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7:10 AM ET, July 25, 2015

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC has approved AT&T's $48.5B acquisition of DirecTV with conditions, making combined firm the largest US pay TV company with 26M subscribers  —  FCC approves AT&T-DirecTV merger  —  The FCC has approved AT&T's $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, bringing one of the nation's largest …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Financial Times to seek new London HQ next year  —  FT Group chief executive John Ridding says paper will also look to hire more staff following its acquisition by Japanese media group Nikkei  —  The Financial Times will begin looking for a replacement for its Thames-side London offices …
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Alex Spence / Politico:   FT sale could mean Pearson selling its 50% stake in The Economist, but transfer of shares requires trustee approval
Bloomberg Business:
How Nikkei won the Financial Times by adding £100M to Axel Springer's bid at the last minute
Christopher Cushing / Reuters:
Nikkei's FT buy follows years of attempting to break into English news
Discussion: Financial Times
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:   Nikkei tells Financial Times staff it does not plan job cuts
Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast in talks with several online publishers including Vice, BuzzFeed, and Business Insider, and has discussed increasing its roughly 14% stake in Vox  —  Comcast in Talks With Multiple New-Media Firms  —  Cable giant negotiating with Vice, BuzzFeed, others as it seeks access to young audiences
Discussion: @mikeisaac, The Hill and BGR
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
New Gawker will be ‘20 percent nicer,’ Denton tells staff  —  When Gawker.com relaunches on Monday, expect it to be 20 percent nicer—or maybe just 10 percent nicer.  —  That's what Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton told Gawker.com employees yesterday, during a meeting at the Crown Victoria bar in Williamsburg.
TechCrunch:
Flipboard Confirms New $50M Funding Round From JP Morgan  —  Flipboard has confirmed to us that it has raised $50 million, two days after we first reported that the company had authorized the shares earlier this year.  JP Morgan was the sole investor, the company says.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon's mobile video service Go90 will launch late this summer, initially for free, with full TV show episodes from select networks on tap  —  Verizon Mobile Video Service Details Uncovered: To Be Called Go90 (Exclusive)  —  Verizon is getting ready to launch a new mobile video service called Go90 this summer, Variety has learned.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing State's Own Laws  —  State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing The State's Own Laws  —  Two years ago, we wrote about the state of Georgia ridiculously threatening to sue Carl Malamud …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
How a collaborative approach is helping NPR and local stations raise more money  —  A little teamwork between NPR and some member stations is helping raise money for future public media projects.  According to Current, more than $4 million has been raised in the last year by NPR working …
Discussion: Current.org
James Rainey / Variety:
Relativity Media countersues RKA Film Financing for $200M, which had sued Relativity and its CEO, Ryan Kavanaugh, for $90M claiming fraud  —  New Lawsuit Calls Ryan Kavanaugh ‘Con Man,’ Accusing the Relativity Chief of Fraud (Exclusive)  —  UPDATED: A New York finance company …
Re/code:
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.
Caroline Bauman / Nieman Storyboard:
The Riveter, a longform journalism magazine “by women, for women”, to expand print edition to quarterly next year  —  The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women  —  With their website and print quarterly, founders Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz are addressing gender disparities in narrative nonfiction
Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
Poynter to launch international fact checking site funded by Omidyar Network and National Endowment for Democracy grants  —  Poynter to launch international fact checking site  —  The Poynter Institute will build an international fact checking operation with $225,000 in grant funding …
 
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press predicts advertising growth this year for first time in a decade
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Azerbaijani Journalist Ismayilova Asserts Innocence In First Day of Trial
Discussion: Guardian
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
Malaysia Suspends 2 Newspapers Covering Scandal at State-Owned Fund
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Philadelphia Magazine calls on the New York Times to reverse decision and publish Bill Cosby's 2005 deposition in full
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
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