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12:40 PM ET, August 1, 2014

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Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
Vivendi Sells Its 13% Beats Stake to Apple for $404 Million  —  Vivendi SA (VIV) sold its stake in Beats Electronics LLC to Apple Inc. (AAPL) for $404 million as part of the iPhone maker's takeover of the headphone company.  —  The stake was about 13 percent, Paris-based Vivendi said today …
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Don Reisinger / CNET:
Apple closes $3B Beats deal, welcomes the company ‘to the family’  —  Apple says that it will work with the Beats team to “elevate” the experience already created by Beats products.  —  Apple has officially closed its $3 billion deal to acquire Beats.  —  The iPhone maker posted a page …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Facebook and fewer stories behind rise in web traffic, says Telegraph chief  —  Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Jason Seiken says a change in focus helped drive up the paper's website traffic in June  —  The Telegraph website's 20% traffic boost in June has been attributed …
Charlie Beckett / Polis:
Should news get personal?  Emotion and objectivity in the face of suffering  —  Should journalists covering suffering allow their own emotions to become part of the story?  —  [see comments and selected tweets at the bottom of this article for reaction]  —  Jon Snow's heartfelt monologue …
BBC:
Russia enacts ‘draconian’ law for bloggers and online media  —  A new law imposing restrictions on users of social media has come into effect in Russia.  —  It means bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers must register with the mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and conform …
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Google Details Problems With Handling Right to Be Forgotten Requests  —  LONDON - Google says complying with Europe's so-called right to be forgotten ruling is getting complicated.  —  In a lengthy response to questions from the region's data regulators, the search giant …
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
The rewriting of an AP tweet about Gaza shows the costs of avoiding perception of bias  —  The production of innocence: tale of two headlines over Gaza  —  “Members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel,” the AP said on Twitter.  Then the AP decided that it could not say that.  Why?
Bloomberg:
Aereo Asks Court to Stop ‘Bleeding,’ Allow New Life  —  Aereo Inc. asked a judge to grant it new life, allowing it to operate like a cable-TV service and stop the “bleeding” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the streaming video company violated broadcasters' copyrights.
Discussion: Businessweek and @joshuabrustein, Thanks:@alexbarinka
Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Father of Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste says family is focusing on appeal of verdict  —  DAD OF JAILED REPORTER: SON A VICTIM OF INJUSTICE  —  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The father of an Australian Al-Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt said Thursday that he respects the integrity …
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Tanya Talaga / Toronto Star:   Jailed Al Jazeera journalist Fahmy still weighing appeal; has no faith in Egypt's courts
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Bonnier to Move U.S. Titles Off Its Own Platform  —  Mag+ shifting focus to corporate applications.  —  Bonnier Corp. is moving its digital editions off of the Mag+ platform—a platform it helped create and one that's owned by its Swiss-based parent company, Bonnier AB—and onto Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite system.
Shelli Weinstein / Variety:
Scout Media Names Ross Levinsohn Executive Chairman, Announces Full Exec Team  —  Multi-channel, male-focused media network Scout has appointed Ross Levinsohn to executive chairman, announced CEO James Heckman on Thursday.  Levinsohn will lead the company's strategic expansion …
Discussion: MediaWire Daily
Reuters:
SEC spent months searching for Reuters sources about JP Morgan settlement in London Whale case  —  SEC launched extensive probe to identify sources in Reuters stories  —  (Reuters) - A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission watchdog conducted an extensive, months-long investigation to find …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Judy McGrath, Former CEO of MTV Networks, Joins Amazon's Board
Discussion: @peterlauria3 and GeekWire
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Chinese Web Giant Tencent Moves Into Online Games, Novels
Han Bingbin / CHINAdaily:
Quotas may limit more foreign TV shows online
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Meredith targeting ‘individual’ acquisitions
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David Meyer / Gigaom:
Facebook's Internet.org unveils free, limited web access — such opportunity, but at what cost?
Karishma Mehrotra / Wall Street Journal:
College radio stations are leasing frequencies and playing less indie and experimental music
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Scripps Plus Journal: Regional Strength, Going Deeper in Markets
Discussion: Poynter and Poynter
Alex Hayes / mUmBRELLA:
Huffington Post to be Australian ‘market leader’ in three to five years says general manager
Discussion: @aerohaveno