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11:45 AM ET, July 7, 2015

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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC considering move to make news channel online only  —  Corporation understood to be looking into future of £66.2m TV channel and how live news is covered, with final decision yet to be made  —  The BBC is considering making its news channel online only following a similar cost-cutting move …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
National newspapers back Culture Secretary John Whittingdale as he says the BBC's online presence will be scrutinised in upcoming charter review  —  BBC news website under attack ahead of charter review as newspapers call for ‘behemoth’ to be ‘tamed’  —  The BBC's online news presence …
Discussion: Guardian, @aahaworth and Telegraph
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni joins LA Times as assistant managing editor for politics  —  Los Angeles Times nabs Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni  —  The Los Angeles Times has hired Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni to serve as Assistant Managing Editor …
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
German Media Titans ProSiebenSat.1, Axel Springer in $16 Billion Merger Talks  —  German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 and publishing giant Axel Springer are in merger talks that could lead to the creation of a business worth around Euros 14.4 billion ($15.9 billion).
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Video chief Rebecca Howard to leave New York Times  —  Rebecca Howard, general manager of video at The New York Times, is set to leave the company later this month after less than two-and-a-half years on the job, sources familiar with the matter told Capital.
Discussion: @joepompeo and @tmcgev
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Whipclip Raises Over $40 Million For Its TV Show And Music Video Clipping App  —  Whipclip, the makers of a mobile application that lets you quickly - and legally - share clips from favorite TV shows and music videos, has closed on $40 million-plus in Series C financing, the company is announcing today.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Variety and Re/code
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is publishing on WhatsApp for the first time, covering Pope Francis  —  That unique confluence of New York Times readers, pope watchers, and WhatsApp users must have been excited on a recent June morning when The New York Times announced it would be experimenting …
Discussion: @giner and Business Insider
Hollywood Reporter:
Ex-New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter to launch weekly interview show on SiriusXM  —  Bill Carter to Launch SiriusXM Interview Show  —  Bill Carter will launch a weekly interview program on SiriusXM.  Launching later this summer, The Bill Carter Interview will be broadcast Mondays …
Ellen Pao / Redddit:
Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools  —  We apologize  —  We screwed up.  Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years.  We haven't communicated well …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube up to 240bn monthly video views, with top 100 MCNs worth $10bn  —  Report claims that more than 22 multi-channel networks reaching 1bn monthly views, as top star PewDiePie's earnings are revealed  —  The 100 largest multi-channel networks (MCNs) on YouTube may have a collective valuation …
Discussion: @ampereanalysis and Engadget
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
Bloomberg's 38K word story on code has generated more traffic than any other article since the site's launch  —  Bloomberg's ‘What Is Code’ Feature Was A Massive Hit — Here's Why  —  The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook and YouTube both offer 55/45 revenue split to content creators, but YouTube splits revenue with one creator, Facebook with many  —  How Facebook's New Video Business Stacks Up Against YouTube  —  Facebook is stepping on YouTube's turf.  —  On Wednesday the social network announced …
 
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Newseum study: just 24% of Americans believe the news media tries to report on news without bias
Discussion: @usatodayhealth
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Comedy Central Channel Launches on Roku
Discussion: Multichannel News and Engadget
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Sarah Palin Abandons Subscription-Based Online Video Channel
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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

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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