Mediagazer: Model View Culture's publisher takes no prisoners critiquing Silicon Valley, often hits feminist allies (Elizabeth Spiers/Matter)

3:10 AM ET, July 10, 2014

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Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge — The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator. The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.” — The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …

Discussion: All Aereo, Variety, All Aereo, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, Reuters, Re/code, @nsqe, @brianstelter, Deadline.com, @alisternburg, The Verge and The Next Web

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry — The Supreme Court's Aereo decision didn't kill the online TV business, or even add a chilling effect. If anything, it's business-as-usual for these busy startups. — Numerous companies that spoke with Mashable each said the ruling on Aereo …

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

News Corp. rumored to be putting together a new bid for Tribune newspapers — Rumor has it that News Corp — with a $2.5 billion cash kitty for acquisitions — may be mounting a new bid for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the six other Tribune newspapers.

Discussion: @laura_nelson, @kenli729 and @millie

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing says it can carry more debt after spinoff … Tribune Publishing may have the flexibility to carry more than $350 million in debt after its planned spinoff from Tribune Co., which sources say is expected to happen in early August. — In an amendment filed with the Securities …

Discussion: Multichannel News, Chicago Business and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Alberto Cairo / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Data journalism needs to up its own standards — Did you know that wearing a helmet when riding a bike may be bad for you? Or that it's possible to infer the rise of kidnappings in Nigeria from news reports? Or that we can predict the year when a majority of Americans will reject the death penalty (hint: 2044)?

Discussion: Gigaom, @sabrinatoppa, @alexrichards, @columbiajourn, @treycausey and @dan_e_solo

Gideon Spanier / The Independent:

The Guardian's chief executive on digital, global expansion, and the future of print — Andrew Miller: The death of newspapers has been exaggerated — As the owner of The Guardian overcomes the decline of print with strong digital revenues, its chief executive tells Gideon Spanier how it is adapting to the new age of publishing

Discussion: Press Gazette, @gideonspanier and London Evening Standard

Arif Durrani / Campaign:
Guardian plotting English language launch in India

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review and @abeaujon

Elizabeth Spiers / Matter:

Model View Culture's publisher takes no prisoners critiquing Silicon Valley, often hits feminist allies — “Speaking up every. F**king. Time” — How one feminist publisher is taking on the worst of Silicon Valley (and some of her allies, too) — The last time I heard directly from Shanley Kane, it was by email.

Discussion: @readmatter, @amystephen, @tomcoates, @medium, @jayrosen_nyu, @spacekatgal, @megan, @lizthedeveloper, @eggettelman, @espiers, @diggtech, @mimbale, @othiym23 and @jwherrman

Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat:

PubNative launches its attempt to one-up the native-ad template — Above: PubNative cofounder Ionut Ciobotaru (left) and AppLift CEO Kaya Taner. — Dozens of companies are rushing to capture the emergent native-ad market, and each one is desperate to differentiate itself.

Discussion: PubNative, Adotas and Pocket Gamer.biz

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

How Time.com is winning on Facebook — For some publishers, the sensational or emotional come-on is the tried and true way to boost social media traffic. But for a brand like Time — one that has build its name on trusted, authoritative news — it's complicated.

Discussion: @digiday, @_cooper, @digiday, @oldbuddeoldpal and FishbowlNY

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Dish tells FCC to block Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal — Satellite broadcaster Dish Network wants the government to block Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. In meetings with top Federal Communications Commission officials earlier this week, Dish said a combination …

Discussion: New York Times, Re/code and DSLreports

Alastair Sharp / Reuters:

Deal at Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper may avert strike — (Reuters) - Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reached a tentative contract deal on Wednesday with the union representing its editorial, advertising sales and circulation workers, likely averting a work stoppage at the country's largest national daily.

Discussion: Canadian Press

Tim Williams / The Awl:

Ex-ghostwriter for CEOs and thought leaders on how content grew while journalism declined and why she no longer ghostwrites — The Inflatable Thought Leader — You've probably seen the “business person writing about writing about business,” a recursion that only ends because the plug for an e-book has to go somewhere.

Discussion: @pramitnairi, @pmjgross and @seanersrocks

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren't — Should Facebook be allowed to decide what information we do or don't see? Should Google be responsible for ensuring that their search results don't offend or incriminate?

Discussion: @nathanjurgenson, @noahr and @ceodonovan