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1:40 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 …
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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?
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 …
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.
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: MSDN Blogs and Music Week
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. …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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:
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
‘Impressive’ hyperlocal news sites are campaigning and investigating  —  Survey finds much to appreciate in community journalism  —  A new survey of hyperlocal online news sites reveals that many of them have been responsible for investigative and campaigning journalism.
Discussion: @daveharte
 
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Beacon Reader's crowdfunding platform now lets supporters fund topics as well as journalists
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Spurred by Aereo ruling, Fox argues in court that Dish Anywhere hurts ratings measurement
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Internal tensions at Jezebel after deputy editor Dodai Stewart passed over for top job
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Egyptian president says he wished the Al Jazeera journalists were never put on trial
Alexander Eule / Barron's Online:
Amid TV consolidation, Dish Network looks like odd man out, but spectrum could raise its value
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