Mediagazer: New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix (Janko Roettgers/Gigaom)

3:30 AM ET, July 8, 2014

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How The Wall Street Journal is celebrating its 125th anniversary while also looking ahead — The Wall Street Journal marked its 75th anniversary on July 8, 1964 with a front-page story examining the paper's history and what the paper stood for. Though initially conceived as solely a business newspaper …

Discussion: Capital New York, @wsj, Wall Street Journal and @niemanlab

Taylor Swift / Wall Street Journal:

Piracy and streaming shrank album sales, but music retains value and fan relationships matter — For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story — The Singer-Songwriter Says Artists and Fans Will Still Form Deep Bonds, but They Will Do It in New Ways — Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?

Discussion: Forbes, Gawker, @jackieaugustus, @nathanchubbard, MSN Music, @karaem, Rolling Stone, Variety, Business Insider, Guardian, TechCrunch, The Wrap, The Huffington Post and Mashable

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Katie Stanton to Replace Exiting Twitter Media Chief Chloe Sladden (Exclusive) — Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the social media giant has found her replacement. — Katie Jacobs Stanton, previously vice president of international market development …

Discussion: @awallenstein, @karaswisher, @jeffjarvis, @raju, @mathewi, @alecjross, @karaswisher, Re/code and @chloes

Michael King / American Journalism Review:

Journalism Enrollments Fell Two Years in a Row. Is it the Start of a Downward Trend? — Total enrollment in the nation's journalism schools has dropped, research by a team at the University of Georgia shows, triggering a variety of responses from the schools and raising questions about the future of journalism education.

Discussion: @uosojc, @leehalltweets, @wccordell, @ryanchittum, @mattdpearce, @jonathanmattise, @wpjenna and The Newspaper Guild

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix — Slingshot, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ISP just added a new “global mode” to its internet plans that allows its customers to access video services …

Discussion: The Next Web, New Zealand Herald, CNET, Home Media Magazine and DSLreports

Brent Lang / Variety:

Sun Valley: Cable Consolidation, Murdoch and Digital Disruption Among Big Themes — Media and technology moguls are jetting to Sun Valley, Idaho this week for mountainside pressing of the flesh and potentially some deal-making. — The exclusive confab, sponsored by investment bank Allen & Co. …

Discussion: Reuters, Politico, WSB-TV, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Chris Welch / The Verge:

BBC told to stop wasting time on climate change deniers and skeptics of proven science — Two months ago, John Oliver delivered a bruising critique of the way TV networks handle science coverage. And now an independent progress report from within the BBC seems to agree with his message …

Discussion: Telegraph, Slate, Salon, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:

An Ex-Patcher Competes in Tim Armstrong's Town — Going entrepreneurial in community journalism is scary anywhere. But when you decide to do it where the mastermind of the publication where you used to work lives, that could be like parachuting into enemy territory with a Swiss Army knife and a crystal radio.

Discussion: @niemanlab and @pennyriordan1

David Folkenflik / NPR:

CBS Lost Appetite For Government Watchdog Stories, Attkisson Says … When the investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson left CBS this year, she did not do so quietly. She contends the network refused to run stories that might damage President Obama. — RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Discussion: @sharylattkisson, @davidfolkenflik, @joshtpm, @cmoraff, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Harley Brown / Billboard:

Microsoft Opens Xbox Music to App Makers — Xbox Music has become the latest music streaming services platform to open up its API to third-party app developers, according to a post on Microsoft's MSDN blog detailing API features like access to and management of metadata, affiliation between the platform …

Discussion: Music Week

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Beacon Reader's crowdfunding platform now lets supporters fund topics as well as journalists — There are many interesting experiments underway for funding journalism online, but Beacon Reader is one I pay attention to because it takes a collective approach — those who want to support …

Discussion: @dmitric and Techdirt

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

Bill Keller on His Criminal Justice Start-up the Marshall Project, Orange Is the New Black, and the Storm at the New York Times — The Paper of Record's former executive editor discusses his new start-up and the big ship he left behind. — After 30 years at the New York Times …