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8:50 AM ET, July 30, 2015

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Months after a retracted UVA rape story that spurred lawsuits, Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana is leaving  —  Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart  —  Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article …
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 …
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Guardian News & Media reports 20% increase in digital revenues to £82.1M YoY, losses down to £19.1M  —  Guardian and Observer publisher reduces losses as digital revenues rise  —  Guardian News & Media reports digital revenues rose 20% from £68.3m to £82.1m in the year to the end of March
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
There's a Facebook group to help journalists figure out their plan B  —  Last May, Russ Kendall learned that another friend and journalist had been laid off.  Linda Epstein, McClatchy-Tribune Wire's senior photo editor for 15 years, would lose her job in July when the company shuttered its wire service.
Discussion: @poynter and @raju
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic, ad revenue, and new and smaller publishers  —  Study Of Spain's ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done  —  As you may recall, governments across Europe, generally at the behest …
Discussion: @tolles
Haitham El-Tabei / Agence France-Presse:
Egypt court postpones Al-Jazeera retrial verdict  —  Cairo (AFP) - An Egyptian court postponed Thursday its verdict in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood, in a case that has sparked a global outcry.
Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
News UK CMO Chris Duncan on turning a subscription into a relationship  —  Chris Duncan, chief marketing officer for News UK, will be appearing on a panel at TheMediaBriefing's Monetising Media conference which takes place from 21st - 23rd October 2015 in London.
Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
Art in America Sold to ARTnews Owner  —  Two of the most venerable American art publications will now be owned by the same company and will be merged into a single entity online.  —  Peter Brant, the contemporary art collector and publisher, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to sell Art in America …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Naritiv offers representation and access to brands for Snapchat's emerging stars  —  Like YouTube, Snapchat is getting content networks  —  If there's a social platform with hundreds of million of users, you can bet someone will try to build a business on top of it.
Discussion: @digiday
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Former ‘Top Gear’ Hosts to Launch New Auto Series for Amazon Prime  —  The controversial ex-hosts of the long-running British television show “Top Gear” are headed to Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Instant Video service to create a new automotive series, people familiar with the matter said.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Derek Jeter talks about The Players' Tribune, now with contributions from nearly 300 athletes and an average of 1.1M unique viewers/month for first half of 2015  —  Derek Jeter, The Aspiring Media Mogul (Who Dislikes Media), Reveals Next Big Swing  —  On a warm Tuesday evening in mid-July …
Discussion: Business Insider and FishbowlNY
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
New Breed of Digital Publishers Just Say No to Ad Tech … Today's new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech.  —  Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 …
Discussion: AdExchanger and Street Fight
 
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Stephen Witt / The Verge:
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Execs Who Left Glenn Beck's TheBlaze Launch Digital-Media Consulting Shop
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at varied approaches to user experience research at The New York Times and ProPublica
Discussion: @karenmcgrane
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
CEO Joe Ripp pushes online video, native ads and big data in an effort to save Time Inc.
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
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
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
BBC looks to make more long-form shows for iPlayer after success of Adam Curtis's documentary Bitter Lake
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Financial Times built a handy dashboard that gives you a snapshot of the U.K. economy
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC Trust has cut expenses bill by almost two-thirds since 2007
Discussion: Prolific North
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Meirion Jones: ‘Everyone on right side of the Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC’
Discussion: Guardian and Daily Mail
Sage Lazzaro / The New York Observer:
NY Mag Lost Over 500,000 Page Views on Cosby Cover Story During DDoS Attack
Discussion: Janis Ian, Guardian, Jezebel and E&