Mediagazer: ‘Almost half’ of the NYT's blogs will close or merge (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

7:35 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.

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 …

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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:

With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster — If enough people were unsubscribing from cable, networks might have eventually gotten out of the broadcast business altogether and abandoned their local satellites — This morning, the Supreme Court ruled against Aereo …

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court Ruling a Likely Death Knell for Aereo

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’

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Tom Harper / The Independent: Hacking trial exclusive: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson cautioned in corporate investigation

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Guardian:
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Peter Jukes / Live Tweeting the hacking trial:
How the Prime Minister nearly derailed the Hacking Trial

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Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Andy Coulson: There was no ‘cooked-up conspiracy’ with News International, David Cameron says

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

‘Almost half’ of the NYT's blogs will close or merge — A lot of the advantages blogs offer will remain at the New York Times, Assistant Managing Editor Ian Fisher told Poynter in a phone call: “We're going to continue to provide bloggy content with a more conversational tone,” he said.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT ends ‘The Lede’ blog — The New York Times' Lede blog is going away, but its “great breaking news content” will “instead be packaged differently and found in the relevant section of our site,” Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy tells Poynter. — The Times has been “moving away from blogs …

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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

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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 …

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste: don't abandon me and other jailed al-Jazeera journalists

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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Pando fires David Sirota and Ted Rall, both recent and high-profile hires — Pando Abruptly Fired Two High-Profile Staffers Without Notice or Cause — Over the weekend, Pando fired two of its hardest-hitting editorial staffers, David Sirota and Ted Rall, both nationally syndicated veteran journalists.

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Steven Levy / Medium:

Steven Levy leaves Wired for Medium to create “a new hub for tech stories that matter” — I'm moving to Medium — Creating a new hub for tech stories that matter — Anyone who's been in journalism for even a short time has become intimately familiar with the “change of venue” memo from a colleague.

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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 …

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Lisa Rossi / American Journalism Review:

Washington Post removes ‘ageist’ job ad for social media role — WaPo Job Ad: Explain Social Media to Older People — The Washington Post has pulled the portion of its online job advertisement for a social media editor that lists, among its job requirements, the …

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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.

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Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:

Let's work together: BBC in olive branch to local press — A senior BBC executive has held out the prospect of content-sharing with local newspapers in an apparent olive-branch towards the industry. — James Harding, director of news and current affairs at the corporation …

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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 …