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9:15 AM ET, July 31, 2014

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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
As Gawker grows, one exec advocates an end to ‘petty feuds’  —  A decade-plus into its existence, Gawker Media in 2014 is a very different organization than Gawker circa its 2003 founding, when it entered the Manhattan media fray elbows out, aiming spitballs at the Condé Nast cafeteria.
Discussion: @jackshafer
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
NYT response to plagiarism claim acknowledges improper use of language, details from Wikipedia  —  Times Issues Editor's Note in Response to Plagiarism Charge  —  The New York Times issued an editors' note on Wednesday in response to allegations that a reporter in the culture department …
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Journal Communications of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps announce merger, spinning off newspapers  —  Journal, Scripps deal announced Newspaper firm to be based in Milwaukee; broadcast company in Cincinnati  —  Two storied media firms, Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps Co …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Sorting the Serious From the Silly, BuzzFeed Develops a Mobile App for Real News  —  Not Likely to Be Featured: ‘21 Office Printers That Are Going Through a Mid-Life Crisis’  —  Best Places to Work … BuzzFeed is known for publishing highly shareable lists and quizzes …
Discussion: USA Today, @flipprior and BBC
Ian Griggs / PRWeek:
IPSO appoints Matt Tee, former permanent secretary for government comms, as chief executive  —  Matt Tee appointed as new press regulator's first chief executive  —  The Independent Press Standards Organisation has appointed Matt Tee, the former permanent secretary for government comms, as its first chief executive.
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Sources at Vocative say their software, touted to mine the deep web for generating news stories, doesn't work as promised  —  Showtime for Vocativ  —  Vocativ, the news organization that promises to mine the “deep web” for stories of global interest that cannot be found using traditional reporting methods …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Two Palestinian journalists killed during Israeli attack on Gaza  —  Two Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza yesterday, taking the journalistic toll to eight since the Israeli bombardment began a month ago.  —  According to an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists …
Bloomberg:
AMC Networks in talks to acquire almost 50% of BBC America  —  AMC Networks Said to Discuss Acquiring Stake in BBC America  —  AMC Networks Inc. (AMCX), the cable network controlled by the Dolan family, is in talks to acquire about a 50 percent stake in BBC America, BBC Worldwide's U.S. channel …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
ABC Veteran Sara Just named PBS NewsHour executive producer, effective Sept. 2  —  An ABC Veteran Is Named ‘PBS NewsHour’ Executive Producer  —  Sara Just, the Washington deputy bureau chief for ABC News, has been named executive producer of “PBS NewsHour,” the first major change …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Lehar Maan / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable Q2 Earnings: 152K TV customers lost, 67K high-speed data subs gained, revenue up 3.2%  —  Weak demand for video services weighs on Time Warner Cable  —  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, lost more video subscribers in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter.
Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
Premium offerings for reader engagement look an awful lot like news literacy  —  Readers connect with journalists by paying for behind-the-scenes content  —  Last week, Slate published a piece [$] called “Skip the Commentary, Find the Reporting,” by its national correspondent, William Saletan …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery 2Q Profit Rises 26%, Boosted By International Networks  —  Discovery Communications said weaker results at its U.S. TV networks were offset by robust activity from its international TV holdings, which helped the company notch a 26% increase in net income for the second quarter.
David Holmes / PandoDaily:
Breaking news in the social age is a mess.  Can Grasswire help stop the spread of misinformation?  —  From Reddit's catastrophic witch hunt in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing to the deluge of fake images and reports during Hurricane Sandy, social media has turned every breaking news event into a playground of misinformation.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The Daily Dot goes long and slow with relaunch of The Kernel  —  Count The Daily Dot as the latest digital publisher getting into the “magazine” business — not just the moniker, but the weekly schedule.  —  The site is putting the final touches on the relaunch of The Kernel …
Discussion: @neilthackray
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Heads rolling at Beats as Apple eliminating redundant positions, Ian Rogers & Trent Reznor to stay on  —  As Apple's acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music nears completion this financial quarter, the Cupertino and Santa Monica, California-based companies have begun work …
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
BT's TV customer growth slows but broadband market share grows  —  Company's rate of net new TV subscribers has slowed to 40,000, the lowest rate for five quarters  —  BT has outperformed City forecasts thanks to strong demand for fibre broadband lines, but growth in its pay television business has slowed.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
German RTL Group to acquire 65% stake in digital video ad firm SpotXchange for $144M  —  European TV Giant RTL to Acquire Majority Stake in Video Ad Firm SpotXchange  —  The unit of German media giant Bertelsmann takes 65 percent in the marketplace for digital video ads for $144 million plus possible additional payouts.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News Corp considers app-based news service to attract ‘millennials’  —  News Corp is working on an app-based news service to blend original reporting with repurposed content from its many outlets, reports the Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the situation.
Discussion: Financial Times
Fiona Lowenstein / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Latin America, the money may be in the media startups  —  In Latin America, the money may be in the media startups  —  When the news blows up in Mexico City, Dulce Ramos is on the case.  She is editor in chief of Animal Politico, a digital media startup that began as a Twitter account.
Discussion: Variety
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was ‘Too Fast for the Truth’  —  Perusing The New York Times archives a few days ago, I stumbled upon a delightful news nugget from 1858 about the “benefits and evils” of the transatlantic telegraph—delightful, because it reads like it could have been written today …
Discussion: @neilwrites and @alimanzano
E.J. Dickson / Daily Dot:
Discussion: @hmason, Re/code and The Verge
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Algorithm predicts US Supreme Court decisions 70% of time  —  Supreme Court fantasy league to compete against computer model in upcoming term.  —  A legal scholar says he and colleagues have developed an algorithm that can predict, with 70 percent accuracy, whether the US Supreme Court …
Discussion: @sarahcnyt
Ben Mook / Current.org:
NPR Labs to end run as stand-alone unit after losing consulting work  —  NPR will integrate NPR Labs into its general budget and tighten its focus on public radio after almost five years of running the division as self-sustaining.  —  Under the restructuring, NPR Labs will transition …
Discussion: @currentpubmedia
 
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