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10:35 AM ET, July 25, 2013

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Newly rebranded International NYT focuses on digital — Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the publisher of the International Herald Tribune, holds up a slide from a New York Times Company presentation that shows two photographs of crowds gathered in St Peter's Square for the announcements of a new pope in 2005 and again in 2013.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Nick Denton Makes Peace With the Banner Ad — Excerpts: — What's your take on native ads: good, bad, or don't care? — Native ads are like any other ad: good when they're good, bad when they're bad, and usually indifferent. — Are social ads or native ads the future?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

San Francisco Chronicle:

KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names — KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.

Discussion: richliebermanreport …, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Desk, TVSpy, New York Magazine and LA Observed

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Was Newspaper Decline Inevitable? Veterans Conclude That Yes, It Was — Counter to conventional wisdom, they say advertising went away and there's nothing newspapers could have done about it — A broad study by a group of respected journalists into the disruption that the digital age …

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Fortune and Fortune

James Surowiecki / New Yorker:

It's not over for Barnes & Noble. — When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning, there was one obvious conclusion: the company was doomed. After all, the Nook was how B.

Discussion: bookforum.com

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Amazon launches interview series on Kindle Singles; first up: President of Israel — Amazon on Thursday launched “The Kindle Singles Interview,” a series of “major long-form interviews with iconic figures and world leaders.” — First up is an interview with Israeli president Shimon Peres …

Discussion: Amazon.com

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Closing Arguments Due in Manning Leaks Case — FORT MEADE, Md. — The court-martial trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose leaks of vast archives of secret government documents to WikiLeaks lifted a veil on American military and diplomatic activities, will begin to draw to a close on Thursday …

Discussion: Al Jazeera English

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online ad surge helps offset publisher's print slide — Daily Mail & General Trust says growth in digital revenues is close to outstripping rate of decline in newspaper advertising — The Daily Mail's publisher's digital newspaper revenues, from sites including Mail Online …

Discussion: The Media Briefing

Sally Jackson / The Australian:

ABC to feed traffic to commercial rivals: Scott — THE ABC is to launch a pilot project designed to feed audiences from its websites to those run by commercial media organisations, with managing director Mark Scott saying the public broadcaster wanted to help create a “thriving media ecology"'.

Discussion: ABC, Guardian and ABC

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

The Independent's journalists warn Lebedev cuts will be ‘tipping point’ — Staff tell owner plans for 27 job losses ‘threaten to tear the heart out of the writing staff’ as they ballot for industrial action — Journalists at the Independent have warned owner Evgeny Lebedev that the latest cuts …

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 …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, Light Reading, ZDNet, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Laughing Squid, @digiphile, @mat, @tcarmody, @edbott, @jyarbrough, @tcarmody, @joshsternberg, @pwthornton and @jayrosen_nyu

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV

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

Deadline:

CBS, Time Warner Cable Extend Deadline In Distribution Dispute — The parties have set a new deadline of Monday at 5 PM Eastern to settle their dispute. CBS its stations would have go dark at 9 AM ET Thursday on Time Warner Cable systems in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.

Discussion: New York Times, FishbowlNY, Adweek, Deadline.com, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, @cnbc, CNET, @brianstelter and The Wrap

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 …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, @eggerton and Deadline.com

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

It takes a ‘war room’ to launch Netflix's series — LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Netflix's Internet video subscription service works around the clock, but it's unusual for more than two dozen of the company's engineers and top managers to be huddled in a conference room at 10:30 on a midsummer Wednesday evening.

Discussion: GigaOM