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11:20 PM ET, July 24, 2013

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV  —  Google just announced Chromecast, a TV dongle that lets you stream online videos straight from your phone, tablet or laptop to your TV.  Chromecast is based on a stripped-down version of Chrome OS, and interoperable with a multitude of devices.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google's TV  —  Google just demoted your television set into a second screen, a slave to your phone or tablet or laptop.  With the $35 Chromecast you can with one click move anything you find on your internet-connected device — YouTube video, Netflix, a web page as well as music and pictures and soon …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Streams Full HD to New Google Tablet, But Still No High-Def on Apple Devices
Discussion: CNET, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat
Abraham Moussako / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A: James O'Shea  —  The former Tribune newsman discusses where the company has been, and where it's going  —  James O'Shea, former editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, was close to the center of the successive storms at the Tribune company, from its ill-fated 2000 merger …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Cision
Josh Stearns / Mediashift:
Propaganda?  No. Bringing ‘Voice of America’ To America Is Good for Transparency  —  Fewer than half of Middle East residents think it's safe to express political opinions online, according to a study by sponsor Northwestern University in Qatar.  Explore the data on this interactive site …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Jacob Soboroff leaves HuffPost Live; third host to depart in two months  —  HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post's ambitious online video network run by the site's founding editor, Roy Sekoff, has lost its third host in two months.  —  Jacob Soboroff, who's been with the online video network since …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Penton Buys Aviation Week from McGraw Hill  —  The privately-conducted deal is the third for Penton since 2010.  —  McGraw Hill has sold Aviation Week to Penton in an all-cash deal.  The transaction is part of McGraw Hill Financial's ongoing effort to divest “non-core” assets and position itself as a financial intelligence company.
Discussion: Skift
Katy Burne / Wall Street Journal:
New York Probes Bloomberg Reporters' Access to Information  —  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is looking into how much access Bloomberg LP news reporters may have had to information about the media and technology company's customers, said people familiar with the inquiries.
Discussion: TVNewser and Capital New York
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Ask FCC to Restrict Gannett's Deal for Belo  —  The American Cable Assn., Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are objecting to a part of Gannett's proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.'s broadcast stations, saying that the deal threatens to drive up retransmission fees …
Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:
Talk is cheap(er): iHeartRadio goes after podcast and talk radio market  —  iHeartRadio is an interesting beast.  It was started as a digital experiment within terrestrial radio giant Clear Channel.  John Hogan, the company's head of radio, once told me iHeartRadio was “not a business.”
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Mediaspectrum Raises $35.8M From Insight Venture Partners To Support Big Media Publishers  —  Boston-based Mediaspectrum, a company that has a subscription software service catering to big media publishers like Gannett, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Post and more …
Discussion: Mediaspectrum and CMSWire.com
 
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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Exclusive: Time Warner Cable, Hulu break off talks: sources
Discussion: The Verge and @lianabaker
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
With Plans For The First ‘Programmatic Upfront’ Event, AOL Pushes For More Automated Ad Buying
Discussion: AllThingsD and AOL Blog
Peter Sterne / The New York Observer:
Military News Explodes Online
The Tennessean:
Nashville City Paper shutting down
Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Awaiting Another Top Editor, Essence Faces Identity Questions
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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