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9:25 AM ET, July 16, 2013

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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's Lord Patten plans to step down in 2015  —  Former cabinet minister, who has been criticised over payoffs, confirms he expects to serve one four-year term as chairman  —  Lord Patten, the embattled chairman of the BBC Trust, has confirmed he plans to step down from the role in 2015 despite admitting the timing was “not ideal”.
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Guardian:
BBC payments to senior managers rise by more than 60%  —  Payoffs to departing executives nearly £1.5m, with total remuneration coming to £4.13m in year to end of March  —  The BBC's remuneration payments to top managers leapt by more than 60% to just over £4m in the year …
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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.
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 …
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Guardian publisher loses £31m  —  Guardian News & Media, the publisher of The Guardian and the Observer, lost more than half a million pounds a week last year despite a round of redundancies in its newsroom.  —  The Guardian and The Observer are grappling with the shift to digital from print
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.
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
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Scoopshot scoops $1.2m from top-selling stock photographer, and opens its crowdsourced image site to all  —  While ‘crowdsourcing’ as a descriptive nomenclature has become a hackneyed term in recent times, the fact is there is no better word to describe a venture that taps the power of the people to deliver its service.
Nicole Auerbach / USA Today:
Remembering aspiring sports journalist a year after Aurora shooting  —  SAN ANTONIO — In death, Jessica Ghawi is where she always wanted to be — everywhere.  —  All these years later, the little girl who grew up reading Oh, the Places You'll Go! is scattered throughout the world.  She's in Peru.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
Atlantic Media Launches Digital Publication, ‘Defense One’  —  The Atlantic Media Company unveiled the latest addition to its digital portfolio Tuesday morning with the launch of Defense One, a web publication dedicated to national security coverage.  —  Under the direction …
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
 
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