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7:20 PM ET, July 29, 2015

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 Top News: 
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Staff of Guardian US votes unanimously to unionize under the News Media Guild  —  Guardian US Votes Unanimously To Unionize  —  Labor organizing is sweeping through newsrooms.  So who's next?  —  NEW YORK - The staff of the Guardian US voted unanimously Wednesday to unionize under the News Media Guild …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN, Daily Mail, and National Geographic have staffers dedicated to creating Snapchat stories  —  Publishers are hiring Snapchat specialists  —  Snapchat's real benefits to publishers remain unproven, but some have seen enough potential upsides to hire teams of specialists to figure out content strategies on the platform.
Sage Lazzaro / The New York Observer:
NY Mag Lost Over 500,000 Page Views on Cosby Cover Story During DDoS Attack  —  The magazine did, however, find some positives in resorting to their social media safety net  —  The anonymous hacker behind the cyber attack that brought down New York magazine's website for nearly 12 hours …
Discussion: Guardian, Jezebel, E& and Rolling Stone
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at varied approaches to user experience research at The New York Times and ProPublica  —  Two out of two news organizations recommend user research  —  The phrase “user research” makes me think of Mad Men, with women sitting behind a one-way mirror trying on lipstick while men watch (and criticize their appearances).
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
CEO Joe Ripp pushes online video, native ads and big data in an effort to save Time Inc.  —  Clock Is Ticking for Time Inc.'s CEO  —  Joe Ripp pushes online video, ‘native’ ads and ‘big data’ to save the company Henry Luce built; ‘slow and steady death’  —  In April, Time Inc. Chief …
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of Malaysian news site Sarawak Report, says Malay government has hired “stalkers” to follow her  —  British journalist: I'm being followed in London by teams of stalkers  —  Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of a Malaysian news website …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Execs Who Left Glenn Beck's TheBlaze Launch Digital-Media Consulting Shop  —  Four executives who previously worked for conservative commentator Glenn Beck have nailed up their own digital-media consulting shingle with the launch of Red Seat Ventures.  —  The founding partners are Chris Balfe …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC Trust has cut expenses bill by almost two-thirds since 2007  —  Members of the corporation's governing body claimed just over £50,000 in a year, with chair Rona Fairhead spending nearly £1,000 on taxis  —  The BBC Trust has cut its expenses bill by almost two-thirds since …
Discussion: Prolific North
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Meirion Jones: ‘Everyone on right side of the Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC’  —  Three days after finishing work on Panorama documentary The Fake Sheikh Exposed, producer Meirion Jones was told his services were no longer required by the programme.
Discussion: Guardian and Daily Mail
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
BBC looks to make more long-form shows for iPlayer after success of Adam Curtis's documentary Bitter Lake  —  Curtis (above) said he made the film exclusively for the online platform because 'it isn't restrained by the rigid formats'  —  The BBC is looking to make more long-form programmes exclusively …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Financial Times built a handy dashboard that gives you a snapshot of the U.K. economy  —  Should you find yourself wondering the status of industrial production in the U.K., or the status of the housing market, or, for that matter, unemployment rate, the Financial Times has just the tool for you.
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
WSJ names Margaret de Streel as editor for new global print editions, previews paid news digest app, What's News, to be released later this summer
Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian:
Ex-Sun managing editor claims political pressure behind him leaving Ipso
Discussion: Press Gazette
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Music group blasts CBS for promoting illegal download sites
Discussion: @eriqgardner
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Hindi TV channel fined £25,000 over cancer cure claims on yoga show
Tim Healy / Independent.ie:
Judge clears use of ‘The Times Irish Edition’ by UK paper
Discussion: RTÉ, Press Gazette and Guardian
Tara George / MediaShift:
Operating with fewer resources, news startups are blurring the lines between business and editorial
Discussion: @msidealab
 Earlier Picks: 
Jonathan Soble / New York Times:
Japan's Nikkei vies for global clout with the $1.3B purchase of The Financial Times
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Washington Post:
The most famous television journalist in Pakistan lives like a fugitive
Chad Bray / New York Times:
McGraw Hill Financial Buys SNL Financial for $2.2 Billion
Discussion: Folio, Bloomberg Business and Reuters
Tyler Falk / Current.org:
NPR plans environmental reporting project with stations
Los Angeles Times:
Netflix seeks to double office space by moving to a 150K square foot place in Hollywood