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4:55 PM ET, August 6, 2014

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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
On earnings call, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes refuses to comment on Fox takeover bid  —  Bewkes Won't Comment On Fox Takeover Bid  —  CEO says strategy is working  —  Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said he would have little to say about Rupert Murdoch's attempt to take over the media conglomerate.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner beats Wall St expectations, posts quarterly profits of $850M
Discussion: The Wrap, CNNMoney.com and Re/code
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish swings to $213M Q2 profit, loses fewer subscribers, sees continued growth in Hopper  —  Dish Loses Fewer Subs, Boosts Financials in Second Quarter  —  The satellite TV giant, led by chairman Charlie Ergen, swung to a second-quarter profit  —  Dish Network on Wednesday reported improved second-quarter financials.
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Dish's Charlie Ergen: In the future, most TV viewing won't happen on TV  —  TV viewing is shifting form televisions to mobile devices, which is one reason why Dish plans to launch an internet TV service by the end of this year.  —  Dish still wants to launch its internet TV service by the end of this year …
Discussion: Variety
David Cuen / BBC:
BBC launches first social media-only news service - for Thailand  —  On 22 May, the Royal Thai Armed Forces staged a military coup and soon after international channels including BBC World News TV were taken off air temporarily.  It was clear then that, to fill the international news void …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and The Desk
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Huffington Post to launch Arabic-language website with editorial staff based in London  —  The Huffington Post is to launch an Arabic-language website with editorial staff based in London.  —  HuffPost Arabi “will be a first-of-its-kind online news destination for the 300+ million people in the Arab world …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Irish broadcaster RTÉ plans mobile journalism conference in March 2015  —  RTÉ announces mobile journalism conference for March 2015  —  MoJoConIrl will bring together key players in the field of mobile journalism to discuss technology and storytelling, and to share experiences …
Myles Udland / Business Insider:
Fox earns $0.42 per share on $8.42B revenue in Q4, beating estimates  —  Fox Earnings Beat Expectations  —  21st Century Fox reported fourth quarter adjusted EPS of $0.42 on revenue $8.42 billion.  —  Analysts were looking for adjusted earnings per share of $0.38 on revenue of $8 billion, according to data from Bloomberg.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Brady's new Philly site will be called Billy Penn  —  Jim Brady has settled on a name for the mobile-focused local-news platform he's in the process of launching in Philadelphia.  —  Originally billed as brother.ly, a reference to the City of Brotherly Love, Brady has changed the title to Billy Penn …
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Wikimedia slams ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, creates page for Wikipedia link removal notices  —  After publishing its first-ever transparency report, the Wikimedia Foundation has issued fresh criticism over the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling introduced by the European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) earlier this year.
Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, TechCrunch and Reuters
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Joe Miller / BBC:
Wikipedia link hidden by ‘right to be forgotten’
Discussion: Daily Dot and VentureBeat
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Hacked Off executive director Joan Smith: Guardian and Indy are better off with no regulator than with IPSO  —  Hacked Off's new executive director believes The Guardian and Independent are currently better off with no regulator than signing up for the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).
Arash Karami / Al-Monitor:
Detained Post journalist accused of spying in Iran media  —  The conservative Iranian media has broken its silence on the arrest of Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and published articles accusing him of spying and having connections to organizations in Washington …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Tones Down Labeling on Its Sponsored Posts  —  Lesser Visual Cues to Mark Native Ads  —  The New York Times has shrunk the labels that distinguish articles bought by advertisers from articles generated in its newsroom and made the language in the labels less explicit.
Axel Springer SE:
Axel Springer profits from strong growth of digital business models … In the second quarter of the current financial year, Axel Springer's operating results continued the dynamic growth trend of the first three months, thanks in large part to consistently strong growth in its digital activities.
Discussion: brecorder.com, RTTNews and Reuters
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
WaPo Removes Sections of Article After Source Admits to Fabrications  —  Entire sections of an article in the Washington Post's new longread vertical Storyline were removed Wednesday after one of the story's primary sources admitted to fabricating a number of the experiences related by author Jeff Guo.
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times announces new Newsroom Strategy Team members  —  A.G. Sulzberger, senior editor for strategy at the New York Times, sent this memo to colleagues this afternoon:
 
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Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
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