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8:50 PM ET, July 15, 2014

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Cosmopolitan:
Jill Abramson: “I'm Not Ashamed of Getting Fired”  —  When Jill Abramson was appointed the first female executive editor of The New York Times, it was a big deal.  When she was fired only two and a half years into the gig for her “brusque management style,” it was an even bigger deal, making headlines across the globe.
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC extends deadline for user comments on net neutrality  —  Systems overwhelmed by surge in submissions protesting against plan to allow cable companies to open up ‘fast lanes’  —  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was forced to extend the deadline for comments over its controversial plans …
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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 …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:   Yahoo now required to sell just 140M Alibaba shares in IPO, down from 208M shares
Los Angeles Times:
Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas released after being detained in Texas  —  Activist released in Texas, bringing new light to immigration issues  —  Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration rights activist who publicly announced …
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
CBS Chief Les Moonves on New Aereo Deal: 'We're Willing to Talk to Them'  —  CBS chief Les Moonves slammed Aereo on Tuesday after the online TV service's Supreme Court defeat, but said “we're willing to talk to them” about doing a paid content deal.  —  Aereo suspended its service in the wake …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Reuters and Digital Book World
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 …
 
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Geoffrey King / Mediashift:
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Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:
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Discussion: Folio and @vbinsight
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Google has received 75,000 “right to be forgotten” requests, is receiving 1,000 more each day
Discussion: @rachcrane
William Neuman / New York Times:
Sale of Paper in Venezuela Raises Fears on Freedom
Discussion: @martinxhodgson and @victordlamini
Lulu Yilun Chen / Businessweek:
Alibaba Joins Lions Gate For Video Service in China
Michael White / Pacific Standard:
Is Social Media Saving Science?
Discussion: @mathewi