Mediagazer: Frontline receives $5.8M in grants to expand investigative reporting (Merrill Knox/TVNewser)

6:00 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 …

Discussion: TVNewser, Forbes, TIME, Quartz, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Daily Dot, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, @brianstelter, Gigaom, @aereo, FishbowlDC and Media Law Prof Blog

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, Radio & Television …, Latest News & Headlines, Softpedia News, Variety, Techdirt and Plagiarism Today

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.

Discussion: Guardian, The Huffington Post UK/PA, The New Yorker Blog, @peterjukes, Wall Street Journal, Press Gazette, @c4marcus, Press Association, @peterjukes, @c4marcus, New York Times, Daily Mail, Telegraph, ABC, @peterjukes and Guardian

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

Guardian:
The Guardian view: News International was a media giant out of control

Discussion: Metro.co.uk, The Independent, Daily Express, Telegraph, @jailmurdoch, @charliebeckett, Press Gazette, USA Today, Daily Mail and Top Digital Journal News

AAP:
News Corp silent on speculation Rebekah Brooks could be deployed to Australia

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Life

William Turvill / Press Gazette:
'My Lord, there's been a tweet': Phone-hacking blogger Peter Jukes reveals how Twitter disrupted trial on ‘most days’

Discussion: ABC and mUmBRELLA

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

Discussion: @peterjukes, Guardian and BBC

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

Discussion: Guardian, BBC and The Independent

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @buzzfeedandrew, @lheron, @jilliancyork, @acarvin, @jayrosen_nyu, @toddwasserman, @jeffjarvis, @antderosa, @chanders and @hblodget

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.

Discussion: @dhume, @miriamgottfried, @gregorydjohnsen, @sladurantaye, @sulliview and @samkirkla

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 …

Discussion: Adweek, Capital New York, MLB.com, Chicago Tribune, TechHive, Chicago Sun Times, @emilysteel and AdAge

Chris Gayomali / Fast Company:
Sports Illustrated's “Game-Changer” Of A New Video Platform Is Mostly Dudes Sitting Around Talking About Sports

Discussion: MediaWire Daily, Variety and The Wrap

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: TVNewser and Mediaite

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

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Business Insider and The Newspaper Guild

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.

Discussion: New York Times, @evelynrusli, @webbmedia, @medium and @nickbilton

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.

Discussion: David Sirota, @markgongloff, @daveweigel, @glennf, @mattlynley, @nitashatiku, @tedrall, @melissagira, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @luthorceo and @trevortimm

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, BBC, @ofcom, Guardian, @edvaizey and City A.M.

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 …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Techdirt and Talking Points Memo

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and @walldo

Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Frontline receives $5.8M in grants to expand investigative reporting — ‘Frontline’ Gets New Funding to Expand Investigative Reporting — “Frontline,” PBS' flagship investigative series produced by WGBH in Boston, has secured two new grants that will go toward a major expansion …

Discussion: FishbowlDC and PBS