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2:35 PM ET, July 15, 2014

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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.”
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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.
 
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