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11:40 AM ET, June 25, 2014

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Supreme Court rules Aereo's service illegal, must pay copyright fees if it wants to continue operations  —  Aereo loses to broadcasters in Supreme Court fight for its life  —  The Supreme Court struck a dramatic blow against Aereo today in a ruling that puts the TV streaming service as it currently exists on its deathbed.
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Ruling a Likely Death Knell for Aereo  —  Broadcasters Get Breathing Room on Cord-Cutting  —  Barry Diller was clear from the beginning.  If streaming-TV company Aereo Inc. loses in court, he told The Wall Street Journal in 2012, “there's no Plan B.”
Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:
No jury verdict on Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman misconduct charges  —  The jury in the phone hacking trial have been unable to reach a majority verdict on charges against Andy Coulson and Clive Goodman of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office regarding the alleged payment to police officers for two royal directories.
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Peter Jukes / Live Tweeting the hacking trial:
How the Prime Minister nearly derailed the Hacking Trial  —  Yesterdays intervention by David Cameron after the guilty verdict for Coulson on Count One of phone hacking nearly derailed the whole trial.  As soon as the verdict was in Coulson"s QC, Timothy Langdale, called the Attorney General …
Guardian:
The Guardian view: News International was a media giant out of control  —  The phone-hacking trial produced a picture of widespread criminality.  David Cameron and the cabinet secretary still face serious questions over the hiring of Andy Coulson  —  David Cameron and Andy Coulson.
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want interview about crime at his UK papers
Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Andy Coulson: There was no ‘cooked-up conspiracy’ with News International, David Cameron says
Discussion: BBC and The Independent
The Huffington Post UK/PA:
Tony Blair And David Cameron Slammed By Milly Dowler's Sister For ‘Incestuous’ Press Relationship (VIDEO)
Discussion: Press Association and BBC
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste: don't abandon me and other jailed al-Jazeera journalists  —  As three journalists are moved to a new jail in Egypt, Greste's brother relays his call for their story to be kept alive  —  Peter Greste has called on the international community not to abandon him and two other journalists jailed …
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
US lawmakers reviewing $1B in military aid to Egypt after sentencing of al Jazeera journalists  —  U.S. lawmakers: Egypt's ‘descent toward despotism’ risks U.S. aid  —  (Reuters) - Senior U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they were rethinking the more than $1 billion in military aid Washington sends …
Discussion: Mediaite
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Time Inc. launches 120 Sports, a digital only sports network, with Pro Leagues, NFL  —  Time Inc. to Start 120 Sports, a Digital Network, With Pro Leagues  —  It's a sports network catering to the shortened attention spans of the mobile and social media generation: 240 clips …
Columbia Journalism Review:
What the SCOTUSblog credential ruling gets wrong  —  Beneath the committee's decisions, an apparent preference for traditional media  —  The Senate Daily Press Gallery announced yesterday that it did not err in April by rejecting SCOTUSblog's application for press credentials …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
More On Indie Labels And YouTube: Some Legitimate Concerns, But Still A Lot Of Misplaced Anger  —  Last week, we wrote about how some of the stories making the rounds concerning YouTube “blocking” musicians from using YouTube and taking down videos if they didn't agree to non-negotiable contract terms …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon responds to German antitrust complaint, says it wants a larger commission on ebooks  —  The German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein) announced Tuesday that it's asked German antitrust authorities to investigate Amazon's actions against publisher Bonnier in the country.
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Ofcom:
UK news consumption: 75% television, 40% newspapers; 41% access news on websites and apps  —  Digital news as popular as newspapers for first time  —  Accessing news on the web and mobile apps is now as popular as reading a newspaper, new Ofcom research finds.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Le Monde is reinventing the ad unit for mobile  —  France's Le Monde was creating a new smartphone app, though, which gave it an opportunity to build new ad formats from scratch.  The result is a new app with a clean reading experience where the ads are integrated into the editorial content …
Discussion: AdExchanger
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Women and minorities still just a whisper among op-ed voices  —  In a study of the op-ed pages of 10 newspapers around the U.S., from The New York Times to the Dallas Morning News, researchers looked at 22 columnists, Bridget Lewis wrote Tuesday for Phys.org.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar teases video startup Vessel, raises $75M from Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos  —  Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's startup Vessel  —  Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar still doesn't want to say much about the startup he has been working on since last fall.
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T, DirecTV tell congressional subcommittees they must merge to compete with TWC, Comcast  —  AT&T and DirecTV Try to Sell Congress on Benefits of Proposed Merger  —  Companies Say They Must Join Forces to Compete Against Comcast and Time Warner Cable
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:   AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/TWC mergers could put small ISPs “out of business”
 
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Andy / TorrentFreak:
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Discussion: Softpedia News
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Advance digital makeover of its newspapers — five years in and no turning back
Discussion: @poynter
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