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4:00 AM ET, July 21, 2015

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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Denton talks about editorial freedom, official editorial policy, and changing standards; staff meets again Tuesday  —  Gawker's Denton: ‘This is not the company I built’  —  “This is the very, very worst version of the company,” Gawker Media founder and C.E.O. Nick Denton told …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Executive editor Tommy Craggs and editor-in-chief Max Read resign from Gawker; Craggs says advertisers threatened to pull out over escort story  —  Tommy Craggs and Max Read are Resigning from Gawker  —  Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Nick Denton had been at odds with Executive Editor Tommy Craggs over company's long-term direction, with Denton telling Craggs that Gawker was “too mean”  —  Gawker's Existential Crisis  —  Is the notoriously snarky media growing up, or falling apart?  —  Shares
Nick Denton:
Gawker founder Nick Denton issues statement, says he alone decided to remove story about male escort but had support of managing partnership  —  To All of Edit at Gawker Media  —  The Managing Partnership as a whole is responsible for the Company's management and direction, but they do not and should not make editorial decisions.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze launch new digital magazine, Autonomous, on Medium  —  Veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze launch digital magazine  —  A handful of veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze website are setting up shop on Medium today, with the launch of a new publication called Autonomous.
Anthony Clark / The Gainvesville Sun:
Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead at home; no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs found  —  Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home  —  Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday …
Mark Armstrong / Longreads Blog:
Writer of Grantland's “Dr. V's Magical Putter”, Caleb Hannan, says his wife and a fact checker raised questions about the story before it was published  —  ‘Dr. V’ Writer Caleb Hannan Speaks for the First Time About What Went Wrong … Out of everyone who read an early draft of …
Bloomberg Business:
Pearson to Explore Sale of Financial Times  —  Pearson Plc is exploring a sale of the Financial Times after receiving interest from potential buyers, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  London-based Pearson is sounding out possible bidders for the salmon-colored newspaper …
Bloomberg Business:
YouTube signs most of its partners for paid service but no shows from major TV networks yet  —  Google's YouTube Signs Up Everyone But TV for New Paid Service … Google Inc.'s YouTube, which has signed up partners for a new paid video service, may find out by early next year whether …
Discussion: The Verge, @sarahfrier and @tpalazzo
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
W.W.D. strikes syndication deal with Tribune Publishing  —  Penske Media's W.W.D. has struck a syndication deal with Tribune Publishing, seeing the fashion trade magazine's coverage of the industry appear on LATimes.com, as well in print form for certain Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune …
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds  —  Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals  —  The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier …
Discussion: @mathewi and @dtunkelang
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How KPCC in Los Angeles grew its Latino listenership while trying to keep its traditional audience  —  In California, Latinos now outnumber whites as the largest ethnic group in the state, and Los Angeles County is home to the largest Latino population of any county in the United States.
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
Wall Street Journal decreases focus on live video programming, allocates more resources to video with news articles  —  From “WSJ Live” to “WSJ Video”: Publishers step away from dreams of live TV-style broadcasting online  —  For The Wall Street Journal, it was just a change in an icon …
Press Gazette:
Sun tells tribunal that Met violated journalists' rights with secret grab of phone records  —  The rights of Sun journalists were “unquestionably violated” when the Metropolitan Police secretly obtained their phone records, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard.
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Dominic Casciani / BBC:   The Sun is challenging the Met police in court over accessing reporters' phone records in 2012
 
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
20 news sites loaded a total of 516 trackers from about 100 vendors to monitor users' browsing; about 60% of the trackers were ad-related
Discussion: Guardian
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Digital First Media's Salt Lake Tribune may be sold soon, possibly affecting a joint operating agreement with Deseret News that has few profits to split
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Maker Studios is shutting down pioneering online video site Blip on Aug. 20
Discussion: @chrispirillo
The Center for Public Integrity:
Center for Public Integrity sues Federal Election Commission for delay in releasing documents under FOIA request
Discussion: @davelevinthal
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Rhonda Richford / Hollywood Reporter:
French TV Giants End Talks to Merge Streaming Services Amid Netflix Competition
BBC Press Office:
BBC England director, Peter Salmon, to lead newly-created production division, BBC Studios; Helen Boaden to take over BBC England director role
Discussion: Guardian
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Amazon, Netflix, and Yahoo score record number of Emmy nominations