Persists — Hachette Book Group, the publisher in a confrontation with Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced the layoff of about 28 employees Thursday. The layoffs were first reported by Publisher's Marketplace, and International Business …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, Mashable and Guardian

David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon Boycott Gets a Helping Hand From Stephen Colbert

Reuters: EU competition chief to examine Amazon, Hachette e-book spat

James Ball / Guardian:

Guardian launches SecureDrop system for whistleblowers to share files — SecureDrop platform allows sources to submit documents and data while avoiding most common forms of online tracking — SecureDrop makes use of well-known anonymising technology such as the Tor network and the Tails operating system

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Washington Post, @securedrop, @postbaron, @trevortimm, The Next Web, Press Gazette, TechPresident, @attackerman and @mathewi

Trevor Timm / Guardian:
Four ways Edward Snowden changed the world and why the fight's not over

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Dashiell Bennett named editor of The Wire — The Atlantic has named a new editor for its news curation website, The Wire. — News editor Dashiell Bennett has been promoted to the top masthead slot, the company announced today, replacing Gabriel Snyder, who left the company five months ago and now works for Bloomberg Media Group.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, @connorsimpson, @agolis, Politico, MediaWire Daily, The New York Observer, FishbowlDC and FishbowlNY

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Aereo Now Chromecast-Ready — Debut Comes After A Brief Delay — Following a brief delay, Aereo announced Thursday that its broadband TV and cloud DVR service now works with the popular Google Chromecast streaming adapter. — The extension, supported on Android-powered devices …

Discussion: Mashable, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and TechCrunch

Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:

Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter — Mosi Secret. (Photo via Facebook) — The New York Times sexed up its local coverage this weekend with a long and in-depth story, featured on the front page of the Sunday metro section, on an underground strip club-cum-brothel in the city.

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Latest Word and bookforum.com

Connor Simpson / The Wire:

The Strange Beneficial/Predatory Relationship Between TMZ and Justin Bieber — The ugly videos showing Justin Bieber saying racist things while he was still a baby-faced teen are apparently going to continue surfacing, though new reports allege TMZ has used the videos to blackmail Bieber into cooperation for years.

Discussion: TMZ.com, TMZ.com, Defamer, @alexia, UPROXX, Radio.com and Los Angeles Times

Caysey Welton / Folio:

Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications — Move will expand Ziff Davis' email database to more than 20 million. — Ziff Davis, a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc., announced it has acquired emedia Communications from Reed Business Information. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Report: Desktop/laptop computers still dominate sports consumption — The use of mobile devices to access sports content has doubled among sports fans since 2011. But desktop/laptop computers are by far the platform they use most often to read and watch content.

Discussion: @coversjon and @abeaujon

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Digital Growth to Prop Up Magazine Revenue Amid Print Losses, PwC Forecasts — Digital Ads and Subscriptions Growing Quickly — The halcyon days of print-based media are not returning in the near future, a new report said, as flat or declining revenues are expected at magazines and newspapers over the next five years.

Discussion: Publishing Executive News and Canadian Magazines