Mediagazer: Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast. Next up: Plex and HBO Go? (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

2:25 PM ET, July 30, 2013

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kim Zetter / Wired:

Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty on Lesser Charges — After a three-year legal battle and months-long trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was found not guilty on the most serious charge he faced — aiding the enemy.

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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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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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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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 …

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