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12:30 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 …
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
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: Street Fight and AdExchanger
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 …
Stephen Witt / The Verge:
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services  —  Why Grooveshark failed  —  Sometime in early 2006, Josh Greenberg, a freshman at the University of Florida, began attending meetings at a school club for budding business types.
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).
Discussion: @karenmcgrane
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Editor Ken Kurson defends New York Observer's careful approach to covering Trump, the publisher's father-in-law  —  When Donald Trump Is the Father-In-Law of Your Publisher  —  An exchange with a reporter reveals why the Observer has been careful in its coverage of a presidential candidate
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
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
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.
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 …
 
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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
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
 Earlier Picks: 
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
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