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5:25 PM ET, July 15, 2014

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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.
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.
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.”
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.
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
PBS Leads News and Documentary Emmy Nominees  —  PBS leads the way with 43 News and Documentary Emmy nominations.  CBS News follows close behind with 42.  Announced earlier today, the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented Tuesday, September 30 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.
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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hearst's Cosmo Bows Fitness Video-Subscription Service, Priced Higher Than Netflix  —  CosmoBody, first of publisher's planned Internet channels, offered for $9.95 per month  —  Are seductive abs really worth more than Netflix?  Hearst is betting that young female audiences will pay a premium …
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
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q2 earnings: $1.04B in revenue vs. estimated $1.08B, $0.37 EPS, $436M in display revenue  —  Yahoo Misses In Q2 With Revenue Of $1.04B, EPS Of $0.37  —  Today after the bell, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs …
Discussion: The Wrap and ZDNet
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
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Is Now in Talks With Simon & Schuster  —  Hachette is not the only book publisher facing down Amazon.com .  —  The country's largest bookseller is also in talks with Simon & Schuster, said Leslie Moonves, CEO of the publisher's parent CBS Corp. at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo now required to sell just 140M Alibaba shares in IPO, down from 208M shares  —  Billion-Dollar Bonus: Alibaba Allows Yahoo to Sell 68 Million Fewer Shares in IPO  —  As I reported might happen, Yahoo said it “requested and Alibaba Group agreed to an amendment to the share repurchase agreement …
 
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
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Jillian C. York:
Ronan Farrow's call to censor terrorists and make US firms arbiters of free speech is wrong
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
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