Mediagazer: Associated Press plugs into music hub Audiosocket (Jeff John Roberts/paidContent)

7:50 AM ET, July 18, 2012

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Union: NYT wants to negotiate separate contracts for print and digital — The Newspaper Guild of New York says New York Times negotiators “inexplicably dropped a bomb on the process today by presenting two new comprehensive proposals aimed at negotiating two separate contracts: print and digital.”

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Contract Talks: Union Fury As Paper Proposes Separate Plans For Print And Digital — The long and contentious contract negotiations at the New York Times took an unexpected twist on Tuesday when the paper's management presented two different proposals for print and digital employees.

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Journalists who allow quote approval become complicit in political spin — It may be done in other nations, but giving in to demands for tweaks here and there turns newspapers into virtual propaganda — It's shocking enough for The New York Times to report that it and other news organizations …

Discussion: Poynter, The New Yorker Blog, The Jane Dough and CNN

Steve Myers / Poynter:
AP doesn't let sources approve quotes beforehand

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, American Journalism Review, Forbes Real Time and The Huffington Post

Erik Wemple:
New York Times reviews quote-approval policy

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

For NBCNews.com, a new website comes with new privacy standards — It's unlikely that many news consumers will read the fine print that comes with the splashy rebranding from MSNBC.com to NBCNews.com. — The new website's privacy policy was adopted to “align with NBC Universal standards in privacy …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Months of Transition Ahead for NBC News Online

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian's ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs — Guardian News & Media is re-opening its voluntary redundancy programme after its “digital-first” survival strategy's first year resulted in much higher company losses. — Operating loss grew 42 percent from £33.1 million …

Discussion: Media Week

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Guardian and Observer report losses of £44.2m

Discussion: Media Week, Journalism.co.uk, @kevglobal, Financial Times, Guardian, ninemsn and Telegraph

Amy Tennery / The Jane Dough:

Howard Kurtz Doesn't Understand Sexism — Or The Marissa Mayer Phenomenon — Yesterday, Yahoo announced that Marissa Mayer, a high-powered Google executive, would become its new CEO. This was historic on a number of levels: For starters, she joined a group of just 18 other women who are currently CEOs at Fortune 500 companies.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Ten Questions for New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (This Won't Hurt a Bit! Okay, Just a Little.)

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Study: News websites link to themselves 91% of the time — Mainstream news organizations use hyperlinks to add context to their pieces, says a study by Mark Coddington at the University of Texas at Austin. Independent bloggers are more likely to use links socially or as a way to frame their arguments.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter, Reddit and the newsroom of the future — By now, many people are becoming used to Twitter as a source of breaking news, whether it's a report about the death of Osama bin Laden or details about the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt. But it's still fascinating to come across new examples …

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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why ‘future of journalism’ confabs fail — After recently attending the latest in the never-ending series of “future of journalism” conferences, I finally realized why they all fail: They don't include the right people. — While these well-intended yakfests are rich in whining and dining ops …

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Associated Press plugs into music hub Audiosocket — The Associated Press continues to evolve from a news service to a broader, one-stop shop for a broad variety of content. AP now has audio offerings thanks to a new alliance with indie music licensor Audiosocket.

Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker:

SHOCKER: The New Yorker Acquires the Borowitz Report — After eleven years of writing nothing but fake news at the Borowitz Report, I have to tell you something that actually happened. — I'm excited to announce that The New Yorker has acquired the Borowitz Report.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Voice denied accreditation for Olympic stadium — Sports editor at Britain's oldest and biggest black newspaper describes British Olympic Association decision as ‘outrageous’ — The Voice, Britain's oldest and biggest black newspaper, has been denied accreditation to the Olympic stadium despite …

Tiemoko Diallo / Reuters:

Mali's media strike over attacks on journalists — (Reuters) - Mali's private press, radio and television carried out a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest at attacks on journalists critical of soldiers behind a coup in March and who still hold sway in the capital of the West African state.