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9:00 AM ET, July 14, 2015

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 Top News: 
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits after less than two months on the job; claims loss of confidence in the direction of the company  —  Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job  —  Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quit just days …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Former Reddit CEO says Alexis Ohanian responsible for firing that touched off Reddit revolt, noting a “stunning lack of leadership” in letting Pao take the heat
BBC:
BBC director general Tony Hall defends the corporation as it launches annual report  —  Stevie McCrorie won the most recent series of The Voice UK in April  —  The BBC's director general has launched a robust defence of the corporation's programming amid claims that it has strayed from its public service remit.
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Press Gazette:
BBC annual report: Staff numbers up, trust levels still down since Savile scandal  —  Director-general Tony Hall has enlisted the BBC's audience in his opposition to plans for what he described as a “much-diminished” corporation.  —  Speaking to reporters at the launch of the BBC's annual review …
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
Under attack from government and besieged by commercial rivals, BBC has been forced to justify its very existence  —  The battle for the BBC  —  Under attack from a government intent on reducing its size and besieged by commercial rivals, the broadcaster has been forced to justify its very existence
Discussion: @stuartrowson and @beneltham
Alex Spence / Politico:
Sources: London based European edition of Newsweek magazine scaled back; editor-in-chief Richard Addis resigns, print editorial staff likely to lose jobs  —  Newsweek to shutter Europe edition  —  The project, devoted to long-form journalism, is ending just 18 months after it began.
Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept:
Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government to Find Out Why She Was Repeatedly Stopped at the Border  —  Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated, and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports.  —  When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn't say.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sites like Mic, Fusion, and Ozy aim at young audiences by covering equality, dating, drugs, and TV with shorter, aggregated stories and more opinion  —  Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’  —  While the mainstream media was obsessing over the results …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel raises $275M round led by KKR, source says at a valuation well over $1B; other investors include Time Warner, NBC Sports Ventures, and Comcast  —  FanDuel Raises $275 Million, Births Unicorn  —  FanDuel, one of the two major players in the budding daily fantasy sports industry, has raised $275 million in new venture funding.
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Article on Serena Williams and female athletes' body types used an old narrative and missed a chance for a more productive conversation  —  Double Fault in Article on Serena Williams and Body Image?  —  When The Times's sports staff gave the green light to an article proposed by a frequent freelancer …
 
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
News sites are getting slower, the New York Times takes 4 mins and 2MB of data download to view one story
Discussion: Beyond Search
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
YouTube boss confirms music subscription service is relaunching ‘later this year’
Discussion: TechCrunch
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat adjusts its design to bring more visibility to “Discover” section for news and ads
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
John Prideaux Named U.S. Editor of The Economist
ABC News:
Mom of Washington Post Reporter Jailed in Iran, ‘We Always Have Hope’
Discussion: New York Times
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand U.S. Inquiry
 Earlier Picks: 
James Warren / Poynter:
Most online local news sites make less than $50,000 a year
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Spin's founder Bob Guccione Jr. reflects on magazine's success on its 30th anniversary year
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gawker Media vs Hulk Hogan court case moved up to October 1
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
In digital media's youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy
The Wrap:
TheWrap's Content to Be Distributed in 17 Hearst Newspapers as Part of New Partnership
Discussion: Talking Biz News