Mediagazer: Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage (Brian Barrett/Gizmodo)

11:40 PM ET, July 30, 2013

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[UPDATED] Cleveland Plain Dealer layoffs coming tomorrow — UPDATE: Here's the company memo:

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Facebook Said to Plan to Sell TV-Style Ads for $2.5M Each — Facebook Inc. (FB), seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 million a day, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests — What is Google Glass good for, beyond showing off at technology conferences? Google's augmented eyewear has plenty of sceptics, but here's one scenario: — “When there's a wall of police firing plastic bullets at you …

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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:

Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage — Earlier today, visitors to the Chicago Tribune's homepage were greeted not with traditional lead story or splash image. Instead, there was an adorable kitty, a placeholder headline, and the word test over and over again.

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Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

The Bradley Manning verdict is still bad news for the press — The Obama administration's war on leaks and, by extension, the work of investigative reporters, has been unrelenting — The American journalism trade is breathing a collective - but premature and, in many cases, grossly hypocritical - sigh of relief today.

Kim Zetter / Wired:
Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty on Lesser Charges

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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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate panel approves Wheeler to lead FCC — The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Tuesday advanced Tom Wheeler's nomination to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Senate floor. — The panel approved his nomination by a voice vote, although there were scattered “no” votes from Republicans.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Greenwald: NSA hearing cancelled — This week's informal congressional hearing on the National Security Agency's surveillance program has been cancelled, according to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who was expected to testify via satellite. — Democratic congressman Alan Grayson …

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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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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable extend deal to Friday afternoon

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Amazon scores Obama Q&A for Kindle Singles Interview series — A coup for Kindle's shop for mini e-books, the new interview series lands President Obama as its next subject. It's the latest move inching the e-commerce giant into the realm of news. — Follow @@joan_e — President Barack Obama.

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Should Publishers Fear Publicis Omnicom? — This past weekend's merger between Publicis and Omnicom is already creating ripples across the media industry. — Many publishers privately worry that consolidating two of the three largest advertising companies will have ongoing and lasting repercussions for their businesses.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Changes at WSJ's Greater New York Section — The Wall Street Journal announced promotions and new positions at its' Greater New York section in a newsroom memo that went out this morning. — Bob Rose will become the New York York bureau chief and John Seely, who has been the editor …

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Gordon MacMillan / Twitter Blog:

Guardian says Twitter surpassing other social media for breaking news traffic — Andrews Miller, Guardian News & Media CEO, says that Twitter is driving more referral traffic for key breaking news stories to The Guardian than other social media platforms. — Speaking at the recent …

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