Mediagazer: Some use TinyLetter's email newsletters to replace blogs, and lose discussion in the process (Joanne McNeil/Medium)

8:35 PM ET, June 29, 2014

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

NYT Iraq coverage doesn't represent enough anti-intervention voices, relies too heavily on unnamed government sources — Covering New War, in Shadow of Old One — THE lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003 was not The Times's finest hour. Some of the news reporting was flawed …

Discussion: @stephenrodrick, @davidfolkenflik, @sulliview, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, Pressing Issues, @antderosa and The Huffington Post

David Carr / New York Times:

For Email, a Death Greatly Exaggerated — Here at the Media Equation, we pride ourselves on keeping our readers abreast of the newest technologies and approaches in reaching audiences. So it gives us great pleasure to reveal a radical publishing technology that is catching on in news media companies big and small.

Joanne McNeil / Medium:

Some use TinyLetter's email newsletters to replace blogs, and lose discussion in the process — Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss — Something is missing from this blogger reunion in our inbox — It has been more than a decade since I last saw a web ring.

Discussion: @pud, @tealtan, @lauraolin, @robinsloan, @aarron, @mailchimp, @mattdpearce, @ftrain and @ftrain

Chet Kanojia / Aereo:

Aereo chooses to “pause its operations temporarily” following Supreme Court decision — A Letter to Our Consumers: Standing Together for Innovation, Progress and Technology - An Update on Aereo — “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

Discussion: VentureBeat, Forbes, Capital New York, @aereo, VatorNews, Los Angeles Times, BetaBoston, Guardian, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Variety, Engadget, Re/code, WGBH News, Business Insider, New York Magazine, The Next Web, TechHive and Glass

Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:

GoPro, after robust IPO, seeks to become media distributor — GoPro, the camera maker whose customers have leaped from the edge of space, made a successful first-day jump Thursday into the world of publicly traded companies. But even though stock in the San Mateo company soared …

Discussion: Wired, USA Today, Forbes and Reuters

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Missed a World Cup gooooooooooaaaaalll? A new Twitter bot will catch you up — It's the golden age of sports Twitter bots. — The New York Times now second-guesses NFL coaches' play calls in real time with @NYT4thDownBot. If you're flipping between NCAA tournament games, @NailbiterBot will let you know when a game gets tight.

Discussion: @xdamman and The Next Web

Wall Street Journal:

NBC in discussions with Dish over Dish's ad-skipping Hopper recorder, puts lawsuit on hold — NBC, Dish Talks Ease Tensions Over Ad-Skipping — Two-Year-Old Standoff With Broadcasters May Be Easing — Dish Network Corp. is in discussions with NBC over Dish's ad-skipping digital video recorder …

Discussion: @shaliniwsj

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

Fox moves to use Aereo ruling against Dish streaming service — Fox has cited Wednesday's ruling - which found Aereo to be operating illegally - to bolster its claim against Dish — The clash with Fox centres on Dish's Dish Anywhere streaming service and its Hopper DVR ‘sideloading’ feature

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, @acedtect, Techdirt, The Verge, Gizmodo, Techdirt and Gigaom

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

TV exec Lauren Zalaznick tries hand at news aggregation with LZ Sunday Paper for women in media and tech. — Lauren Zalaznick's career has included stints as a movie producer, marketing executive and cable network president. Now she can add newsletter editor to her resume.

Discussion: MediaWire Daily and Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Case of James Risen, Times Reporter, Poses Dilemma for Justice Department — On Dec. 31, 2005, the C.I.A.'s acting general counsel, John A. Rizzo, received an urgent phone call from the White House about a chapter in James Risen's coming book, “State of War,” detailing a botched C.I.A. operation in Iran.

Discussion: @tcarmody, @mschwirtz, @dankennedy_nu, @anonyops, @danieldrepper, @kenroth, @robertfaturechi and @nc5philwilliams

Mohammed Ademo / Columbia Journalism Review:

Ethiopia reportedly fires 18 journalists from a state-run outlet — The quiet dismissal of some 10 percent of the station's journalists underscores the country's further descent into total media blackout — On June 25, when 18 journalists from Ethiopia's state-run Oromia Radio and Television Organization …

Discussion: Gadaa.com-FinfinneTribune

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Knight Foundation commits $1.4 million to improving DocumentCloud — Investigative Reporters and Editors announced today that the Knight Foundation has pledged $1.4 million to developing the document-hosting service DocumentCloud in order to make the platform “faster, easier to use and more robust.”

Discussion: IRE.org