Mediagazer: YouTube founders' new magazine-focused Web curation app Zeen opens in beta (Martin Bryant/The Next Web)

9:50 AM ET, July 27, 2012

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

New York Times' circulation revenue lags growth in digital subscriptions — Wall Street rewarded The New York Times Co. with a 10 percent stock price increase Thursday after a second-quarter earnings report with several significant bits of good news: — For a second consecutive quarter …

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Associated Press:
New York Times Stock Jumps After Revenue Report

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The Times Company's search for a new C.E.O. hits the final stretch

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Al Tompkins / Poynter:

Denver TV stations pool interviews with theater shooting victims, families — Kevin Torres is a multimedia journalist for KUSA-TV, the NBC station in Denver. Usually he shoots, writes and edits his own stories. — On Tuesday, the key interview in his story was shot by the ABC station in town.

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

YouTube founders' new magazine-focused Web curation app Zeen opens in beta — Back in April, AVOS, the company started by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, quietly launched a teaser for a new project called Zeen. Today it's gone live to people who applied for early beta access.

Jim Romenesko:

David Vitter to Steve Newhouse: I Urge You To Sell — “I urge you to sell” the Times-Picayune, U.S. Sen. David Vitter tells Steven Newhouse. — July 26, 2012 — Steven Newhouse — Chairman — Advance Publications — 950 Fingerboard Rd. — Staten Island, NY 10305 — Dear Steven Newhouse:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Saints owner offers to buy Times-Picayune

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

TCA: ABC News chief apologizes for Aurora mistake by Brian Ross — Ben Sherwood was critical of reporter Brian Ross. — ABC News President Ben Sherwood said reporter Brian Ross' speculation that James Holmes, the suspect in the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., could be linked to the tea party …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
ABC affiliate contradicts ABC News reporting on James Holmes' behavior in jail

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Joanne Ostrow / Denver Post:
Theater shooting: Media outlets covering Aurora paying for information

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Newsweek to launch live news broadcast — The Daily Beast, the website of Newsweek magazine, will begin broadcasting a live news broadcast next week. — Starting Monday, the morning news and political roundup known as NewsBeast will be broadcast live from the magazine's Manhattan newsroom.

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Is Pinterest Of Interest To Publishers? — Social platforms can be trendy. Outside of the big boys — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — there's a second tier that trades the title of the Next Big Thing. Lately Pinterest has had its turn in the spotlight. — Yet for many news publishers …

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Jonathan Kealing / PRI:

Public Radio International acquired by Boston public broadcaster WGBH — Public Radio International, the Minneapolis-based producer and distributor of public radio content, has been acquired by WGBH in Boston. — The transaction, which closed Wednesday, makes PRI an affiliated company of WGBH …

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Guardian gives readers option to ‘hide Olympics’ section on homepage — The Guardian is offering its readers the option of hiding the part of its homepage dedicated to the majority of its Olympics coverage, in a move similar to that which it took during the Royal Wedding last year.

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Google Gets Into the Cable TV Business, for Real — Google just announced as part of its Google Fiber broadband Internet service that it will be getting into the real TV business. — The disclosure came at a presentation in Kansas City, where it is unveiling a high-speed Internet offering.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
HBO, AMC, ESPN missing from Google Fiber TV channel list (Update: no Time Warner or Disney channels listed)

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook's Q2 Lands On Target — First look at Facebook's earnings: Profit of 12 cents per share on revenue of $1.18 billion. The consensus was 12 cents and $1.15 billion. Now on to other crucial numbers, like user growth. — Would you like a canned quote from Mark Zuckerberg?

Ann Friedman / CJR:

Presenting #realtalk from your editor — CJR's “place for super practical conversation about working in media”—in gifs! — Welcome to the new incarnation of #Realtalk from your editor! — This weekly column was inspired by my now-defunct Tumblr blog, but it's going to be more than one-liners …

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Erik Maza / WWD:

Every Page Counts: Magazine Publishers Release September Ad Counts — The cover of Lucky's September issue. — Photo By Courtesy Photo Photo By Courtesy Photo Photo By Courtesy Photo — EVERY PAGE COUNTS: In 2007, Vogue magazine celebrated a whopping 727 ad pages in its September issue with …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Financial Times: Our Digital Subscribers Now Outnumber Print, And Digital Is Half Of The FT's Revenue — A milestone reached as the world of old media continues its push in a digital direction: the storied, pink-sheeted daily newspaper the Financial Times, read by 2.1 million readers daily …