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10:15 AM ET, August 7, 2013

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Staci D. Kramer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Don Graham on the sale of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, and the pace of newsroom innovation  —  Washington Post Co. chairman and CEO Don Graham kept the decision to sell the heart of the family business exceptionally quiet for months, avoiding public drama and employee angst while he went white-knight shopping.
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Chris Kirkham / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan Bet May Have Cost It The Paper  —  Even as the Washington Post saw its circulation diminish and its advertising revenues evaporate in recent years, the paper's parent company could draw on a conspicuous center of growth — a chain of for-profit colleges known collectively as Kaplan Higher Education.
Bloomberg:
Bezos's E-Book Overhaul Provides Blueprint for Post  —  Jeff Bezos has already transformed one traditional print business — books — into a digital one.  The experience provides a blueprint for how the billionaire technology executive is now poised to overhaul newspapers following his $250 million acquisition of the Washington Post.
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post For Four Times Its Worth  —  (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos has just shown how valuable one-of-a-kind newspaper properties can still be in the United States.  —  The multibillionaire founder of online retailer Amazon.com Inc may have paid more than four times …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
A new Babylon and the rise of the tech tycoon
Chris Hughes / New Republic:
What Jeff Bezos Is Thinking
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
AOL Bets On Programmatic With Adap.TV, Pulls Back On Patch  —  Here's a sign that Tim Armstrong feels he's regained control of the narrative at AOL : He's back in the market for big-ticket items.  —  AOL's $405 million purchase of the video advertising platform Adap.TV is the biggest acquisition …
Discussion: Poynter
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
AOL Is Acquiring Video Ad Platform Adap.tv For $405M  —  TechCrunch-owner AOL just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire video advertising platform Adap.tv in a deal that should be worth a total of $405 million — $322 million in cash and $83 million in AOL common stock.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
AOL Q2 Comes In (Slightly) Above Estimates With $541M Revenue, $0.35 Earnings Per Share  —  AOL just released its earnings report for the second quarter of the year, coming in ahead of Wall Street expectations with revenue of $541 million, up 2 percent percent from the same period last year, and diluted earnings per share of $0.35.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN taps Bloomberg TV head to oversee new digital integration effort  —  In a new effort to “connect digital and television,” CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker has announced that Bloomberg TV head Andrew Morse will join the network as Senior Vice President overseeing domestic newsgathering …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
This Year's Yemen Leak Isn't Angering Congress as Much as Last Year's  —  Someone in the government told the press confidential details of a terror operation centered on Yemen.  In 2012, that meant broad outcry, with members of Congress calling for investigations and criminal charges.  In 2013: crickets.
Discussion: CBS News and Guardian
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Sam Thielman / Adweek:
Fox Will Invest $150 Million in Broadcast Programming  —  The newly-created 21st Century Fox had its first earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, and, perhaps befitting its status as half of the old News Corp., took half as long as most earnings calls with 15 minutes of presentation and another 15 minutes allotted for a Q&A.
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
21st Century Fox Reports Q4 Revenue Gain
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google's new search feature makes it easier to find seminal articles on big topics  —  When big news breaks, readers clamor for updates — but they also yearn for context.  For example, when word got out Monday afternoon that Jeff Bezos had spent $250 million to become the new owner of The Washington Post …
Lynne Marek / Crain's Chicago Business:
How will Globe, Post sales affect Tribune?  —  For Tribune Co., the recently announced sales of the Washington Post Co. newspapers and the Boston Globe group make clear there's still a market for major newspapers.  But analysts say they'll be worth more sold separately and sometime soon.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York’ magazine and ‘The New Yorker’ buck downward newsstand trend with stronger digital sales  —  New York's hometown weeklies are bucking one of the bleaker trends of the magazine industry, which as a whole faced a roughly 10-percent drop in newsstand sales during the first half of 2013, according to a report issued this morning.
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Netflix-style recommendations: From a cable provider?  —  IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, JOIN 'EM: COX CABLE'S NEW CONTOUR APP AND DVR PLUG-IN GIVES VIEWERS PERSONALIZED, NETFLIX-STYLE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TELEVISION VIEWING ON DEMAND.  —  Cox Cable is trying out something television viewers …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Cord-Cutting No Longer an ‘Urban Myth’: Pay TV Operators Drop 316,000 Subs in Past Year  —  Industry faces steeper losses even as housing market shows signs of recovery, according to Wall Street analyst Craig Moffett  —  The number of Americans jettisoning pay TV is still fairly small …
 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Rupert Murdoch pays tribute to ‘loyal and distinguished’ Richard Caseby as former Sun managing editor leaves News UK
Discussion: Guardian and @edgecliffe