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2:40 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: Poynter, FishbowlNY, Politico and @raju
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.
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 …
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
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.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Tumblr “shadow CEO” Derek Gottfrid is out according to internal email from David Karp  —  One The Most Important People At Tumblr — Derek Gottfrid — Is Out Of The Company  —  A key Tumblr employee is out of the company.  —  Derek Gottfrid, who joined from the New York Times in 2010 …
Discussion: AdAge and VentureBeat
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
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
DirecTV Was In Talks With Competitor Prior to AT&T Deal  —  But It Broke Off Talks Amid Price, Regulatory Hurdles  —  Less than a week before it announced its $67 billion merger with AT&T, DirecTV continued to hold talks with an undisclosed competitor, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday.
Discussion: Forbes
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Former Time editor-at-large Harry McCracken joins Fast Company as technology editor  —  Hey, I'm Joining Fast Company!  —  Just over a month ago, I resigned from my job at TIME and rebooted this website.  I wrote at the time that I didn't expect to do Technologizer full-time indefinitely …
Matthew Eltringham / College of Journalism feed:
BBC opens up its multi-lingual College of Journalism globally for free  —  Welcome: Our website is now open to the world  —  BBC News studio with Huw Edwards When the BBC College of Journalism website was first launched it was designed for and aimed at a purely internal BBC audience.
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 …
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.
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.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS Makes Up to 20% More Ad Revenue Online Than TV per Viewer: Research Chief
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Crowdfunded journalism startup Contributoria adds membership options and print edition
Discussion: Contributoria and Matt McAlister
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
New York Times shutting down India Ink, its first country specific blog
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
How Veteran TV Exec Dawn Ostroff Is Taking Condé Nast Beyond Print: A dozen films at studios …
Discussion: @joepompeo
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
Re/code:
Anonymous exec at big media company says Aereo ruling will be disaster for Broadcast TV
Discussion: Electronista and 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
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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