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2:15 PM ET, July 22, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
David Shuster Joining Al Jazeera America: Source  —  NEW YORK — David Shuster, a veteran of MSNBC and Fox News, is joining Al Jazeera America as an anchor, according a source familiar with the deal.  —  Shuster is the latest high-profile journalist to land at Al Jazeera America, which is expected to launch Aug. 20.
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Al Jazeera America Names ABC News' Kate O'Brian President  —  Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director for international operations, has been named as an interim CEO of the forthcoming channel.  —  A month ahead of Al Jazeera America's planned launch, the forthcoming international news channel is finally lining up its top executives.
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Aereo will launch in Utah on August 19  —  Aereo, the service that lets users watch live TV online and on mobile devices and save shows to a personal DVR, will launch in Utah on August 19, the company announced Monday.  —  Aereo is already available in New York, Boston and Atlanta.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Aereo as Bargaining Chip in Broadcast Fees Battle  —  As another television programming blackout looms, this time because of a high-stakes negotiation between the CBS Corporation and Time Warner Cable, there is a new wrinkle, courtesy of Aereo, the start-up that streams broadcast TV via the Internet.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Circulation revenue up 11 percent at Gannett  —  Domestic circulation revenue in Gannett's publishing division rose 11 percent in the second quarter, the company announced in its second-quarter earnings report Monday.  That gain, as well as gains in the company's broadcasting and digital businesses …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Time Warner Names Joseph Ripp CEO of Time Inc.  —  Resolves One Area of Uncertainty as New State of Flux Begins  —  Time Warner has named Joseph Ripp the next CEO of Time Inc., resolving one big question as the publishing unit prepares to strike out on its own but surprising observers who had bet on another candidate.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Forget second-screen apps.  Today, the TV is the second screen  —  Recently I had a great discussion with a friend of mine from Germany, who told me that TV networks over there are slow to embrace the future of television.  Some of that has to do with local regulations and the difficulty …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Future shuts iPad magazine tech. after seven months: what now for tablet publishing?  —  Future has closed weekly iPad magazine Tech. seven months after its launch, raising questions over the viability of original magazines designed for tablet devices, TheMediaBriefing can reveal.
Discussion: Talking New Media
David Carr / New York Times:
TV Foresees Its Future.  Netflix Is There.  —  Apple and Google were back making waves in the television world last week, with reports suggesting they were renewing efforts to use technology to transform the box in your living room.  —  But Netflix already has.  —  Netflix knows a little about transformation.
Discussion: ParisLemon
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
More Print Rollbacks Possible At Digital First  —  Digital First Media, which recently rolled back the print schedule at its Oneida (N.Y.) Daily Dispatch and will do the same at The (Hanover, Pa.) Evening Sun, may be planning more print cutbacks at its other newspapers, according to CEO John Paton.
Virginia Hughes / Phenomena:
How Forensic Linguistics Outed J.K. Rowling (Not to Mention James Madison, Barack Obama, and the Rest of Us)  —  Earlier this week, the UK's Sunday Times rocked the publishing world by revealing that Robert Galbraith, the first-time author of a new crime novel called The Cuckoo's Calling …
Danah Boyd / Medium:
Whistleblowing Is the New Civil Disobedience  —  Like many other civil liberties activists, I've been annoyed by how the media has spilled more ink talking about Edward Snowden than the issues that he's trying to raise.  I've grumbled at the “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” …
Discussion: New York Times
 
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Jim Romenesko:
An update on the Maine TV anchors who quit on the air
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Sun editor pleads not guilty to charges over alleged payments
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: @financial_team
Scott Timberg / Salon:
Cable TV to the rescue: Will the “quality” subscription model work for books, movies, music?
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
How Al Jazeera English gathered data to map Syria's rebellion
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Mike Allen / Politico:
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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