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11:40 AM ET, July 22, 2015

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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
At Gawker meeting, Denton says editorial must take business and advertising concerns into consideration  —  The ‘Gawker tax’ is getting too high, Denton tells his staff  —  Gawker Media is a business.  —  That's the message that C.E.O. Nick Denton had for his editorial employees yesterday …
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Drama at Gawker and Reddit reflects practical limits of absolute freedom of expression, even for native Internet companies that have opposed self-censorship  —  Limits at Gawker?  Rules at Reddit?  Wild West Web Turns a Page  —  Facing the abrupt resignations of two of his top editors …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Denton works to calm Gawker staff; Leah Beckmann was asked to serve as interim editor in chief, John Cook as interim executive editor  —  Gawker's Nick Denton Tries to Calm Staff as Fallout Continues  —  THE STORY THAT JUST KEEPS ON GIVING: Gawker Media has now become the perfect Gawkerlike story — and no end appears near.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube  —  News org, together with British Movietone, aims to promote licensing deals with filmmakers for video segments  —  The Associated Press is uploading more than 550,000 video clips to YouTube — covering news events dating back to 1895 …
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
ESPN, Already Battling Rising Costs, Faces a Talent Drain  —  In just over two months, ESPN has lost three major personalities — a drain of renowned talent that is unusual in its suddenness.  —  First, Bill Simmons's contract was not renewed in early May.
Discussion: TVNewser
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Worries grow about freelance Japanese journalist in Syria  —  1 photo  —  TOKYO (AP) — Worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from one month ago in war-torn Syria, where reporting assignments have become among the most precarious in the world.
Discussion: Guardian and Poynter
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BBC:
Andy Coulson ordered to pay £150,000 prosecution costs  —  Andy Coulson served five months of an 18-month sentence in jail  —  Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been ordered to pay £150,000 prosecution costs after his 2014 conviction for phone hacking.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
New York Times to offer articles through Starbucks' mobile app beginning in 2016, loyalty members to earn rewards for digital and print subscriptions  —  Some New York Times Articles to Appear Free on Starbucks App  —  Starbucks and The New York Times Company announced on Tuesday …
Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Chairman and Justice Department say they will approve AT&T Direct TV merger, with conditions on data caps, interconnection agreements, and fiber buildout  —  FCC Poised to Approve AT&T's $49 Billion Acquisition of DirecTV  —  FCC Approval Would Clear Path for AT&T to Close Deal
Brent Lang / Variety:
Digital network CryptTV, co-founded by director Eli Roth, to produce live, Snapchat-based murder mystery show this Sunday  —  Eli Roth Producing Snapchat Murder Mystery  —  Snapchat users will be able to figure out if the butler did it in real time.  —  In an intriguing, digital era twist …
TechCrunch:
Flipboard Has Filed To Raise Another $50M  —  Flipboard's 75% jump in the last 6 months has it clocking in at over 70 million monthly active users.  And it looks like that is not the only recent bump for the startup: It appears to have quietly raised another $50 million in funding.
Discussion: Business Insider
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NFL Teases A New Subscription Service For On-Demand Games, Will Support Apple TV
Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian:
Ofcom: On-demand video on Vice's UK site will not be subject to the British Communications Act
Discussion: Advanced Television
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q2 beats estimates with revenue of $1.04B, misses on earnings with $0.16 EPS
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Google kills Streamus, a popular third party Chrome extension with 300K users that queued YouTube songs to play in background
Discussion: 9to5Google, Tubefilter and Variety
 Earlier Picks: 
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The Salt Lake Tribune, its future uncertain, offers to eliminate all its ads — for 10 bucks a month
Discussion: @niemanlab
Variety:
Penske Media Corporation, owner of Variety, acquires Gold Derby, a website that predicts who will win major entertainment award shows
Discussion: The Wrap and FishbowlNY
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer ‘watched by more than 60 million people outside the UK for free’
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Cory Haik named WaPo's executive director of emerging news products
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens up its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo will release Horizon OS-compatible devices; Xbox plans a branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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