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8:20 AM ET, July 30, 2014

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The NYT's new paywall products flounder — Early problems for the paper's new apps — The New York Times's expanded paywall offerings are off to a poor start, and its three-year run of higher circulation revenue may be at an end. — The Times's digital-subscription strategy …

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
New York Times adds 32,000 digital-only subscribers as profit falls

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Despite Circulation Gains, Profit Falls 21% at New York Times Co.

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Richard Ackland / Guardian:

WikiLeaks gag order: open justice is threatened by super-injuctions — Australian courts have increasingly been issuing suppression orders preventing the publication of legal proceedings - and an implicit dislike of the media is partly to blame — Last month, an Australian judge issued …

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WikiLeaks:
Australia bans reporting of international bank corruption case on ‘national security’ grounds

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Jason Deans / Guardian:

News of the World's former deputy editor and features editor to face charges over an alleged conspiracy to hack phones — Neil Wallis and Jules Stenson, the former deputy editor and features editor of the News of the World, are to be charged with an alleged conspiracy to hack phones.

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BBC:

Peers say ‘right to be forgotten’ principle unreasonable — Demands for search engines to remove personal data from the web to respect people's “right to be forgotten” are unreasonable, a group of peers says. — The Lords Home Affairs EU Sub-Committee also said it was wrong to give search engines …

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The Graduate Center, CUNY:

The Graduate Center Awarded Multimillion-Dollar Grant to Establish The CUNY Center for Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization — The Graduate Center Awarded Multimillion-Dollar Grant to Establish The CUNY Center for Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization

Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:

ITV Says It's Ignoring Takeover Talk as It Posts 46% Profit Jump — Chief Executive Adam Crozier Says It Is “Business as Usual” Amid the Liberty Global Talk — LONDON— ITV PLC, the U.K.'s No. 1 over-the-air commercial broadcaster, said Wednesday it is ignoring talk that it is a takeover candidate …

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Amazon.com:

Amazon proposes 35/35/30 split, says cheaper e-book prices offer more profit to all — Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption — This discussion has reached the maximum length permitted, and cannot accept new replies. Start a new discussion — See latest post

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter soars 34% after hours as monthly active users grow 24% year-over-year to 271M — Twitter Picked Up 16M Active Users In Q2 — In its most recent quarter, Twitter didn't just report stronger-than-expected financials. It also showed continued user growth, which has been an ongoing concern for the company.

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Leo Barraclough / Variety:

Sky Deutschland's Second Biggest Shareholder Rejects BSkyB's Offer — Rupert Murdoch's former son-in-law, hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, says, ‘No, thanks’ — LONDON — Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, who is the former son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch, has turned down an offer …

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Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Tories accused of picking politically partisan shortlist for new BBC Trust chairman — Interviews to find the successor to Lord Patten as chair of the BBC Trust begin on Thursday amid deep concerns as to how the process is being conducted by the Government.

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

BBC remains tight-lipped over recruitment process for 23 high-profile journalists - citing data protection in FOI rejection — The BBC has rejected a Freedom of Information request for more details about the recruitment of 23 high-profile journalists, citing data protection.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Contently Launches A Nonprofit Arm To Do Investigative Journalism — In the new era of digital media, everyone's a publisher — celebrities, nobodies, spy agencies, house plants and, especially, brands. Building “the plumbing” for brands that want to be part of this new era …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review