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8:45 PM ET, June 23, 2014

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera journalists jailed for seven years in Egypt  —  Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed of Al-Jazeera English sentenced on terrorism-related charges  —  An Egyptian court has convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each …
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Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Egypt, a Kafkaesque trial concludes with a victory for censorship  —  Three Al Jazeera journalists, arrested in December, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms based on questionable evidence  —  It began with murmuring.  Someone sobbed.  Then the courtroom melted into a chaos of shouting …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Kerry hits ‘draconian’ Al Jazeera convictions
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Bigger Than Baseball: 25 Million Watch U.S.-Portugal World Cup Match  —  With an audience of 25 million viewers for Sunday's game between the United States and Portugal, the World Cup is moving into elite territory as a sports property on American television.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:   Nielsen and comScore Can't Tell You How Many People Streamed USA's World Cup Tie With Portugal
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
SCOTUSblog will appeal credential decision, which said blog was not independent of law firm  —  The walls erected by traditional media  —  This was a morning of ironies.  At 9:30 a.m., six members of the blog staff were live-blogging the Supreme Court's orders, followed by opinions at 10 a.m. There were 10,000 readers.
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Denies Blocking Extremist Accounts in Russia  —  Twitter Inc. (TWTR) said it hasn't agreed to block extremist accounts in Russia, rebutting earlier statements by the country that access was being restricted.  —  Instead, the San Francisco-based microblogging service said it's …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
CNN partnering with Georgia Institute of Technology to study drone use for journalism  —  CNN to study drone use for reporting  —  Seeking to speed up government rule-making about the use of drones in newsgathering, CNN and the Georgia Institute of Technology said Monday that they would jointly study …
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker wants to double its staff by end of 2015  —  Growth-mode Gawker aiming for traffic and staff bumps  —  As it continues to court a mass, if scattered, readership across its network of sites, Gawker Media leadership is looking for a sizable rise in unique U.S. visitors a month by the end of 2014 …
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Sells Community Newspaper Group  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is selling its Community Newspaper Group, which distributes more than 235,000 copies of its papers in New York City, to Les and Jennifer Goodstein, the publishers of such papers as Downtown Express and Gay City News.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Vanity Fair to host conference in San Francisco this fall, charging $5K a ticket  —  Vanity Fair's Fall Conference Taps Power of the Rolodex  —  Vanity Fair magazine will host a conference in San Francisco this fall, becoming the latest publication to enter the potentially lucrative …
Discussion: @markhor, @pkafka, Re/code and @nytmedia
Press Gazette:
Magazine publisher Felix Dennis ‘famed for his maverick and entrepreneurial style’ has died aged 67  —  Publisher Felix Dennis has died aged 67 “after a long and painful battle with cancer”.  —  The businessman first found fame as one of the founders of 1960s counterculture magazine Oz …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Sports Illustrated Unveils A New Web Design And A Fantasy Sports App  —  It's been a busy few months for Time Inc. Not only has the publishing company spun out from Time Warner, it has also revamped the websites for its publications Time, Money, and Fortune.  Now Sports Illustrated is launching a new website, and new products, too.
Discussion: Forbes, MediaWire Daily and Adweek
CBC News:
Bell Media laying off up to 120 across Toronto TV operations  —  Bell Media is laying off up to 120 people across its Toronto television operations.  —  Bell Media owns and operates numerous channels in the Toronto area, including CTV, CTV News Channel, TSN, MuchMusic, Comedy, CP24 and BNN.
New York Times:
Vice Has Many Media Giants Salivating, but Its Terms Will Be Rich  —  A black S.U.V. recently rolled through the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and stopped in front of the converted warehouse that is the global headquarters of Vice Media.  Out of the vehicle stepped the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
 
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