Mediagazer: The Young Turks, with 68M views/month, generates $400 in one week from YouTube's Fan Funding (Benjamin Mullin/Poynter)

11:20 AM ET, July 1, 2014

Top News:

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: Gawker, Home Media Magazine and SocialTimes

Wall Street Journal:

ESPN And Univision Want Rivals to Stop Showing World Cup Goals … Soccer fans seek their fix of blistering goals and near misses not just on TV, but on social media services and their favorite sports sites, too. Now, World Cup rights-holders are trying to stop digital competitors …

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

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

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 and @charlesrotblut

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Discussion: @hermida, @bbccollege, @trushar, @acwils, @mscott, @bpgbfm, @smurray38, @marcsettle, @anna_lindsay and Online Journalism Blog

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Reporter Apologizes To Iraqi Journalists After ‘Bribe’ Tweets — NEW YORK — New York Times foreign correspondent Rod Nordland apologized to Iraqi journalists on Monday after claiming in a series of tweets this past weekend that an Iraqi army official had given cash payments to members of the press.

Discussion: @rodnordland, @rodnordland, @rodnordland and Washington Post