Mediagazer: Dublin's ‘Storyful’ Monetizing News Clips for Citizen Video Journalists (Robert Andrews/Beet.TV)

5:20 AM ET, July 23, 2013

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

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David Kravets / Wired:

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

KTVU-TV meets with AAJA following slip-up — Asian American Journalists Association — Leaders from the Asian American Journalists Association and KTVU-TV met Friday to talk about what led to the station's infamous slip-up. — Earlier this month, the station incorrectly named the pilots of Asiana Flight 214.

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.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

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Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

Dublin's ‘Storyful’ Monetizing News Clips for Citizen Video Journalists — Having built a business verifying newsworthy amateur video for YouTube and several professional news organizations, Storyful now wants to have uploaders profit from their work as well as properly control their rights.

Thanks:@storyful

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Netflix Q2 2013 earnings show solid growth in revenue, a bit light on subscribers — Netflix said today that the web's top video-rental service generated revenue of $ 1.07 billion, and added 630,000 new domestic streaming subscribers during the company's second quarter.