Mediagazer: Missed a World Cup gooooooooooaaaaalll? A new Twitter bot will catch you up (Joseph Lichterman/Nieman Journalism Lab)

3:15 AM ET, June 30, 2014

Top News:

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 and Glass

Emily Steel / New York Times:

After Supreme Court Ruling, Aereo's Rivals in TV Streaming Seize Opening — Mark Ely saw an opportunity, and he took it. — The day after the Supreme Court ruled against Aereo in a copyright case brought by the nation's major broadcasters, Mr. Ely was trying to scoop up Aereo customers …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal:
NBC in discussions with Dish over Dish's ad-skipping Hopper recorder, puts lawsuit on hold

Discussion: @shaliniwsj

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Fox moves to use Aereo ruling against Dish streaming service

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

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

David Carr / New York Times:

For Email Newsletters, 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.

Discussion: @msquinn, @ennisnyt, @rafat, @raju and @danshanoff

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

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

Devjyot Ghoshal / The Atlantic Online:

NYC's immigrant presses see substantial revenue from ads and strong subscriptions — Newspapers That Aren't Dying — There is no “digital first” strategy at 169-20 Hillside Avenue, a nondescript shop offering photo services, money transfers and video rentals in Jamaica, Queens.

Discussion: @adamanyc, Personanondata, Capital New York and The Newspaper Guild

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: Reuters, Forbes, Wired and USA Today

Reuters:

In defense of Rebekah Brooks: a British lawyer cripples the prosecution case — (Reuters) - Just weeks before her trial on phone-hacking charges was due to start, Rebekah Brooks got some crushing news: the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm learnt that her main defense lawyer could no longer represent her.

Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power

Discussion: UK Blog on The Huffington Post, @peterjukes, Mirror.co.uk, @susanpenhaligon, @hackedoffhugh, @martin_flanagan and Columbia Journalism Review

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: bookforum.com, @robertfaturechi, @danieldrepper, @nc5philwilliams, @kenroth, @mschwirtz, @dankennedy_nu, @anonyops and @tcarmody

Dave Winer / Scripting News:

New York Times never had blogs as they were edited, the term was usurped by reporters who felt threatened by blogs — I know what a blog is — A blog is the unedited voice of a person. — The lack of editing is central, because it's one person who's responsible for every word.