Mediagazer: Robots Are Invading the News Business, and It's Great for Journalists (Kevin Roose/New York Magazine)

7:40 AM ET, July 12, 2014

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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

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James Ball / Guardian:
Google admits to errors over Guardian ‘right to be forgotten’ link deletions

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David Drummond / Guardian:
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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Robots Are Invading the News Business, and It's Great for Journalists — Don't fear the revolution. — Earlier this week, one of my business-beat colleagues got assigned to recap the quarterly earnings of Alcoa, the giant metals company, for the Associated Press.

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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and 3-5% stakes — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd., in exchange for an agreement …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter's New Analytics Tell Advertisers And Publishers How Many People Actually Saw Their Tweets — If you're looking for more details about how all of your tweets are doing, Twitter today released a new analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter Card publishers, and verified users.

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Twitter Shuts World Cup Goal Account ReplayLastGoal After FIFA Letter — Good news for Americans who don't have pay TV and want to watch the World Cup final on Sunday: Germany-Argentina will air on ABC, so you can watch the game on any set connected to an antenna.

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
World Cup shows Twitter's unique strength: dominance in real-time sports news and commentary

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian: In Egypt, watching the World Cup means choosing from two politically controversial networks

Jack Gillum / Associated Press:

US knew in advance of British plans to destroy Guardian hard drives containing NSA documents — US given heads up about newspaper data destruction — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard …

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter — Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places …

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