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7:45 PM ET, July 12, 2013

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hulu's New Plan: Compete With Netflix and Amazon.  How Is Hulu Going to Pay for That?  —  So they're not selling.  But what are Hulu's owners going to do with the video service now?  —  The immediate response to that question, via people who provide answers on behalf of Hulu's owners …
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Business Wire:
21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Company to Maintain Ownership Positions in Hulu  —  NEW YORK & BURBANK, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Company today jointly announced that they will maintain their respective ownership positions …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu Sale Called Off  —  Disney, NBCU and 21st Century Fox will invest $750 million in TV site  —  Hulu is no longer for sale — and its current owners claim their strategies for the Internet TV site are fully in sync.  —  On Friday, 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Co. jointly announced …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
NYT to launch “immersive digital magazine” and new food news product, led by Sam Sifton  —  The New York Times is rolling out a number of new digital initiatives, including a tablet magazine and a new dining news product.  —  In a letter to the newsroom Friday, New York Times executive …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Jill Abramson announces big leadership changes at ‘New York Times’  —  The New York Times building. wallyg via flickr  —  New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced a slew of changes in newsroom leadership this afternoon.  —  The goal of the shakeup, according to Abramson …
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Justice Department to revise leak investigation policy  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is to revise its policies for dealing with news reporters during the course of leak investigations following recent criticism from media organizations, a department official said on Friday.
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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Tightens Rules on Media-Leak Probes  —  New Guidelines Follow Controversy Raised by Investigation of Journalists' Records  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department issued new guidelines for prosecutors conducting leak investigations involving journalists …
Associated Press:
White House criticizes Russia for providing ‘propaganda platform’ for Snowden with meeting  —  WASHINGTON — The White House criticized Russia on Friday for allowing National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to meet with human rights activists, calling it a “propaganda platform” …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters, RT and GlobalPost
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USA Today:
Snowden seeks temporary asylum in Russia  —  MOSCOW — Edward Snowden, the alleged National Security Agency leaker, said Friday at a meeting with human rights groups that he is asking for temporary asylum in Russia while he attempts to win permanent political asylum in a Latin American country.
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
OC Register Publisher Aaron Kushner: 'We're Still Actively Interested in Tribune' (Exclusive)  —  Though he suggested the company might not be worth as much after layoffs at the L.A. Times  —  Orange County Register publisher and greeting card tycoon Aaron Kushner is still interested …
Elodie Mazein / Agence France Presse:
Twitter hands over data in French anti-Semitism case  —  PARIS, France — Twitter handed over data to French authorities on Friday to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic and racist tweets after a months-long legal battle launched by Jewish and anti-racism groups.
Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Roll Call goes native  —  With Boeing-backed defense blog, Beltway outlet makes a foray into sponsored content  —  For the past year, Roll Call, a newspaper and website that focuses on Capitol Hill politics, has been in a state of flux.  Last July, CQ Roll Call, the publication's parent company, laid off 30 employees.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: Intel's upcoming TV service is going to be called OnCue  —  Intel's TV service, which the company's Intel Media unit plans to launch before the end of the year, is going to be called OnCue, GigaOM has learned.  The company has applied for trademarks for OnCue around the globe …
Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts
Jennifer Dorroh / Mediashift:
How EcoLab Wants to Reinvent Environmental Journalism  —  South America is home to the world's largest rainforest, its greatest river, and some of its most challenging environmental problems, from pollution to deforestation.  —  Yet environmental issues are often overlooked by the region's media …
Will Oremus / Slate:
The world's smartest newsreader: Prismatic has solved one of the Internet's oldest problems  —  It's called Prismatic, and it may have solved one of the Internet's oldest problems.  —  There was a time when humanity suffered from a dearth of information.  Now, thanks to the Internet …
John Paul Titlow / FastCo.Labs:
Inside Google's Infinite Music Intelligence Machine  —  The Beatles have a way of keeping Doug Eck up at night.  Specifically, the research scientist at Google grapples with one of the core problems of automated music discovery: With a band whose catalog is as evolutionary and nuanced as The Beatles's …
Discussion: hypebot
Jan Schaffer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
In New Orleans, public radio, local startups, and more are teaming up for the news  —  Editor's note: Our friends at J-Lab have a new report out on an interesting subject: how public broadcasters — in radio and television — are trying to fill some of the void created by cutbacks at newspapers.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
A Social, Elastic Model for Paid Content  —  The post A Social, Elastic Model for Paid Content appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.  —  I was interested to read today that Esquire is currently experimenting with a per-article paywall.  For $1.99, you can read a 10,000-word piece …
Discussion: paidContent
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The Forecast From Weather.com: A Flood Of New Content  —  It may be a cliche that people revert to talking about the weather when they've run out of things to discuss.  But Weather.com is betting heavily that there's a lot more to the conversation.  —  With a site that boasts 56.4 million …
Discussion: AdExchanger and eMedia Vitals
 
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
In the world of embargoes, they release no news before its time
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John Reynolds / Guardian:
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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
Field of bidders for Globe narrows
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Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
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Jason Illian / PublishersWeekly.com:
Analysis: A Band-Aid for B&N's Gunshot Wound
Discussion: Forbes
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Labels Force Playlist.com Shift To Online Radio
Discussion: TorrentFreak
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Upworthy's biggest threat: Becoming a one-note wonder
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Layhmond Robinson Jr., 88, Dies; Paved the Way for Black Journalists
Discussion: FishbowlNY