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8:50 AM ET, July 22, 2015

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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 …
Discussion: Slate and CNBC
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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 …
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
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: Associated Press
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Some New York Times Articles to Appear Free on Starbucks App  —  Starbucks and The New York Times Company announced on Tuesday that certain news articles would be made available free to members of the Starbucks loyalty program through the Starbucks mobile app.
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.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q2 beats estimates with revenue of $1.04B, misses on earnings with $0.16 EPS  —  Yahoo's Q2 Manages A Slim Revenue Beat, But Its Per-Share Profit Of $0.16 Disappoints  —  Today, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including $1.04 billion in revenue after discounting …
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
Brent Lang / Variety:
Digital network CryptTV, co-founded by actor and 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.
David Pierce / Wired:
Behind the launch of Discover Weekly, Spotify's new personalized playlist  —  Inside Spotify's Hunt for the Perfect Playlist  —  What kind of music do you listen to?  Your answer is probably something like, “Oh, a little bit of everything.”  Or maybe, “Anything but country and metal.”  (And polka.
Discussion: Music Ally
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
BuzzFeed Food's videos were shared 66M times in June, watched over 360M times overall on Facebook  —  Food publishers are early winners of Facebook video  —  Food publishers have found the recipe for success when it comes to Facebook video.  —  The most popular video publisher on Facebook …
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.
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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
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: Tubefilter and Variety
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The Salt Lake Tribune, its future uncertain, offers to eliminate all its ads — for 10 bucks a month
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’
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Cory Haik named WaPo's executive director of emerging news products
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Harper's is launching a metered paywall; readers can read one story a month for free
Discussion: Folio, Poynter and Harper's
 

 
From Techmeme:

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters

Ming-Chi Kuo:
Survey: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has “fallen sharply beyond expectations”

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions
 
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