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9:05 PM ET, July 25, 2013

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gawker is letting readers rewrite headlines and reframe articles  —  Relegating online comments to the bottom of an article seems so old-school newspapery in retrospect, doesn't it?  —  Long the default for many news organizations online, the message is that reader comments are an afterthought …
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Gloria Goodale / Christian Science Monitor:
How Bradley Manning's ‘aiding the enemy’ charge could jolt journalism  —  If publishing sensitive government information online, even with the intent of exposing perceived wrongdoing, is ‘aiding the enemy,’ investigative journalism could be seriously affected.  But that could be the big takeaway from the Bradley Manning trial.
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Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Laurene Powell Jobs backs ambitious media site  —  Ozy Media will create content for the so-called change generation.  —  FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs, the intensely private widow of Steve Jobs, has teamed up with other Silicon Valley luminaries to back an ambitious new journalism site dubbed Ozy Media.
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’  —  Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle.  —  The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …
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Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:
The One True Streaming TV Device
Discussion: Mediashift, Wired, VentureBeat and GigaOM
Craig Newmark / The Huffington Post:
Trustworthy Journalism in a Fact-checking-free World  —  Getting real about trustworthy journalism  —  Okay, I really just want news I can trust.  —  Couple years ago, I blurted out that “the press should be the immune system of democracy.”  —  Personally, I really don't like being lied to …
Discussion: @buzenberg, @mathewi and @ariannahuff
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Amazon fails to make a profit in Q2, but at least sales are good  —  Amazon just released some disappointing numbers for its 2013 second-quarter earnings.  But there is one bright side — sales are looking good.  —  The company reported revenue of $15.7 billion with a loss of 2 cents per share.
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sirius XM Reports Record Revenue, Aided by Auto Recovery
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Reuters
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.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Fired KTVU Producer in Asiana Gaffe: ‘My Hard-Earned Reputation is Intack’ (Exclusive)
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Glenn Britt to Retire as Time Warner Cable Chief  —  When Glenn Britt got started in the nascent cable television business in the 1970s, no one knew whether people would pay a monthly fee for something that was already available for free through an antenna.  “I thought that it was either …
Michael Estrin / Digiday:
Confessions of a Slideshow Writer  —  Michael Estrin is the author of “Murder and Other Distractions,” a novel set in a content farm where clicks matter way too much.  —  You've probably clicked on my work.  I'm a journalist and a writer.  I cover consumer finance, digital marketing …
Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?  —  On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University student who, for about four hours on the morning of April 19, was mistakenly identified …
Nielsen:
Global Ad Spend: Display Ads See Double-Digit Growth in Q1  —  According to Nielsen's quarterly Global AdView Pulse report, the first quarter of 2013 held few surprises for media sectors—continuing trends established in recent years.  Television remained the dominant media type in terms …
Associated Press:
German publisher Axel Springer sells regional papers, magazines in $1.2 billion deal  —  BERLIN — Axel Springer AG, one of Germany's most prominent publishers, is selling two regional newspapers as well as its television and women's magazines in a 920 million-euro ($1.2 billion) deal that will allow it to focus on its main titles.
Jim Romenesko:
Advance Publications memo: ‘Our new companies are performing well’  —  Randy Siegel, Advance Publications' president of local digital strategy, tells colleagues that “although we have reduced the frequency of home delivery [in New Orleans and other Advance newspaper markets] …
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 …
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Post’ editor Col Allan being sent to Australia to guide News Corp. papers there
Ted Johnson / Variety:
House Lawmaker Mounts New Push for Radio Performance Right
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
The Wire's David Simon: Koch Brothers Buying Newspapers ‘Last Nail In The Coffin’ For Print Journalism
Discussion: Politico and AdAge
Linda S. Morris / Macon Telegraph:
McClatchy reports lower profits, revenues in second quarter
Sally Jackson / The Australian:
ABC to feed traffic to commercial rivals: Scott
Discussion: ABC, ABC and Guardian
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
It takes a ‘war room’ to launch Netflix's series
Discussion: GigaOM
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
The Independent's journalists warn Lebedev cuts will be ‘tipping point’
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
It's not over for Barnes & Noble.
Discussion: Businessweek
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Penguin promises EU regulator to scrap Apple ebook deals
Discussion: EU Press Room, Engadget and TUAW
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Journalist launches PicFair as marketplace to license images
Discussion: The Next Web
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Hoopla wants to be a free Netflix for library users
Eliza Brooke / TechCrunch:
Video Platform OpenWatch Aims To Support Global Citizen Journalism
Discussion: SocialTimes