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3:15 PM 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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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”
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up  —  Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be  —  Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The Salt Lake Tribune, its future uncertain, offers to eliminate all its ads — for 10 bucks a month  —  The Trib is looking for members.  —  On Monday, The Salt Lake Tribune launched a membership program that was first announced last week.  Described as being for frequent visitors …
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
W.W.D. strikes syndication deal with Tribune Publishing
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
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
Discussion: @stevebuttry
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Tegna to Sell Headquarters for $270 Million  —  Former Gannett TV division shopping for new digs  —  Tegna, as the former Gannett broadcasting division is known, has signed a contract to sell its McLean, Virginia headquarters to private investment group Tamares for $270 million.
Discussion: E& and Media Wire Daily
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Felix Salmon / Guardian:
Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging bandwidth, which may drive readers to Apple News or Facebook apps  —  Ad tech is killing the online experience  —  Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging up our bandwidth - which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps
Discussion: The Verge and Fortune
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Met press office provided journalists' mobile numbers so police could view call records and find sources  —  The Metropolitan Police made a series of errors in secret applications to view the phone records of Sun journalists and showed a complete failure to consider issues around the confidentiality of sources, a court heard.
Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Booktrack Pulls In Another $5 Million To Put Audio To E-Books  —  Booktrack, a startup out of New Zealand that creates soundtracks to accompany e-books, has raised another $5 million in funding to make sure that reading is no longer a quiet activity.  —  Led by COENT Venture Partners …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Cory Haik named WaPo's executive director of emerging news products  —  Cory Haik, the brains behind The Washington Post's skunkworks devoted to technological experimentation, has been named executive director of emerging news products there.  —  Haik, currently an executive producer …
Discussion: Washington Post
Variety:
Penske Media Corporation, owner of Variety, acquires Gold Derby, a website that predicts who will win major entertainment award shows  —  Penske Media Corporation Acquires Gold Derby  —  Gold Derby, a website dedicated to predicting the winners at major entertainment awards shows …
Discussion: The Wrap
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer ‘watched by more than 60 million people outside the UK for free’  —  Research finds more than 38 million people in China are using VPNs or proxy servers to watch BBC shows - and could be a useful source of revenue  —  More than 60 million people around the world …
 
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Harper's is launching a metered paywall; readers can read one story a month for free
Discussion: Harper's
Inti Landauro / Wall Street Journal:
Charlie Hebdo's profits, normally distributed amongst shareholders, will be reinvested in the company in this year in act of good will following staff dispute
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How KPCC in Los Angeles grew its Latino listenership while trying to keep its traditional audience
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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
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds
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: Sharyl Attkisson
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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