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6:30 PM ET, July 8, 2014

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Guardian U.S. to open West Coast office  —  The Guardian U.S. is planning an expansion of its editorial team that will include the addition a West Coast office, it announced Tuesday.  —  The announcement comes in the wake of a banner year for The Guardian's stateside outfit …
Discussion: @attackerman and @ggreenwald
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
N.Y.T. editor Dean Baquet's first digital initiative: adding editors  —  The New York Times is adding deputy-level editors assigned to increase the volume and quality of its digital product.  They'll sit in each of the paper's major editorial departments, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a staff memo obtained by Capital.
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?
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Seeking Alpha doesn't have to reveal the identity of a user who slammed a stock  —  Seeking Alpha is a site for people to write up and share their investing ideas — “a platform for investment research, with broad coverage of stocks, asset classes, ETFs and investment strategy.”
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Q&A with CNN's social news editor Samantha Barry on engagement, clickbait, and more  —  CNN's social news editor: Engagment doesn't have to mean clickbait  —  CNN recently named Samantha Barry as its new head of social news.  Starting in September, the Irish-born Barry will be in charge …
Discussion: @okfleming and @digiday
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Journalists Accuse White House Of Politically Driven Suppression of News  —  Point to public information office controls of interviews, access  —  Over three dozen journalist organizations including the Radio Television Digital News Association, National Press Foundation …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon offers some Hachette authors 100% of ebook sales while dispute is ongoing  —  Amazon Tries to Woo Authors in Hachette Dispute  —  Amazon, awash in negative publicity in its confrontation with Hachette over e-book terms, is seeking to break the standoff by appealing directly to the publisher's authors.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Website  —  Alexis Madrigal will be the new deputy editor of the TheAtlantic.com, the magazine announced today.  Mr. Madrigal has been with the magazine since 2010, most recently in the position of senior editor overseeing the technology channel.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's Mobile Ratings Are Coming — But You Probably Won't Notice Right Away  —  Execs at the media company say the adoption of tablets and mobile phones into TV measurement will start small, commensurate with comparability small adoption and the frequency of time-shifting.  —  “The Blacklist”
Discussion: The Wrap and TVbytheNumbers
Michael Malone / Multichannel News:
Gannett Closes on London Broadcasting Acquisition  —  Completes Acquisition of Six Texas Stations for $215 Million  —  Gannett has completed its acquisition of six Texas-based London Broadcasting stations for $215 million.  The stations are KCEN Waco-Temple-Bryan, KYTX Tyler-Longview …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck.com
David Weigel / Slate:
Daily Caller stories about Senator Bob Menendez may have been planted by Cuban intelligence  —  The Cubans, the Prostitutes, the Senator, and the Daily Caller  —  The competition was stiff, but there was no stronger/stranger headline yesterday than “CIA is said to link Cuba to plot to smear senator.”
Harley Brown / Billboard:
Music Vault Releases Treasure Trove of Archived Concert Footage to YouTube  —  Van Morrison in Belfast in 1979, one of the Music Vault's immense archive of concert videos.
 
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Israel Accused Of ‘Deliberately Targeting’ Journalists By Press Freedom Group
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Texas Monthly promotes Brian Sweany to Editor-in-Chief
Discussion: @hadas_gold
SA Mathieson / Online Journalism Blog:
Making digital journalism pay: doable. Making a living: difficult
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Participant Index Seeks to Determine Why One Film Spurs Activism, While Others Falter
AFP:
Iranian journalist Marzieh Rasouli sentenced to 2 years in prison and 50 lashes for anti-establishment propaganda
Discussion: New York Times, @marzie_r and euronews
 Earlier Picks: 
Harley Brown / Billboard:
Microsoft Opens Xbox Music to App Makers
Discussion: MSDN Blogs, Music Week and hypebot
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Wall Street Journal is celebrating its 125th anniversary while also looking ahead