Mediagazer: The 60-second interview: Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal managing editor and Dow Jones editor-in-chief (Capital New York)

7:45 PM ET, July 8, 2014

Top News:

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

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian News & Media narrows loss to £30.6m, print income stable, digital revenues up 24%

Discussion: @psmith, Press Gazette, London Evening Standard, @johngapper, @stephentall and @ianwylie

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Latest News & Headlines, NetNewsCheck Latest, @esthernow, SPJ News and The Huffington Post

Capital New York:

The 60-second interview: Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal managing editor and Dow Jones editor-in-chief — CAPITAL: The Journal turns 125 today. Are you doing anything special to celebrate? — BAKER: We've come a long way since July 8th 1889, when the original Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlNY

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Wall Street Journal is celebrating its 125th anniversary while also looking ahead

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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.

Discussion: Poynter, Politico, @jbenton, @ceodonovan and @loriamontgomery

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?

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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.”

Discussion: ValueWalk, Seeking Alpha and Talking Biz News

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: @digiday and @okfleming

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.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Gigaom, Forbes, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, @voxday, @sherman_alexie, Wall Street Journal, Techdirt, The Verge, Mashable, Electronista, @carlzimmer, Engadget, Guardian and TIME

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.

Discussion: MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY and FishbowlDC

Jessica King / CNN:

Reporter's harrowing ordeal as hostage set to become movie — (CNN) — For 460 days, they held her captive. They beat her, sexually assaulted her, kept her locked in a pitch-black room with chains around her ankles. — And yet, Amanda Lindhout says she forgives her abductors.

Discussion: Poynter

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

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.

Discussion: The Verge, MediaPost, Rolling Stone, TechCrunch, Salon, CNET, New York Times and Engadget

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