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5:25 PM ET, July 10, 2014

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Pew Research Journalism Project:
America's Shifting Statehouse Press  —  Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters?  —  Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform the public about the actions and issues of state government, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Digital Outlets Help Fill Statehouse Ranks As Newspapers Retrench  —  NEW YORK — The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news outlet launched in 2009, now boasts the largest statehouse bureau in the Lone Star State at 15 full-time staffers.  —  Capital New York, a four-year-old site that expanded …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC should encrypt iPlayer for licence fee payers, says Channel 4 boss  —  Lord Burns says change would be first step towards an alternative way of funding the corporation  —  Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns has said the BBC should encrypt the iPlayer for licence fee payers …
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Tony Hall / Guardian:
Tony Halls BBC compete or compare speech - full text
Discussion: Variety
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Tribune Digital Ventures Acquires Indian Electronic Program Guide Provider What's On  —  Tribune Digital Ventures has acquired electronic program guide provider What's On to help it expand in developing markets like India and the Middle East.  The $27 million acquisition will also help Tribune bring …
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing says it can carry more debt after spinoff
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
National Enquirer publisher gets $515M buyout offer  —  American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, is getting bailed out by its creditors in a deal that values the company at about $515 million.  —  The cash-strapped publisher, led by CEO David Pecker, announced the bailout …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
The premium Emmys: Pay-TV services dominate nominations  —  If you want to watch all of this year's primetime Emmy nominees, be prepared to pay up.  —  The list is a sign of the shifting times in the TV business.  Many of the buzziest shows garnering nominations are not available to households that have a simple basic cable package.
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
BBC takes on Thailand dictatorship with a ‘pop-up’ Thai service  —  Exclusive: After years of criticism over the retreat from foreign language services, the BBC World Service is to tackle the censorship regime imposed by the Thai military with a news service distributed on social media
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy  —  The Dallas Morning News dismantles its paywall in favor of a bisected reader experience  —  In yesterday's paper, The Dallas Morning News announced it was ending its experiment with a “premium” site.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Tweet Cheat: How Rusty Foster's Newsletter Became a New York Media Obsession  —  Rusty Foster.  —  Rusty Foster's daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, has been called “the high school cafeteria of New York media,” an apt description for a circle that sometimes feels mired in adolescence.
Discussion: @kbsmoke, @perlberg and @profjeffjarvis
Alberto Cairo / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Data journalism needs to up its own standards  —  Did you know that wearing a helmet when riding a bike may be bad for you?  Or that it's possible to infer the rise of kidnappings in Nigeria from news reports?  Or that we can predict the year when a majority of Americans will reject the death penalty (hint: 2044)?
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
There's “no congestion,” Verizon says, despite continued Netflix problems  —  Unlike Comcast, Verizon is unable to quickly set up network connections to Netflix.  —  It's been 10 weeks since Verizon and Netflix struck a deal in which Netflix will pay the ISP for a direct connection to its network.
Kiki Zhao / New York Times:
Chinese Journalists Warned Not to Work With Foreign Media  —  The Chinese government, which already maintains tight restrictions on the country's media, has issued new warnings to local journalists not to cooperate with foreign news agencies.  —  The State Administration of Press, Publication …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge  —  The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator.  The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.”  —  The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry
Discussion: FishbowlNY and SocialTimes
WAN-IFRA:
Jay Rosen to journalists and editors: ‘Facebook has all the power.  You have almost none’  —  Amid growing calls for US and UK regulators to launch formal investigations into Facebook's disturbing mood manipulation research, leading US media scholar Jay Rosen has a reminder for journalists …
Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote:
NBC becomes first broadcast network to offer exclusive content on SoundCloud with ‘Last Comic Standing’  —  SoundCloud has changed the way we experience sounds and music on the web.  The platform which stands out as one of the top audio streaming destinations is becoming increasingly important to TV …
Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:
bop.fm, which lets you share playlists that work with multiple music services, raises $2M  —  Bop.fm is a remote control for your music apps, and it's now $2M richer  —  I've recently been arguing with a couple of colleagues over which music streaming service to use for our shared work playlists …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple Unveils Enhanced iTunes ‘Extras’ for Apple TV, as Studios Push Digital Movie Sales
Julie Lasson Fromowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Long all-volunteer, Guernica Mag looks toward paying its contributors
Marie Gilot / Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation grants three public media outlets $750,000 to explore post-broadcast future
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
National newspaper industry working on new system of audience measurement
Discussion: MediaTel and The Drum
Deutsche Welle:
Myanmar journalist slapped with 10 years for revealing chemical weapons factory
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BBC:
Government adverts shown before extremist online videos
Discussion: The Drum and Gigaom
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
For Those in the Digital Dark, Enlightenment Is Borrowed From the Library
Discussion: @mnylc and @shanakimball
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Deal at Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper may avert strike
Discussion: Canadian Press
Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat:
PubNative launches its attempt to one-up the native-ad template
Discussion: Adotas and Pocket Gamer.biz
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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