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1:10 AM ET, July 24, 2015

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Sulzberger scion Sam Dolnick gets a promotion at the Times  —  The New York Times has promoted Sam Dolnick to an associate editor position, reflecting the Times' growing focus on digital and the rise of one of the younger members of the family that controls the paper.
Financial Times:
Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson  —  Henry Mance, Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan  —  Nikkei, Japan's largest media company, is to buy the FT Group from Pearson for £844m, bringing the curtain down on the UK-based company's 58-year ownership of the global news organisation.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
For 58 years, Pearson kept a hands-off approach to FT's newsroom, which built its digital strength recently with metered news access  —  Hands-off owner hands over FT after 58 years  —  The Financial Times has covered countless takeovers since its creation in 1888, and detailed waves of consolidation …
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Sources: Snapchat to add BuzzFeed, Vox, and others to Discover, drop Warner Music; 2 or 3 new partners added next week, second group in August or September  —  Snapchat Adding New Publishers to Its Service, Including BuzzFeed  —  You'll soon see a few more publishers in Snapchat's Discover feature.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast took $252M impairment charge on Weather Channel, increases Hulu estimate from $167M at end of last year to $267M as of June 30  —  Comcast Slashes the Value of Its Weather Channel Investment … The Weather Channel's distribution woes are casting a cloud over its owners' investments.
Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Sharpton launches blog to ‘flip the script’ on media  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton has frequently criticized members the media, even after himself becoming host of a nationally syndicated radio show and a weeknight show on MSNBC.  Now, he'll bring his media criticism to a new frontier: the internet.
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
New Federal FOIA Ombudsman Comes From DHS, Has Dubious Judgment About Journalism  —  Holzer's public record on FOIA is cause for concern.  —  Senior Editor for Technology and Society, The Huffington Post  —  The U.S. has a new ombudsman for the Freedom of Information Act.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Dish objects to upcoming FCC order to deny $3.3B in discounts it sought in wireless spectrum auction earlier this year  —  Dish Responds to FCC's Move to Deny Spectrum Auction Discounts  —  Satellite provider told that matter won't get a hearing or referred to an enforcement bureau
Discussion: FierceWireless
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS  —  Google Spotlight Stories, a mobile app featuring immersive, 360 degree animated films originally developed by Motorola ahead of its 2011 Google acquisition, has now made its way to iOS devices.
Discussion: The Next Web, The Verge and Engadget
Richard Parker / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Dallas Morning News editor Mike Wilson on data-driven news, local coverage, and revenue diversification  —  Dallas Morning News editor: ‘We are all salespeople now’  —  Late last year, Mike Wilson became the first person in 35 years from outside the offices of The Dallas Morning News to be named the paper's top editor.
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Pandora Q2 sales grow 30% YoY to $285.6M, local ads up 67% to $58.9M, mobile now 80.4% of revenue, listener growth only 3.9% YoY  —  Pandora Revenue Grows 30 Percent, Listener Growth Slows  —  The online radio company's royalty burden improved to 45.6 percent of revenue in the second quarter.
Associated Press:
San Diego's Daily Transcript to close after nearly 130 years  —  1 photo  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Daily Transcript of San Diego said Wednesday it will publish its last edition Sept. 1, ending a nearly 130-year run in the newspaper business.  —  The newspaper is no longer viable due …
 
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
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Capital New York:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency
 
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