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11:00 PM ET, July 29, 2013

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT interview with Obama: No surveillance questions?  —  Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear's interview with President Obama packed in enough news to fill three New York Times articles and one media story: “It was the paper's first exclusive chat with the president in nearly three years,” The Huffington Post's Jack Mirkinson writes.
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Ruth Margalit / The New Yorker:
The Israeli Answer to Al Jazeera  —  Timing could not have been more fortuitous for i24 News.  Two weeks ago, as the Israel-based news channel was preparing to launch its first broadcast, reports started trickling in that a chain of people had resigned from Al Jazeera in protest …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Why the time is right for The Washington Post & others to boost video initiatives  —  The Washington Post will formally launch PostTV today — a big gamble that it can widen audience and win significant advertising revenue by producing digital video programs and distributing the segments to various partners.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:   Washington Post Launches New Political Web Shows
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Media, left out of the relationship  —  Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom.  —  Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen.  This merger, they all say …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team  —  ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon.  “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film  —  CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned.  —  “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning judge to release verdict on Tuesday in WikiLeaks trial  —  Army private faces sentence of life in military custody with no chance of parole if convicted on ‘aiding the enemy’ charge  —  Bradley Manning, the self-confessed source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of US state secrets …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Hearst Poaches Todd Haskell From New York Times to Lead Digital Revenue  —  And Names Publisher For Still-Untitled Dr. Oz Magazine  —  Hearst Magazines has hired Todd Haskell away from The New York Times, where he had been group VP-advertising since 2007, to become senior VP and chief revenue officer …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Folio and Capital New York
RT:
FBI sued for keeping secret their file on journalist Michael Hastings  —  Two investigative journalists are suing the FBI after the government failed to respond on time to a pair of Freedom of Information Act requests filed for details on the death of reporter Michael Hastings.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Your Poor Couch!  Netflix Viewers Don't Cut Back on Regular TV.  —  Are you watching a ton of Netflix?  —  Then you had better make sure you're getting fresh air and exercise.  Because you're probably not cutting back on your regular TV habit.  —  That's according to a new study …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Why the New York Times is moving on from the Herald Tribune  —  We are in the run-up to the transformation of the International Herald Tribune into the International New York Times.  The grey lady is to become la dame grise.  —  Romantics, which means those who saw Jean Seberg selling …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google's New Zagat Is Much More Limited (For Now), but It's Free  —  Google today put out a gussied-up version of the Zagat website, Android and iOS apps.  —  Regular users of Zagat's famous local ratings might be disappointed to find that the new site features just nine cities: San Francisco …
 
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David Carr / New York Times:
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Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
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Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
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Robert-Jan Bartunek / Reuters:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp's Les Goodstein, who captained company's New York community newspaper efforts, has resigned
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
AP, Meltwater end litigation, will ‘collaborate on innovating new products’
Marc Tracy / New Republic:
How a Terrible Fox News Interview Became a Traffic Bonanza for BuzzFeed
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Are Magazines Blowing iPad Sales?
Discussion: @joshsternberg and eMedia Vitals
Nieman Journalism Lab:
At the intersection of journalism, data science, and digital media: How can j-schools prep students …
Liana Aghajanian / Public Spectacle:
Boing Boing Editor Xeni Jardin Talks About Her Ongoing Recovery From Breast Cancer
Discussion: @trevortimm