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4:30 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.
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.
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Financial Times:
Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The publisher ‘stores’ that drive commerce while preserving reader trust  —  Given the challenges of digital media, commerce is a tempting way for publishers to create new revenue streams by extending their brands.  But slapping commerce links on articles can lead to the impression …
Rachel Raudenbush / Digiday:
How Politico crafts branded content with a political agenda  —  While most publishers rushed to set up content studios and nab native ad revenue, Politico has been slow to enter the field of branded content.  Since 2013, the news outlet's branded content strategy has mainly been to serve …
Discussion: Politico
Hilary Milnes / Digiday:
Petco's YouTube strategy is more than cute animal videos  —  For Petco's new YouTube series, “Pet Code,” the pet store recruited a well-known duo: professional vlogger Toby Turner (who goes by Tobuscus on YouTube) and his popular dog Gryphon.  Turner and his dog's back-and-forth …
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
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
A startup founder confronts Reid Hoffman on LinkedIn's confusing design.  Here's his response  —  As the co-founder of LinkedIn, a successful venture investor, and an author, Reid Hoffman commands a lot of respect in Silicon Valley.  Young startup founders don't often take him to task.
Discussion: The Next Web
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.
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
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.
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
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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