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7:50 AM ET, July 31, 2013

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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Good Jill, Bad Jill: The queen of The New York Times  —  April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark two years on the job.  On Monday afternoon, April 15, Abramson—who, at 59, is the first woman to serve …
Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer.  —  On a weekday afternoon in late June, a nondescript forty-year-old man in beige shorts, a blue Penguin sports shirt, and what appears to be a pair of shale-colored architect's glasses with parts of the frame missing gets on an uptown No. 6 train …
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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 …
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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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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USA Today:
How the digital age has reshaped the ad game  —  Madison Avenue is quickly morphing into Digital Drive.  —  Technological advances have changed everything from where consumers watch TV to how they buy holiday gifts.  In turn, ad agencies have revamped their hiring practices …
Discussion: PSFK
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.
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
BBC could be curbed under government plans to rein in dominance of media giants  —  The BBC could be included in a move to limit media ownership, the Government announced yesterday.  —  Culture Secretary Maria Miller launched a consultation on rules governing media plurality …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Demands New Judge in YouTube Copyright Fight  —  An appeals court is primed to review the long-running dispute a second time.  —  After swinging and missing twice, Viacom is telling an appeals court it needs an umpire who isn't blind to YouTube's alleged copyright infringement.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Before Fusion's TV Debut, A Secret News Site Posts Stories  —  Univision-ABC backed news outlet aims to lure Hispanic viewers during a competitive time for TV news  —  A tiny Miami newsroom has been mixing it up online, winning some digital notice for its reporting on the topic …
Nate Lanxon / Wired UK:
The Sun to include 2m daily codes in newspaper to jump online paywall  —  As it prepares to put The Sun's website behind a paywall on 1 August, News Corp has settled on an interesting plan to grant online access to those who buy the daily paper: it will print two million unique codes per …
Discussion: Press Gazette, The Sun and Guardian
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Experiments With Streaming Deals  —  CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Monday the broadcaster is experimenting with new business models for serialized dramas like apocalyptic summer hit “Under the Dome” and the coming thriller “Hostages,” banking on deals with streaming-video sites …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
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Don Clark / Digits:
Why Intel and TiVo Are Cautious on New TV Interaction
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Penske could be in the race for Newsweek
Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] Cleveland Plain Dealer layoffs coming tomorrow
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Changes at WSJ's Greater New York Section
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Al Jazeera America Announces 12 New U.S. Bureaus and Correspondents
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Gordon MacMillan / Twitter Blog:
Guardian says Twitter surpassing other social media for breaking news traffic
Discussion: Business Insider
Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg:
Reuters Profit Tops Estimates on Accounting, Legal Gains
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
New York Times elevates comments from below the line