Mediagazer: Spotify Australia: our major competitor is piracy (Lexy Savvides/CNET)

3:40 AM ET, June 27, 2014

Top News:

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: Latest News & Headlines, @themurdochtimes and @jackofkent

Economist:

British democracy damaged by hacking scandal, politicians no longer fear newspapers — Andy Coulson's malign legacy — The downfall of David Cameron's former press secretary has damaged British democracy — ANDY COULSON was once considered David Cameron's best hire.

Discussion: @econeurope and @peter_watts

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Despite London acquittals, U.S. probe of News Corp continues — (Reuters) - More than a year after asking for and receiving emails from News Corp's (NWSA.O) U.S. operation related to allegations of phone hacking and bribery, the FBI is still investigating whether British-based representatives …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Daily Mail and RT

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

Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette, Reuters and Guardian

Alicia Rancilio / Associated Press:

What's the hash? Why hashtags for TV shows matter — NEW YORK (AP) — During fresh episodes of “Pretty Little Liars,” the marketing and publicity teams at ABC Family huddle in a conference room to tweet live with fans. — So do cast members and the show's producers from where and when they can — and the dialogue often pays off.

Lexy Savvides / CNET:

Spotify Australia: our major competitor is piracy — Spotify Australia and New Zealand MD Kate Vale explains how the streaming service is trying to lure pirates onto the platform, and reveals hopes of striking a telco deal in Australia. — Spotify Australia and New Zealand MD Kate Vale. — Spotify

Discussion: TorrentFreak

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Daily, A New App From Buffer, Uses Tinder Gestures For Finding And Sharing Content — In May, Buffer — the app that competes against the likes of SocialFlow and HootSuite as a way for individuals and businesses to schedule and share things on social networks — added a new content suggestion feature …

Discussion: Buffer Blog, PandoDaily, Marketing Land, Gigaom and SocialTimes

ING:

Study: Only 20% of journalists always check their facts before publishing — 2014 Study impact of Social Media on News: more crowd-checking, less fact-checking — The Social Media Impact (#SMING14) survey conducted by ING among an international group of journalists and PR professionals shows …

Discussion: 10,000 Words, Poynter, @stkonrath, @kubremner and @tamarranicole

Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:

After years of shrinking ambition at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has the paper 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 and The New York Observer

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

Michael McWhertor / Polygon:

YouTube adding support for 60 FPS videos, tip jar for fan funding — YouTube announced today it's adding two new features that will benefit people who enjoy watching video games online and those who stream games online: 60 frames per second video playback and the option for fans to pay video creators directly through YouTube.

Discussion: Adweek, Hollywood Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald, @mikemcwhertor, @personasama, Variety, TechCrunch, Variety, Engadget and ReadWrite

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

WAN-IFRA:

In Spain more than 300 journalism projects have cropped up in five years, 60% rely on ads — Hundreds of new media boost and diversify journalism in Spain — The unprecedented structural crisis for the print media in Spain has resulted in the closing of more than 200 media outlets.

Discussion: Poynter

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: Folio, WWD, mUmBRELLA, Bidness Etc and MarketWatch

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: Adweek, TVNewsCheck.com, MediaPost and Multichannel News

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Independent music labels want EU to intervene in YouTube row — (Reuters) - Music trade association Impala has asked European Union antitrust regulators to intervene in a row with Google Inc's YouTube over its paid streaming music service, saying some conditions demanded by the company were anti-competitive.

Discussion: New York Times, PandoDaily and Business Insider

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

WatchESPN's Record 1.7M Concurrent World Cup Viewers Beats The Super Bowl — The WatchESPN app (or site, or however you access it) was the way that many Americans were watching the US vs. Germany World Cup match today. So many, in fact, that the site had issues serving all of its users in the first half.

Discussion: Forbes, @panzer, The Verge, Engadget 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.