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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
New York Times elevates comments from below the line — As part of a series of experiments to make reaction more useful to readers, comments are placed alongside a story — The New York Times is trying something new with comments: placing key reactions alongside the story narrative.
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GigaOM, FishbowlNY, Kirk LaPointe's …, @mathewi, @bydanielvictor, @christinebohan and @markham
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Thomson Reuters Twitter Account Is Hacked — The main Twitter account of news outlet Thomson Reuters was taken over Monday, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army group that has hacked other news organizations. — “Earlier today @thomsonreuters was hacked,” a spokesman for the news organization said in an email late Monday.
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Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg:
Reuters Profit Tops Estimates on Accounting, Legal Gains — Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI), a provider of news and information services, reported second-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as its legal, tax and accounting businesses gained. — Excluding some items …
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Wall Street Journal, Ottawa Citizen and Mondoviseone
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.
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@tyduffy, @lizzs_lockeroom, Cincy Jungle, Awful Announcing, The Insider, @richarddeitsch, @jamiemottram, @brianmfloyd and eMedia Vitals
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable extend deal to Friday afternoon — CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is battling Time Warner Cable. (Monty Brinton / Associated Press) — After a tense day of negotiations and a brief blackout, Time Warner Cable and CBS are giving themselves a little more time to come to terms on a new distribution deal.
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AdAge, TVNewser, CNET, The Wrap, CNNMoney.com, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, FierceCable and The Verge
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Experiments With Streaming Deals — Amazon Streams ‘Under the Dome’; Netflix Has Rights to ‘Hostages’ — By - AMOL SHARMA - — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Monday the broadcaster is experimenting with new business models for serialized dramas like apocalyptic summer hit …
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New York Times and Variety
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast. Next up: Plex and HBO Go? — Chromecast, the streaming video adapter introduced by Google last week, is quickly gaining support from a number of media platforms. Case in point: Vimeo told us it wants to support Chromecast …
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Mediashift, WebProNews, ReadWrite, bizjournals, App Advice, IntoMobile, IP&TV News, SlashGear, SlashGear, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, The Verge, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and Business Insider
Kira Goldenberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
TNR asks the big journalism question — Over at The New Republic, Marc Tracy offers a helpful peek into how an ignorant Fox News interview—a religion scholar who happened to be Muslim was asked why he wrote a book about Jesus—became a “traffic bonanza” for BuzzFeed.
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New York Times, The Daily Beast, @treybarrineau, @stkonrath, Erik Wemple, GalleyCat, The Atlantic Wire and New Republic
Sharyn Jackson / The Des Moines Register:
Whistle-blowers' ‘hero’ pushes for day in their honor — DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has taken on legendary status among whistle-blowers — people who expose misconduct or waste in government agencies and often risk their careers to do so. “Godfather,” “hero” and …
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UPI, @ase, Techdirt and @kgosztola
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 …
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GigaOM, AdAge, Forbes, Globe and Mail, AdExchanger, B&C, @ufomedia, iMediaConnection Blog, @davidapatton and MediaNama
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 …
Scott Martin / USA Today:
Twitter hiring for possibility of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's IPO prospect, one of the industry's most widely watched, appears closer to reality. The micro-blogging service has posted a job opening for a financial reporting manager. The person would be responsible for filing …
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VentureBeat, Betabeat, TheStreet.com, bizjournals, Mashable and Business Insider
BBC:
Google weighs 100 million takedowns — Google has received requests to remove more than 100 million links since January 2013 for web pages deemed to be in breach of copyright laws. — That is double the number it received for the whole of 2012 and a sign that publishers are stepping up their battle against internet piracy.
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Radio & Television …, PC World, Digital Spy and RT