Mediagazer: Aereo CEO Asks Subscribers to Make Congress Save the Company (Max Willens/AdAge)

12:00 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 …

Discussion: Capital New York, Gawker, Forbes, Home Media Magazine and SocialTimes

Wall Street Journal:
ESPN, Univision crack down on Vine World Cup highlights posted by competitors like SB Nation

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Techdirt, @mathewi, @kevinablue, @bluechoochoo, @timkarr, @digitalshields, @reckless, @bryandfischer, @stephlauren, @perlberg and @davidbegnaud

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 …

Discussion: @lorenzofb, @journalismfest, @alastairreid3, @peterjukes, @peterjukes and @joannauk

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.

Discussion: Gigaom, The Wrap, Business Insider, @charlesrotblut and @chaughney

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

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

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

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.

Discussion: The Wrap, Capital New York, VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, Engadget and All Aereo

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

New York Times shutting down India Ink, its first country specific blog — NY Times Shutters Another Blog — The Great New York Times Blog Shutdown of 2014 continues. The Times has announced that it's shuttering India Ink, its first country-specific blog.

Discussion: India Ink and The New York Observer

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.

Merrill Barr / Forbes:

The ‘Community’ Renewal by Yahoo! is a Glimpse Into Television's Future — Community lives! — There's been a lot of talk in recent weeks regarding what would happen to NBC's recently cancelled cult hit. Originally, reports claimed the only saving grace for the series was a pick-up by Hulu …

Discussion: Deadline.com, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Reporter, Vulture, Gigaom, Inside TV, AdAge, Wired and VentureBeat

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 …

Discussion: @benpobjoy, @milesmaker, @alec_empire and hypebot