Mediagazer: John Seigenthaler, longtime Tennessean editor, dies at 86 (The Tennessean)

12:50 AM ET, July 12, 2014

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John Seigenthaler, longtime Tennessean editor, dies at 86 — John Seigenthaler, a legendary Tennessee journalist, intimate confidant to two near-presidents and fierce advocate for racial equality, died Friday. He was 86. Mr. Seigenthaler passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family.

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Role of Sports Illustrated in LeBron James's Announcement Raises Journalistic Questions — By being the first to report on Friday that LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sports Illustrated beat a journalistic pack that included 15 on-air people at ESPN.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until ‘this morning’ — LeBron James' decision to come back to Cleveland is a monumental story for sports journalism. So how did SI get the scoop? — For Chris Stone, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated …

Discussion: Rolling Stone, SI.com, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, SBNation.com, Media & Entertainment, @cschweitz, @nataliewsj, @poynter, @hobocita and @stephen_bailey1

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten — Search engine formalising procedure to deal with more than 70,000 requests for links to be removed after EU ruling fallout — Google launched a dedicated page on Friday to publicise its advisory council on the right …

Discussion: Financial Times, Talking New Media, ThinkProgress and Search Engine Land

James Ball / Guardian:
Google admits to errors over Guardian ‘right to be forgotten’ link deletions

Discussion: Engadget

David Drummond / Guardian:
Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate

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Jack Gillum / Associated Press:

US knew in advance of British plans to destroy Guardian hard drives containing NSA documents — US given heads up about newspaper data destruction — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard …

Discussion: Guardian, The Intercept, VentureBeat, @jasonfelch, The Hill, @matt_cagle, The New York Observer, Washington Post, RT, The Newspaper Guild, @jackgillum and @janinegibson

Reuters:

Slim says he could exercise NY Times stock warrants — (Reuters) - Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim says he could exercise stock warrants in The New York Times Co which expire early next year, a move that would more than double his stake in the media company.

Discussion: @davidfolkenflik, @jeremybowers, @jacqui, @kenli729, @lpolgreen and The Huffington Post

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Twitter Shuts World Cup Goal Account ReplayLastGoal After FIFA Letter — Good news for Americans who don't have pay TV and want to watch the World Cup final on Sunday: Germany-Argentina will air on ABC, so you can watch the game on any set connected to an antenna.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @pkafka, @andresazocar, WebProNews, @waltmossberg and @jbenton

Patrick Kingsley / Guardian: In Egypt, watching the World Cup means choosing from two politically controversial networks

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
World Cup shows Twitter's unique strength: dominance in real-time sports news and commentary

Discussion: Forbes, @sporttechie and @kevindeshazo

Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story — The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — Last weekend, The Washington Post published a story I wrote with Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani about National Security Agency surveillance that sweeps …

Discussion: @charlie_savage, @mateagold, @conor64, @eff, @bartongellman, @jayrosen_nyu, @juliaangwin, @youranonnews and Guardian

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter's New Analytics Tell Advertisers And Publishers How Many People Actually Saw Their Tweets — If you're looking for more details about how all of your tweets are doing, Twitter today released a new analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter Card publishers, and verified users.

Discussion: The Twitter Blog, Marketing Land, The Twitter Blog, Adweek, Marketing Pilgrim, AdAge, The Next Web, Mashable, @twittermedia and WebProNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter — Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places …

Discussion: Digg Blog, Marketing Land and TechCrunch

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Sony Threatens to Bypass Licensers in Royalties Battle — A month after the Justice Department said it would review the decades-old regulatory agreements governing the music licensing agencies Ascap and BMI, the world's biggest song publisher has threatened to end its relationship with those groups if the changes it wants are not made.

Discussion: Music Week, New York Post, @sterlewine, @legrandnetwork and hypebot

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Netflix has hits, Emmys and subscribers. But can it survive its fight with cable? — LOS GATOS, Calif. — Reed Hastings, the lanky and goateed chief executive of Netflix, is on a mission: to turn his company into the Internet's first television network. — On Thursday, Netflix collected …

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts and Los Angeles Times

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Israeli airstrike destroys press car, killing Palestinian media worker — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Israel Defense Forces' airstrike on a car clearly marked as a press vehicle in Gaza City on Wednesday. The airstrike killed Hamid Shihab, a driver …