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12:55 PM ET, July 30, 2013

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
New York Times elevates comments from below the line  —  As part of a series of experiments to make reaction more useful to readers, comments are placed alongside a story  —  The New York Times is trying something new with comments: placing key reactions alongside the story narrative.
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Thomson Reuters Twitter Account Is Hacked  —  The main Twitter account of news outlet Thomson Reuters was taken over Monday, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army group that has hacked other news organizations.  —  “Earlier today @thomsonreuters was hacked,” a spokesman for the news organization said in an email late Monday.
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Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg:
Reuters Profit Tops Estimates on Accounting, Legal Gains
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team  —  ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon.  “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Experiments With Streaming Deals  —  Amazon Streams ‘Under the Dome’; Netflix Has Rights to ‘Hostages’  —  By - AMOL SHARMA -  —  CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Monday the broadcaster is experimenting with new business models for serialized dramas like apocalyptic summer hit …
Discussion: New York Times and Variety
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable extend deal to Friday afternoon  —  CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is battling Time Warner Cable.  (Monty Brinton / Associated Press)  —  After a tense day of negotiations and a brief blackout, Time Warner Cable and CBS are giving themselves a little more time to come to terms on a new distribution deal.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast.  Next up: Plex and HBO Go?  —  Chromecast, the streaming video adapter introduced by Google last week, is quickly gaining support from a number of media platforms.  Case in point: Vimeo told us it wants to support Chromecast …
Sharyn Jackson / The Des Moines Register:
Whistle-blowers' ‘hero’ pushes for day in their honor  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has taken on legendary status among whistle-blowers — people who expose misconduct or waste in government agencies and often risk their careers to do so.  “Godfather,” “hero” and …
Discussion: UPI, @ase, Techdirt and @kgosztola
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Media, left out of the relationship  —  Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom.  —  Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen.  This merger, they all say …
Gordon MacMillan / Twitter Blog:
Guardian says Twitter surpassing other social media for breaking news traffic  —  Andrews Miller, Guardian News & Media CEO, says that Twitter is driving more referral traffic for key breaking news stories to The Guardian than other social media platforms.  —  Speaking at the recent …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film  —  CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned.  —  “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …
Scott Martin / USA Today:
Twitter hiring for possibility of IPO  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's IPO prospect, one of the industry's most widely watched, appears closer to reality.  The micro-blogging service has posted a job opening for a financial reporting manager.  The person would be responsible for filing …
BBC:
Google weighs 100 million takedowns  —  Google has received requests to remove more than 100 million links since January 2013 for web pages deemed to be in breach of copyright laws.  —  That is double the number it received for the whole of 2012 and a sign that publishers are stepping up their battle against internet piracy.
 
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian newspaper moves its UK, US and Australian websites to the new .com domain today
Discussion: Guardian and Poynter
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Dispute Blocks Hollywood's Share of Chinese Box Office
Discussion: Variety, The Verge and Deadline.com
David Carr / New York Times:
VCR's Past Is Guiding Television's Future
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Amazon Studios May Crowdsource Selection of Its Web TV Show Pilots
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning judge to release verdict on Tuesday in WikiLeaks trial
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT interview with Obama: No surveillance questions?
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
TMZ Vet Daniel Goldblatt Now at the Helm of Variety.com
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBC News Partnering With GlobalPost For Foreign Coverage