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7:20 AM ET, July 13, 2014

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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Role of Sports Illustrated in LeBron James's Announcement Raises Journalistic Questions  —  By being the first to report on Friday that LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sports Illustrated beat a journalistic pack that included 15 on-air people at ESPN.
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Craig Calcaterra:
Sports Illustrated gets modern media; gets criticized for it  —  The LeBron James news dominated sports media for the past several days.  Everyone — even people who don't much care about basketball — was interested in it at least on some level.  Even if it was only to joke, snark and/or join in some fun collective happening.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until ‘this morning’
David Carr / New York Times:
Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+  —  Hulu to Stream ‘South Park’ as More Players Jostle for Online Rights  —  While the media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, jockeyed for parking spaces for their jets …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted  —  Twitter has new analytics available that let anyone understand exactly how viewed their tweets are.  Those stats also clear something else up.  Just like Facebook, what you share on Twitter isn't seen by all your followers.
Discussion: @dtunkelang
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The Tennessean:
John Seigenthaler, longtime Tennessean editor, dies at 86  —  John Seigenthaler, a legendary Tennessee journalist, intimate confidant to two near-presidents and fierce advocate for racial equality, died Friday.  He was 86.  Mr. Seigenthaler passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family.
Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Gawker's so-far successful experiment in making office chats public  —  Last Monday, Gawker editor Max Read announced that the bloggers and editors on his team were spending too much time chatting on Campfire, one of several group-chat apps that have become popular in newsrooms.
Discussion: PandoDaily
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Upworthy, Joining a Refrain, Says Paid Posts Get More Views Than Editorial  —  Viral Site Also Names Media Exec Kim Kelleher to Board  —  Creativity Top 5  —  Three months ago the first major brand advertising campaign appeared on Upworthy, a mix of paid and curated posts promoting Unilever's Project Sunlight initiative.
Rebecca Ford / Hollywood Reporter:
Dan Rather ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About ‘Rathergate’ Biopic  —  Robert Redford will play the famed news anchor in “Truth.”  —  “Rathergate,” the scandal that erupted in September of 2004 after Dan Rather reported that George W. Bush had received special treatment while serving …
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.
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten  —  Search engine formalising procedure to deal with more than 70,000 requests for links to be removed after EU ruling fallout  —  Google launched a dedicated page on Friday to publicise its advisory council on the right …
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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Washington Post writer responds to criticism of analysis of 160K conversations intercepted by the NSA, sheds light on data set, analysis methods  —  How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story  —  The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights
 
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