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5:45 AM ET, July 16, 2013

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Jessica Lessin:
Exclusive: Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service  —  Apple has a new trick up its sleeve as it tries to launch a long-awaited television service: technology that allows viewers to skip commercials and that pays media companies for the skipped views.  —  For more than a year …
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
What KTVU-TV did right after its slip-up  —  It has been great sport all weekend for media critics to excoriate KTVU-TV in San Francisco.  There's no denying that KTVU made a big mistake.  But when it sorted the mistakes out, the station did a lot that journalists should replicate.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian publisher cuts annual losses as digital revenues grow by nearly 30%  —  • Guardian News & Media increases digital revenues to £55.9m  —  • Parent company GMG reports profits before tax of £22.7m  —  Guardian News & Media cut its annual loss by 30% to £30.9m …
KJRH:
Tulsa World announces reorganization plan and layoffs of 50 employees  —  TULSA - The Tulsa World newspaper announced Monday a reorganization plan that will result in the reduction of about 50 positions over the next several months.  —  Twelve positions were eliminated immediately.
Discussion: Guardian and KOKI-TV
Jillian C. York / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Media Continues to Focus on Snowden Rather Than the Information He's Revealed … The above words, from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, are revealing: They tell us about a man completely aware of the gravity of his choices, and of the implications of the information he leaked.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CNN, ABC Veteran David Doss in Talks with Al Jazeera America (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Producer negotiating a senior editorial role but not the top CEO post  —  Veteran news producer David Doss is in talks for a senior editorial position with Al Jazeera America.  —  Doss is not a contender for the cabler's top job of president-CEO.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The last time Al Jazeera had a big American strategy, it was rejected
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans  —  For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.  But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January.
Discussion: Techdirt, Hit & Run and Firedoglake
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Rightsholders By End Of 2013  —  Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users, says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013 …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Actress to Fill One Vacancy in the Cast of ‘The View’  —  One of the vacancies on ABC's longtime hit daytime television talk show “The View” has been filled by Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy Playmate and actress.  —  The show's creator, Barbara Walters, announced on the air Monday morning …
Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
Pay-TV Providers Bid to End Sports Networks' Win Streak  —  Cable, Satellite-TV Firms Push Back on Rising Cost of Sports Programming  —  When the Houston Astros and Rockets decided to launch their own cable network last year, their owners hoped to reap a sports-television bonanza.
Discussion: SlashGear, Yahoo! News and The Verge
Katerina Matsa / Pew Research Center:
News magazines hit by big drop in ad pages  —  In a difficult advertising environment for the magazine industry overall, newly-released numbers from the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) show the nation's news magazines being hit particularly hard.  —  Total consumer magazine ad pages …
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
HuffPo Co-Founder on Where He Thinks Tina Brown's Daily Beast Went Wrong  —  Just in case you missed it, BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer was the star of the full-page front-of-book Q&A in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.  (Though the magazine doesn't ID him as such, he's also managing director …
Discussion: TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and Betabeat
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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