Mediagazer: Fired Pando writer David Sirota joins International Business Times to cover Wall St/politics (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

1:40 PM ET, July 15, 2014

Top News:

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Newspaper reporter makes ‘endangered jobs’ list — Travel agent. Meter reader. Newspaper reporter. — They're all among CareerCast's 2014 list of endangered jobs, with the hiring outlook for newspaper reporter positions expected to drop 13 percent by 2022, according to the company's forecast.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Business Insider, @pwoodreporter and The Huffington Post

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

NPR significantly weakens Ombudsman role, says job is not to “pass judgement” — NPR downgrades and disables its ombudsman — “NPR is far stronger than this short-sighted and half-assed decision suggests. It has nothing to fear from an empowered ombudsman.”

Discussion: @joeyerardi, @davidfolkenflik, @acarvin, @karoli, @jayrosen_nyu, @colmorrisdavis, @violetblue, @jeffjarvis, @barryeisler, @raju, @mdawriter, @sulliview and American Press Institute

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

With new Philly news site Brother.ly, Jim Brady aims to monetize “passions, not pageviews” — Jim Brady's Philly gamble: Third time's a charm? — Jim Brady's escapades in digital news have been fraught. — As executive editor of The Washington Post's website in the mid-aughts …

Discussion: @ckrewson, @jimbradysp, @jayrosen_nyu, @joepompeo and @bydanielvictor

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas detained in Texas, say reports — Jose Antonio Vargas detained in Texas — Journalist and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas has been detained in McAllen, Texas, Lara Drasin with Define American told Poynter in an email.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Politico, Latest News & Headlines, Gawker, Capital New York, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, @kristenhare, @digiphile, @mpwrites and New York Times

Greg Gilman / The Wrap:

NPR Senior VP Margaret Low Smith Joins The Atlantic as President of AtlanticLIVE — Margaret Low Smith has joined The Atlantic as vice president and president of its events practice, AtlanticLIVE, the news organization announced on Tuesday. — Smith, who has been senior vice president …

Discussion: Poynter, Folio and FishbowlNY

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin, where she'd come for the SXSW Interactive conference, she wasn't following any particular trail of clues.

Discussion: The New York Observer, @rohit_x_, @jguynn, @mat, @msquinn, @digiphile, @alexia, @carlquintanilla, @ftrain, @sarahnemerson, @monteiro, @thevanessag, @fmanjoo, @antderosa, @samir, @matt_levine, @kimseverson, @pkafka, @kevinroose, @jayrosen_nyu, @brooke, @mikeisaac and @katierosman

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Google has received 75,000 “right to be forgotten” requests, is receiving 1,000 more each day — Bing and Ask planning ‘right to be forgotten’ procedures as Google reveals it is receiving 1,000 take-down requests a day — Search engines Bing and Ask are working on …

Discussion: @rachcrane

Ted Johnson / Variety:

FCC Receives More Than 677,000 Comments on Net Neutrality Proposal — The FCC has collected more than a half million comments on its latest proposal to establish rules of the road for the Internet, with a deadline on Tuesday for weighing in on how or if the agency should adopt regulations …

Discussion: FCC.gov, The Wrap, Darren Herman and Multichannel News

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Jill Abramson to give first post-NYT interview to Katie Couric on Thursday — Jill Abramson to sit with Katie Couric — Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson will sit down with Yahoo's Katie Couric this Thursday for her first interview since her abrupt termination in May, a Yahoo spokesperson told POLITICO.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, @carlquintanilla, @brianstelter and @mlcalderone

William Neuman / New York Times:

Sale of Paper in Venezuela Raises Fears on Freedom — CARACAS, Venezuela — One of Venezuela's leading pro-opposition newspapers has been sold in a transaction shrouded in mystery, fueling growing concerns here over the independence of the news media. — The newspaper, El Universal …

Discussion: @martinxhodgson and @victordlamini

Guardian:

Guardian names Eamonn Store CEO of US operation — Guardian News & Media announces appointment of new CEO of Guardian's US operation — Guardian News & Media (GNM) has today announced the appointment of Eamonn Store as CEO of Guardian US, the New York-based, Pulitzer Prize winning US digital edition.

Discussion: @gnm_press

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

ProPublica sees $30,000 in new revenue from Data Store — Just five months after opening up its Data Store — which sells some of the big datasets its reporters produce for stories and projects — ProPublica says it's generated “well over” $30,000 in new revenue.

Discussion: The Texas Tribune Fellowships and @niemanlab