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7:15 PM ET, July 1, 2015

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Harvard Business Review hopes to grow subscriptions by offering new products at a higher price of of $109/year  —  Added value: How Harvard Business Review thinks it can add subscribers while getting more expensive  —  Harvard Business Review is trying to walk a fine line …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Scribd found that paying publishers based on how much readers read is too expensive in genres like romance  —  What Scribd's growing pains mean for the future of digital content subscription models  —  Netflix earned more than $5 billion in 2014.  No wonder companies want to be …
Discussion: @ylichterman
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN Politics made traffic gains by hiring print reporters, publishing online first, and repackaging for broadcast  —  How CNN took a startup approach to politics  —  CNN gets its share of flak from media elites, but it has been on something of an innovation tear lately, taking a bit of inspiration from an unlikely source: print.
Discussion: @nowthised
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Press can't see Hulk Hogan sex tape at trial, judge orders  —  Hulk Hogan is used to performing for a crowd.  In his decades-long career as a professional wrestler, his matches drew thousands of spectators.  But thanks to a ruling from a Florida judge, the raciest part of his latest contest will receive less public scrutiny.
Discussion: Re/code and The Intercept
Michael Rondon / Folio:
MediaFinder report: in first half of 2015, 60 magazine titles were launched and 23 closed  —  Magazine Industry Growth Slows  —  While first-half magazine launches outpaced title shutdowns for the sixth year in a row, the bottom line isn't great: net growth is dwindling.  —  First, the good news.
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
New round of BBC job cuts expected as declining license fee revenue creates budget shortfall of £150m  —  BBC aims to become ‘leaner and simpler’ with new round of job cuts  —  Drop in the number of licence fee payers leaves broadcaster with a £150m hole in its finances
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
CBS and AT&T reach carriage deal to keep CBS local stations, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, and CBS Sports Network on U-Verse  —  CBS, AT&T Reach New Distribution Deal  —  Both sides negotiate through the night to avoid a blackout  —  CBS Corp. and AT&T 's U-Verse have reached …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
What's the view from Europe on where news is headed?  Check out these videos from Newsgeist  —  Newsgeist — formerly known, just as idiosyncratically, as Newsfoo — is an annual-or-so unconference/gathering of journalists, technologists, media execs, and other future-of-news types for discussion, mingling, and pretty good food.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Greg Barber, director of digital news projects at The Washington Post and head of strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project  —  ‘Ego is a liability in the newsroom’ - Q&A with Greg Barber  —  Curiosity, flexibility, tenacity - three things the director of digital news projects …
Discussion: allmediascotland
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pluto TV, An Online Video Service Targeting Cord Cutters, Will Soon Stream Hulu  —  Up-and-coming video streaming service aimed at cord cutters, Pluto.TV, will now be distributing Hulu's free content, thanks to a new distribution agreement between the two companies.
Discussion: Variety, VideoInk and Engadget
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Evening Standard remains in the black for third consecutive year
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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