Mediagazer: ITV Shares Advance as Content Creation Attracts More Revenue (Kristen Schweizer/Bloomberg)

6:00 AM ET, July 30, 2013

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

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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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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:
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Shira Ovide / Digits:

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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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 …

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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.

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Guardian:

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

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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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