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6:50 PM ET, July 1, 2014

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Google acquires music streaming service Songza for undisclosed amount; product intact for now  —  Google Buys Songza  —  Google has acquired music streaming service Songza after weeks of speculation around a potential buyout.  —  Songza uses information about the user and context …
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Tracking political spending on television ads just got easier  —  Starting today, all TV and radio stations must send records of political advertising buys to the FCC.  Until now, only 230 stations in the top 50 markets had to file the records online.  Starting today, more than 2,000 stations will turn over their records.
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
In Philadelphia, the Internet Archive is assembling a new way to monitor campaigns on TV
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, @raju, Politico and FishbowlNY
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Media execs discuss how to close gender gap in journalism leadership at National Press Club  —  It's time for women journalists to ‘banish bashfulness’ when it comes to pay  —  The next generation of leaders at The New York Times is “not going to have careers like mine,” …
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.
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 …
Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Potential Fox-Sky deal may help Murdoch scout for acquisitions at Sun Valley next week  —  Murdoch's ambitions may take center stage in Sun Valley  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch jets into Idaho's Sun Valley next week for the year's most exclusive tech and media industry gathering …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
George Monbiot / Guardian:
The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom  —  The principal threat to expression comes not from state regulation but from censorship by editors and proprietors  —  Three hundred years of press freedom are at risk, the newspapers cry.  The government's proposed press regulator, they warn, threatens their independence.
Discussion: @drbillyo_, @klockedthis and @emilybell
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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Stock Hits All-Time High on Upbeat Analyst Estimates  —  Netflix shares closed up 7.4% Tuesday to an all-time high of $473.10 after a Goldman Sachs analyst upgraded the stock, citing the company's long-term international growth prospects and its stepped-up investments in kids' programming.
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 …
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
 
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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
DirecTV Was In Talks With Competitor Prior to AT&T Deal
Discussion: Forbes
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS Makes Up to 20% More Ad Revenue Online Than TV per Viewer: Research Chief
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
New York Times shutting down India Ink, its first country specific blog
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
'I'm the one the Daily Mail warned you about' - Guardian launches T-shirt range mocking its adversaries
 Earlier Picks: 
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Young Turks, with 68M views/month, generates $400 in one week from YouTube's Fan Funding
Matthew Eltringham / College of Journalism feed:
BBC opens up its multi-lingual College of Journalism globally for free
Julian Chokkattu / TechCrunch:
US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons
Craig Silverman / Poynter.:
Truth Goggles launches as an annotation tool for journalists
Discussion: @jbenton and @billadairduke