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6:30 PM ET, July 15, 2015

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Jamieson Cox / The Verge:
Spike Lee's Chi-Raq is officially Amazon's first original movie  —  It's been rumored for a while, but we now have confirmation that Spike Lee's upcoming Chi-Raq will be Amazon Studios' first original movie.  Lee directed the movie and co-wrote it with Kevin Willmott.
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix supports Charter's Time Warner Cable merger after Charter pledges not to charge peering fees for content providers through 2018  —  Netflix to Support Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable … Netflix Inc. will support Charter Communications Inc.'s $55 billion acquisition …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit  —  Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit  —  Today following the bell, Netflix announced its second-quarter financial performance …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sasha Frere-Jones to launch entertainment vertical at the LA Times  —  Sasha Frere-Jones, the former New Yorker music writer who left that magazine for the annotation startup Genius, will be a cultural critic at large for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper announced Wednesday morning.
Discussion: The New York Observer
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Marlene Sanders, the first woman to anchor a prime-time network newscast, dies at age 84  —  Pioneering TV journalist Marlene Sanders dies  —  LOS ANGELES—Marlene Sanders, one of the first female broadcast TV journalists, died of cancer Tuesday at age 84.
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Bill Carter, Michael Wolff Join THR Contributing Editor Ranks  —  With Bill Carter, you get subject matter expertise like this: I interviewed David Letterman for the first time when I was reporting my book The Late Shift in 1993.  He was then, and has remained, the most reliably great interview subject I can remember.
Discussion: @thrmattbelloni and @janicebmin
John Jewell / The Conversation:
Murdoch newspapers have a long history of teaming up with conservative governments to target public media like the BBC  —  Bad news week for BBC as Murdoch press sharpens claws  —  Sang Tan / AP/Press Association Images  —  It's to be yet another week of crisis, inspection and introspection …
Discussion: Telegraph
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Harper's magazine employees vote to end their union, had been affiliated since 2010 with UAW  —  Harper's employees bust out of union  —  A majority of included Harper's magazine employees voted earlier this month to end their association with a union, according to an election certification …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
How 98-year-old Forbes Media generates 70% of its revenues from digital  —  Five years ago, Forbes Media's total traffic amounted to 12 million visitors a month.  Now it gets close to 36 million visitors, with 18 million on mobile.  —  Mark Howard, chief revenue officer of Forbes Media …
Discussion: @raju
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Skift nears profitability, is focusing on trends and the future of travel  —  What are they thinking?  Rafat Ali's go long, go deep vertical strategy  —  There's bootstrap, and there's “bootstrap plus.”  Bootstrap plus is what digital media entrepreneur Rafat Ali calls his Skift modus operandi.
Discussion: @alacra1, @jayrosen_nyu and @raju
 
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Steven Morris / Guardian:
Brighton council rapped for attempt to charge £200 recording fee for interview
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