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6:00 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.
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.
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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 …
David Carr / New York Times:
VCR's Past Is Guiding Television's Future  —  The last few weeks have been a rugged legal stretch for incumbent television companies.  —  First, an appeals court declined to rehear a case in which broadcasters sought to close down Aereo, a company that allows users to record and play back broadcast television over the Internet.
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
 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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News Corp's Les Goodstein, who captained company's New York community newspaper efforts, has resigned
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
AP, Meltwater end litigation, will ‘collaborate on innovating new products’
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Are Magazines Blowing iPad Sales?
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

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