Mediagazer: New York Times shutting down India Ink, its first country specific blog (Chris O'Shea/FishbowlNY)

10:10 AM ET, July 1, 2014

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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

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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

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 …

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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.

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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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.

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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 …

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Carl Franzen / The Verge:

‘Reading Rainbow’ revival is the most popular Kickstarter project ever — The hit children's reading show gained big support from Seth MacFarlane, Veronica Mars, Pebble and OUYA — It's one for the record books. Reading Rainbow, the popular and critically acclaimed children's educational series …

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Twitter Scoops Up AdTech Firm Tap Commerce for Around $100 Million — Twitter is in the process of acquiring Tap Commerce, a New York-based mobile advertising technology firm, according to sources familiar with the situation. The deal is expected to be announced later on Monday.