Mediagazer: Dean Baquet's first digital initiative: adding editors (Jeremy Barr/Capital New York)

11:35 AM ET, July 9, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

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Arif Durrani / Campaign:

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Edward Wong / New York Times:

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Megha Rajagopalan / Reuters:
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

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.

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Grace Huang / Bloomberg:

Disney Halts On-Demand Movie Sales on ITunes in Japan — Walt Disney Co. (DIS), the world's largest entertainment company, halted on-demand sales of new movies through Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s online store in Japan after the two companies couldn't reach a final agreement on sales.

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Jack Shafer:

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Bharatha Mallawarachi / Associated Press:

Sri Lanka bans NGO news conferences, releases — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has banned civil activist groups from holding news conferences and training for journalists, with the organizations rejecting the move as unconstitutional. J.C. Weliamuna, a lawyer from the Civil Society Collective …

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Adam Sherwin / The Independent:

Google tells popular music website to censor album cover art in ‘sexually explicit content’ ban — A leading music website has censored album covers by artists including Sigur Rós and Lambchop after they fell foul of a Google ban on “sexually explicit content”.

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Matt Medved / Billboard:

The Monstercat Label Model: From YouTube Channel to One Million Record Sales — Monstercat CEO and founder Mike Darlington never intended to make a record label. — “People don't need record labels anymore,” he says. “Artists can do everything on their own.

Discussion: @eric_mmi

Philip Pullella / Reuters:

Former BBC head Chris Patten to lead committee advising Pope Francis on media strategy — Britain's Patten to lead Vatican communications re-vamp drive — (Reuters) - Former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten will head a committee to advise Pope Francis on how to re-vamp and modernize …