Mediagazer: Brick by brick — After years of shrinking ambition … (Michael Meyer/Columbia Journalism Review)

9:25 AM ET, June 26, 2014

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Jailed Al Jazeera Reporter Donates Funds to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt Plan — Cairo: An Al Jazeera journalist whose jailing triggered global outrage has donated 15,000 Egyptian pounds to a fund initiated by the president to boost Egypt's ailing economy, his brother said on Thursday.

Discussion: allAfrica.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Al Jazeera Gains Support In Fight For Jailed Journalists — NEW YORK — Al Jazeera executives and correspondents pledged Wednesday to keep pressure on the Egyptian government following this week's widely condemned convictions of three network journalists on spurious terrorism charges.

Discussion: Guardian, TVNewser and Mediaite

Mohamed Badr / Matter:

Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons — This Is What It's Like To Be a Journalist in an Egyptian Prison — According to an Al Jazeera cameraman who spent seven months locked up in one — It was July 15, 2013, the sixth day of Ramadan.

Discussion: @readmatter, @readmatter, @marklotto, @tom_d_, @fieldproducer and Guardian

Tim Wu / The New Republic:

Supreme court's Aereo ruling forces Americans to continue paying too much for TV — The Supreme Court Thinks You're Better Off Paying $150/Month for Cable — The depressing takeaway of the Aereo decision — Copyright, while meant for creators, is always in danger in becoming the incumbent-protection-act for the media industries.

Discussion: Re/code, John Bergmayer, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and International Business Times

Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster

Discussion: Forbes, Latest News & Headlines, MediaNama, Variety, The New Yorker Blog, TechCrunch, Plagiarism Today, Techdirt, Vox and Radio & Television …

Aereo:
Aereo CEO on SCOTUS ruling: “we are disappointed in the outcome, but our work is not done”

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

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Supreme Court rules Aereo's service illegal, must pay copyright fees if it wants to continue operations

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

Discussion: Slate

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's ‘Right to be Forgotten’ — Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation — The Internet is starting to forget. — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has started removing results …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Financial Times, TIME, Reuters, Daily Mail, PC World, International Business Times, Softpedia News, PandoDaily, Telecompaper, The Irish Times, NDTV Gadgets, Engadget and The Next Web

Suzanne Moore / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy — In the spin cycle that dominates our democracy, journalists and politicians are way too close. That relationship, exposed by the phone hacking scandal, makes incest look positively vanilla

Discussion: @sarahditum, @colvinius and Financial Times

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

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Guardian and @neilchenoweth

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: Live Tweeting …, Live Tweeting …, ABC and mUmBRELLA

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: Poynter, @ftrain, @dangillmor, @nealunger, @dhume, @miriamgottfried, @gregorydjohnsen, @buzzfeedandrew, @sladurantaye, @sulliview, @samkirkla, @lheron, @jilliancyork, FishbowlNY, @acarvin, @jeffjarvis, @toddwasserman and @hblodget

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

John Seeley, founding editor of WSJ's metro section Greater New York, is out — John Seeley out at W.S.J. amid newsroom cuts — John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper's metro section, Greater New York.

Discussion: @joepompeo and The New York Observer

Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:

Brick by brick — After years of shrinking ambition, Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post thinking global domination — In April, six months after her family sold the newspaper it had controlled for eight decades to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth walked onstage …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

“Global Voices: Truthdig Women Reporting” launches to showcase journalism by women — Rieder: A global platform for bold journalists — They are incredibly brave. — The women report on nations riven by war or throttled by repressive, often brutal regimes. They endure threats and attacks.

Discussion: 10,000 Words, @iwmf, @remrieder, Truthdig and Truthdig

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, @ggreenwald, Ted Rall's Rallblog, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @radleybalko, @paulcarr, bookforum.com, @markgongloff, @billmon1, @fklonsky, @daveweigel, @mattlynley, @glennf, @nitashatiku, @tedrall, @melissagira, @luthorceo and @trevortimm

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo to Charge Some Advertisers Only for Ads People Actually See — Portal's Viewability Product Limited to U.S. Desktop Ads at the Start — Short Form Video — Online advertisers have long known that a good chunk of their ads run in locations where very few people see them even when the webpage loads.

Discussion: Digiday and Wall Street Journal