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12:25 PM 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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Aereo:
Aereo CEO on SCOTUS ruling: “we are disappointed in the outcome, but our work is not done”  —  Statement from Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia on United States Supreme Court Decision  —  Court decision denies consumers the ability to use a cloud-based antenna to access free …
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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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
'My Lord, there's been a tweet': Phone-hacking blogger Peter Jukes reveals how Twitter disrupted trial on ‘most days’  —  Peter Jukes,who covered the whole eight-month-long hacking trial on Twitter, has revealed how tweets thought to be prejudicial were brought to the court's attention on “most days”.
Discussion: ABC and mUmBRELLA
Guardian:
The Guardian view: News International was a media giant out of control
Peter Jukes / Live Tweeting the hacking trial:
How the Prime Minister nearly derailed the Hacking Trial
Discussion: Guardian, @peterjukes and BBC
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
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want interview about crime at his UK papers
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 …
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Chris Gayomali / Fast Company:
Sports Illustrated's “Game-Changer” Of A New Video Platform Is Mostly Dudes Sitting Around Talking About Sports  —  The legendary publication's video platform, 120 Sports, launches today.  And so far it looks an awful lot like... everything else.  We'll see.
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
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube Rolls Out A Bigger Video Player Ahead Of Music Subscription Service Launch  —  Ahead of this morning's keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference, the company has rolled out an upgraded video player on YouTube.com, which some people on Twitter are already noticing is significantly larger than before.
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 …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/TWC mergers could put small ISPs “out of business”  —  If AT&T isn't big enough to compete, how can tiny cable companies survive?  —  A trade group that represents 850 small cable companies across the United States argues that AT&T's purchase of DirecTV and the Comcast …
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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T, DirecTV tell congressional subcommittees they must merge to compete with TWC, Comcast
 
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Women and minorities still just a whisper among op-ed voices
Discussion: @poynter and The Huffington Post
Associated Press:
Barnes & Noble wants to separate retail, Nook
Andy / TorrentFreak:
YouTube Terminates Top Indian News Network For Infringement
Discussion: Softpedia News
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Advance digital makeover of its newspapers — five years in and no turning back
Discussion: @poynter
 Earlier Picks: 
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar teases video startup Vessel, raises $75M from Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos
Michael Cader / Publishers Lunch:
Hachette agrees to buy Perseus in three-way deal; Ingram to acquire Perseus distribution and client units