Mediagazer: comScore Says that Over Half of Digital Media Time Spent is On Mobile Apps (Mike Shields/Wall Street Journal)

3:25 PM ET, June 26, 2014

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Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:

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: @jayrosen_nyu

Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest: Newspapers participating in a Washington Post pilot program to share digital content …

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Newspapers fail to report the real story about phone hacking trial — Next week six men will be sentenced for their involvement in the interception of voicemail messages on mobile phones. Between them, they were either responsible for hacking into the phones or knowing about such activity.

Discussion: @jackofkent

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rebekah Brooks Says She Is ‘Vindicated’ By Acquittal In Phone Hacking Trial

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, Press Gazette and Guardian

Suzanne Moore / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy

Discussion: Channel 4 News, Guardian, @sarahditum, @rebecca_omonira, @colvinius and Financial Times

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

Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times and @neilchenoweth

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: Financial Times, Daily Dot, VentureBeat, PC World, PandoDaily, NDTV Gadgets, Softpedia News, Electronista, TIME, Marketing Pilgrim, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, Telecompaper, The Next Web, International Business Times and The Irish Times

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: TVNewser, Reuters and Guardian

Agence France-Presse:
Jailed Al Jazeera Reporter Donates Funds to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt Plan

Discussion: Guardian, Sky News Australia and allAfrica.com

Mohamed Badr / Matter:
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons

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

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: FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily, @joepompeo and The New York Observer

CBC News:

CBC shifting focus to digital and mobile; reducing staff, news broadcasts, in-house production — CBC to cut back supper-hour news, in-house productions — Corporation will have up to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020 — The CBC is shifting its priorities from television and radio to digital …

Discussion: Poynter, Toronto Star, Toronto Star, Canada NewsWire Group, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Mediacaster Magazine, Toronto Life, Huffington Post Canada, theguardian.pe.ca, CJAD 800, @lynn_coady, @cactusgipsy, @misterjohndoyle and Globe and Mail

Gustavo Arellano / OC Weekly:

Aaron Kushner claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — Aaron Kushner's Wrecking Ball — The Boston millionaire claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — They glumly marched into the third-floor newsroom …

Discussion: @thebenbergman, @charlesnlam, @laura_nelson, @ckrewson and The Newspaper Guild

Todd Wasserman / Mashable:

USA Today uses content discovery tool Curiyo to keep readers from leaving the site — USA Today Tries New Way to Keep Readers From Leaving — USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. — The newspaper has tapped Curiyo …

Discussion: @mica_ahmedabad

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

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Music industry reps call for uniform licensing across radio and web, but no consensus reached — More Calls to Fix Music Royalty Rules, but No Accord — Two weeks ago, a House Judiciary subcommittee heard from a group of music executives that the complex licensing system is broken, but no consensus emerged about how to fix it.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

MPAA Targets Reddit Community Over Movie Piracy — Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find. — Not all copyright holders take the same approach. Where the RIAA targets millions of infringing URLs per month …

Discussion: The Verge, @ppinternational and Daily Dot

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Inc. Sells Off Its Mexican Magazines to Concentrate on U.S. and U.K. — Publisher of Time and People Bought Grupo Editorial Expansión in 2005 — Ad Age Small Agency Awards — Time Inc., the owner of People, Time and Sports Illustrated, said Thursday that it had sold Grupo …

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines and MarketWatch

The Newspaper Guild:

SCOTUSblog Worthy of Supreme Court Press Credentials — The Newspaper Guild-CWA issued the following statement Thursday, June 26: — The Newspaper Guild-CWA strongly disagrees with the decision to deny Supreme Court media credentials to the highly informative and useful SCOTUSblog.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

NBCUniversal Taps Ex-HBO Exec Dina Juliano to Head TV Everywhere Product Strategy — NBCUniversal head of TV Everywhere Alison Moore has hired former colleague Dina Juliano, who previously led HBO's digital user experience team, to be SVP of consumer product strategy for the group.

Discussion: MediaPost, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable and TVNewsCheck.com