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10:40 AM ET, July 1, 2015

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
In Q&A, Zuckerberg emphasizes load speed of Instant Articles, predicts more news video, mentions need for small bits of news in fast, frequent pieces  —  Mark Zuckerberg has thoughts on the future of news on Facebook  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a cue from Reddit's Ask Me Anything …
Michael Rondon / Folio:
MediaFinder report: in first half of 2015, 60 magazine titles were launched and 23 closed  —  Magazine Industry Growth Slows  —  While first-half magazine launches outpaced title shutdowns for the sixth year in a row, the bottom line isn't great: net growth is dwindling.  —  First, the good news.
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
New round of BBC job cuts expected as declining license fee revenue creates budget shortfall of £150m  —  BBC aims to become ‘leaner and simpler’ with new round of job cuts  —  Drop in the number of licence fee payers leaves broadcaster with a £150m hole in its finances
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Departing CEO Dick Costolo says Twitter has contributed to global access to information, calls regulation a threat to free speech, especially in Europe  —  Next Twitter boss faces complex challenges, says departing Dick Costolo  —  In interview before his last day in job …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN Politics made traffic gains by hiring print reporters, publishing online first, and repackaging for broadcast  —  How CNN took a startup approach to politics  —  CNN gets its share of flak from media elites, but it has been on something of an innovation tear lately, taking a bit of inspiration from an unlikely source: print.
Discussion: @nowthised
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Greg Barber, director of digital news projects at The Washington Post and head of strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project  —  ‘Ego is a liability in the newsroom’ - Q&A with Greg Barber  —  Curiosity, flexibility, tenacity - three things the director of digital news projects …
Discussion: allmediascotland
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Donald Trump Files $500 Million Lawsuit Against Univision Over Miss USA Contract  —  Donald Trump has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision Communications following the company's move to scrap its planned telecast of the July 12 Miss USA beauty pageant as a result of Trump's disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants.
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Apple's mistake was hooking up with the book-publishing cartel  —  Apple may be trying to keep the spotlight on its latest foray into the streaming-music business, but it is also still trying to clean up the mess caused by its ham-handed entry into an earlier market: book publishing.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
What's the view from Europe on where news is headed?  Check out these videos from Newsgeist  —  Newsgeist — formerly known, just as idiosyncratically, as Newsfoo — is an annual-or-so unconference/gathering of journalists, technologists, media execs, and other future-of-news types for discussion, mingling, and pretty good food.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Evening Standard remains in the black for third consecutive year  —  London free sheet newspaper reports profit of £1.4m in 2014  —  The London Evening Standard remained in the black for the third consecutive year, reporting a profit of £1.4m in 2014.
Discussion: campaignlive.co.uk
Agence France-Presse:
French daily Le Monde elects new director  —  Paris (AFP) - Jerome Fenoglio, who has spent nearly 25 years at Le Monde, was Tuesday elected director of the respected French daily which has been hit by management problems.  —  The 49-year-old Fenoglio, currently second-in-command at Le Monde …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World's former deputy editor Neil Wallis cleared by jury on charges of overseeing phone hacking  —  Neil Wallis found not guilty of masterminding NoW phone hacking  —  Jury clears News of the World's former deputy editor of conspiring to illegally intercept voicemail messages after three-week trial at Old Bailey
Discussion: @neilwallis1 and BBC
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Apple's Beats 1 Radio includes short ads and bleeps out objectionable words or whole lines  —  Surprises From The First Few Hours Of Beats 1 Radio  — There Are Ads - Apple never mentioned this and you'd be surprised considering how rich it is, but occasionally little promotional messages like …
Discussion: SlashGear, The Loop, Fortune and Forbes
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV's Web-Based Streaming Service Experienced Third Major Outage On Monday
Michael Sebastian / Ad Age:
Huffington Post's lack of profit with $146M in revenue and 200M unique visitors/month should worry other publishers
Valerio Bassan / Journalism.co.uk:
To expand immigration coverage, Italy's Migranti project uses crowdsourcing and Europe's The Migrants Files shares datasets
Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
AT&T, DirecTV extend merger end date ... again
Discussion: Reuters and Multichannel News
 Earlier Picks: 
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
BBC political chief Sue Inglish leaves corporation after leading coverage of three general elections
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg Pursuits names Ali Salama as new publisher
Discussion: Poynter, Politico and FishbowlNY
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others
 
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