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12:20 PM ET, July 1, 2014

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
World Cup Ratings Soar; Univision Has Most-Viewed Telecast in History  —  As the clock ticks down to the 4pmET start for the Round of 16 USA/Belgium World Cup match, the TV ratings for other World Cup games continue to score big in the U.S.  —  Univision's airing of the Mexico vs. Netherlands …
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Wall Street Journal:
ESPN, Univision crack down on Vine World Cup highlights posted by competitors like SB Nation
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Pulitzer names Mike Pride new administrator  —  Mike Pride is the new administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University announced Tuesday.  Pride, the former editor of the Concord Monitor “led his small New Hampshire newspaper to national prominence and served as co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board …
Discussion: Politico
Brown Moses Blog:
Brown Moses launching crowdfunding campaign July 14 for open investigations site, Bellingcat  —  Brown Moses Announces Bellingcat - Open Source Investigations For All  —  I have big news to announce.  I will be launching a website called Bellingcat.  —  As a champion of open source tools …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Young Turks, with 68M views/month, generates $400 in one week from YouTube's Fan Funding  —  Online news channel chosen to test YouTube's ‘Fan Funding’  —  The dialog box for YouTube's new Fan Funding program.  This one features Poynter fellow Ben Mullin.
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
AP on robot reporters: 'I can't have journalists spending a ton of time data processing'  —  AP's plan to automate stories about earnings reports is designed to make life easier for human journalists, not to replace them, AP Managing Editor Lou Ferrara said.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Tumblr “shadow CEO” Derek Gottfrid is out according to internal email from David Karp  —  Tumblr's ‘Shadow CEO’ Is Out  —  A key Tumblr employee is out of the company.  —  Derek Gottfrid, who joined from the New York Times in 2010, is leaving, according to a memo David Karp sent to the staff.
Julian Chokkattu / TechCrunch:
US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons  —  Ever since the National Archives and Record Administration launched the Open Government Plan in 2010, it has increasingly been uploading content to Wikipedia to digitize and gain a wider reach for its holdings.
Craig Silverman / Poynter.:
Truth Goggles launches as an annotation tool for journalists  —  When Dan Schultz first described Truth Goggles close to three years go, he deemed it a “magic button” that could tell you “what is true and what is false on the web site you are viewing.”  —  That concept - which Schultz refers to as the …
Discussion: @jbenton and @billadairduke
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
BBC appoints Matthew Postgate as chief technology officer  —  Current controller of research and development was part of the management team that created iPlayer and built mobile services  —  The BBC has announced that it has appointed Matthew Postgate as its chief technology officer.
Discussion: broadcastnow.co.uk and bbc.co.uk
Max Willens / AdAge:
Aereo CEO Asks Subscribers to Make Congress Save the Company  —  Wants Lawmakers to ‘Protect Your Right to Use the Antenna of Your Choice’  —  Content Marketing 2014  —  Back in April, Aereo CEO Chet Kenojia made headlines when he said that a decisive Supreme Court loss would basically amount to the end of his company.
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
How Veteran TV Exec Dawn Ostroff Is Taking Condé Nast Beyond Print: A dozen films at studios, more than 30 in development  —  The century-old magazine giant Condé Nast made an eyebrow-raising announcement in October 2011.  Faced with declining print revenue, the company said it was getting into the entertainment business.
Discussion: @joepompeo
Agence France-Presse:
Russian journalists injured in Ukraine  —  Reporter Denis Kulaga and cameraman Vadim Yudin wounded by mortar fire in Lugansk area, day after colleague shot dead  —  Two journalists from the Russian television channel Ren TV have been injured by mortar fire in eastern Ukraine …
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
'I'm the one the Daily Mail warned you about' - Guardian launches T-shirt range mocking its adversaries  —  First came the newspaper.  Then came the website.  Then, some time later, came the Shoreditch coffee shop.  Now The Guardian has launched a range of T-shirts.
Chris Leo Palermino / Billboard:
After a Year of Experimentation, BitTorrent Bundle Wants to Make Artists (and Itself) Money  —  After hitting the ‘100 million’ milestone, BitTorrent, the data transfer protocol long associated with piracy, continues to try and clear its name.  —  One year and 100 million legal downloads later …
 
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
New York Times shutting down India Ink, its first country specific blog
Matthew Eltringham / College of Journalism feed:
BBC opens up its multi-lingual College of Journalism globally for free
David Holmes / PandoDaily:
Rdio acquires music discovery startup TastemakerX and its full staff; founder Marc Ruxin will be Rdio's new COO
Mary Clare Fischer / American Journalism Review:
Travel journal Roads & Kingdoms grew from Tumblr to 8-person team in New York and Barcelona
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Re/code:
Anonymous exec at big media company says Aereo ruling will be disaster for Broadcast TV
Discussion: ZDNet
Associated Press:
Timberwolves owner closes Star Tribune purchase
Discussion: TwinCities.com
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Twitter Scoops Up AdTech Firm Tap Commerce for Around $100 Million
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
ConnecTV Acquires TweetTV To Add Real-Time Analytics To Its Social TV Platform
Discussion: Multichannel News
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Content Recommender Outbrain Bans “Fake” Content From Advertisers
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Attorney General backs down on plan to censor news archives to avoid contempt risk
Discussion: Guardian and @dbanksy
Quinn Norton / Columbia Journalism Review:
A hacker helped ProPublica expose Russia's secret funding of the Syrian government