Mediagazer: Guardian set to report annual losses of around £35m (Arif Durrani/Media Week)

2:40 PM ET, July 11, 2013

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Brian Lowry / Variety:

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New York Times:

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pew: About a quarter of Americans say journalists contribute little to society — 27 percent of Americans say journalists contribute little or nothing to society's well being, according to a study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.

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Siraj Datoo / Guardian:

BBC's Jeremy Bowen successfully treated after being shot in Egypt — Corporation's Middle East editor has operation to remove shotgun pellets that hit his head while he was covering protests — The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, has had an operation to remove shotgun pellets in his head.

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Harry McCracken / TIME:

PCWorld Exits Print, and the Era of Computer Magazines Ends — The last of the big general-interest PC magazines is no longer a magazine. — By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJuly 11, 2013 — The news isn't shocking. In fact, it's sort of a shock it didn't happen several years ago.

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Arif Durrani / Media Week:

Guardian set to report annual losses of around £35m — Guardian News and Media is set to report pre-tax losses in the region of £35 million for its year to 1 April 2013 next week, around a 20% drop from losses in 2012. — Last year, Guardian News & Media …

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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Who is a journalist? Manning trial poses question of vital public interest — In this age of radically open networks, journalism is no longer a profession. It is a service to inform society anyone can provide — When Bradley Manning's defense attorneys wanted someone to explain journalism …

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Maxwell Williams / Los Angeles Times:

Top Museum Directors Protest L.A. Times Arts Reporter Layoff — Leaders of LACMA, MOCA, the Getty and the Hammer have sent a letter to editor Davan Maharaj calling for arts writer Jori Finkel's reinstatement, saying they are “dismayed” by the layoff. — It's not often a newspaper writer makes …

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Ben Woods / The Next Web:

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Lynda V. Mapes / The Seattle Times:

Top editor David Boardman leaving Seattle Times — Boardman, executive editor and senior vice president at The Times, is taking a new job as dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia. — After 30 years — and four Pulitzer Prizes — David Boardman …

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Joe Pompeo / New York Magazine:

Al Jazeera America: A Unicorn is Born — Where the magic will happen: Al Jazeera America's newsroom. — The modern realities of the media business have so accustomed us to seeing journalistic entities disbanded, either abruptly or in slow motion, that there's an undeniable fascination …