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7:55 AM ET, July 30, 2013

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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 …
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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Marc Tracy / New Republic:
How a Terrible Fox News Interview Became a Traffic Bonanza for BuzzFeed
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.
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
CBS and TWC Talks Break Down, But CBS Isn't Going Dark Just Yet (Updated)  —  CBS to go dark in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas  —  As it turns out, CBS won't be going dark for Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas just yet.  —  “At the request of CBS, we have halted going dark on their channels.
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 …
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 …
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.
Guardian:
Publishers or platforms?  Media giants may be forced to choose  —  After threats to Caroline Criado-Perez, questions raised over who is responsible for libel or abuse via Twitter and Facebook  —  Twitter has spent the past few days doing a good impression of a company hoping that the public outcry …
Discussion: Twitter UK and theguardian.com
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
ITV Shares Advance as Content Creation Attracts More Revenue  —  ITV Plc (ITV), owner of the U.K.'s biggest commercial TV station, rose the most in eight months after first-half earnings increased as the company focused on creating content and bought production assets.
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian newspaper moves its UK, US and Australian websites to the new .com domain today  —  Back in May, we reported that British national daily newspaper the Guardian was planning to create a new global online identity, one that would serve as a home for its various digital properties around the world.
Discussion: Guardian
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
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Dispute Blocks Hollywood's Share of Chinese Box Office  —  LOS ANGELES — As box-office sales for American films soften in China, Hollywood studios are running up against a new problem: they haven't been receiving payments for the Chinese screenings of their films, according to reports in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter on Monday.
Discussion: Variety, The Verge and Deadline.com
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 …
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
AP, Meltwater end litigation, will ‘collaborate on innovating new products’
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
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