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4:45 AM ET, August 2, 2013

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 Top News: 
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Big Boss, Not Big Brother, Spotted Long Island Family's ‘Suspicious’ Google Searches  —  On Wednesday morning, six law enforcement officers visited a house in Long Island.  They were there to ask whether the residents — a married couple and their son — were involved in terrorism.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google  —  In what might be Medium's first widespread Twitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the “joint terrorism task force.”
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT's $150 million-a-year paywall  —  Growth slows sharply, but digital-subscriber revenue is propping up the paper  —  The New York Times's once-torrid paywall growth continued to slow in the second quarter, adding 23,000 digital-only subscribers.  —  That's the second quarter in a row …
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Profit Tops Estimates on Digital Subscribers
Discussion: @paulxharris
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 35% at New York Times & IHT, 70% at Boston Globe
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times C.E.O. Mark Thompson stays the course in second-quarter earnings call
Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:
Eric Deggans to leave Tampa Bay Times for job as NPR's first TV critic  —  Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, will become NPR's TV critic.  —  After nearly 18 years critiquing television, media, music and pop culture at the Tampa Bay Times, I will be leaving the newspaper …
Brendan Nyhan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The scandal attention cycle  —  How the media lost interest in IRS targeting, even as new facts emerged  —  At this point, the evidence on the Internal Revenue Service scandal is clear.  Contrary to the initial hype, there is no credible evidence of White House involvement …
BuzzFeed:
Is Tumblr Shrinking?  —  Yahoo bought Tumblr because Tumblr has millions of young users.  But are they sticking around?  —  Last November, David Karp posted on Tumblr's staff blog.  “I have an exciting and slightly overwhelming milestone to share with you,” the site's founder and CEO said.
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Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?  —  Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed.  Employees swarm around her, assembling rows of chairs for the afternoon's FYI …
Max Blumenthal / Mondoweiss:
Exclusive: Al Jazeera English's online US broadcast to end with the launch of Al Jazeera America  —  Staff members of Al Jazeera have informed me that as soon as Al Jazeera America (AJAM) launches on August 20, American viewers will be unable to access the online livestream of Al Jazeera English (AJE).
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Fusion Launching October 28 With Nightly Jorge Ramos Program, Satire Block  —  Fusion, the upcoming cable channel from ABC News and Univision, will launch Monday October 28, the companies say.  The channel will launch on a number of pay-TV operators, including Cablevision, Charter and Cox.
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Neal Ungerleider / Co.Labs:
How Vice Hacked Google Glass To Tell Crisis Stories  —  When I spoke with Tim Pool on the phone, the Vice reporter and media innovator (first to pioneer the use of drones for reporting on demonstrations, for instance) was having a typically busy week.  Just after coming back from working …
Discussion: HighTalk and Fast Company
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
YouTube to Open Production Studio in New York Next Year  —  That complements a 41,000-square foot studio in Los Angeles  —  YouTube will open a production studio in New York next year, the company announced at VidCon on Thursday.  The company complements similar facilities in London …
Discussion: MediaPost and CNET
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
CBS Alternative Programming Head Jennifer Bresnan to Step Down  —  Jennifer Bresnan, executive vice president of alternative programming for CBS, will step at the end of the summer, the network said Thursday.  —  Bresnan, who's led the network's alternative programming since 2008 …
Brendan Nyhan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Factchecking enters ‘Conversation’ in Oz  —  How an Australian news site is taking a new approach to the format  —  Australia has suddenly become a hotbed for political factchecking.  In May, PolitiFact Australia launched as the first international affiliate of the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Allie Jones / The Atlantic Wire:
What Women Want: Bylines  —  If you looked at the homepage of The New York Times' website right this second, you could count up and find that 24 men and 8 women have bylines.  Or you could go to WhoWritesFor, which culls data every five minutes to show the gender disparity on the front web page …
Discussion: Poynter, Jezebel and Salon, Thanks:@steverubel
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New Spying Accusations Against U.S.  —  NEW YORK — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is looking into a newspaper report that U.S. intelligence agencies helped New Zealand's military spy on a journalist working for the McClatchy newspaper chain, a spokesman told The Huffington Post.
Discussion: Poynter
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Plain Dealer plans special print section to explain shift to digital  —  The Plain Dealer, which laid off about 50 employees Wednesday, “plans a six-page special section in Sunday's paper to further explain the changes ahead,” Jay Miller reports.  —  The laid-off employees …
RT:
1,700 Russian websites on strike against new anti-piracy law  —  Over 1,700 websites in the Russian internet have joined an online strike against the new anti-piracy legislation, which came into force on Thursday, allowing pre-trial blocking of web-pages.  The content of the websites …
Discussion: Softpedia News
 
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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable Earnings: Profit Up 6.4% Amid Revenue Growth
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Hit With 53-Station Blackout in Fight With Raycom
Discussion: EON, TVSpy and Broadcasting & Cable
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Andrea Peyser Is Leaving the New York Post for a While [Updated]
Discussion: New York Post and Gawker
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Eric R Danton / Rolling Stone:
Bradley Manning Hollywood Drama Planned
Erik Wemple:
Fox News's James Rosen: Did the Justice Department really need to call him a ‘co-conspirator’? (cont'd)
RT:
Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Despite Controversy, Rolling Stone ‘Boston Bomber’ Issue Is a Hit on Newsstands