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9:40 PM ET, July 30, 2015

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Sources: NBCUniversal close to investing $250M in BuzzFeed at a $1.5B valuation, also investing in Vox Media at a $850M valuation  —  NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media  —  NBCUniversal is close to a deal to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett ‘Aggressively Pursuing’ Large-Market Acquisitions, Says New CEO  —  Strategy follows completion of spinoff from company's broadcast unit  —  Gannett Co. 's new chief executive said Wednesday that the publishing company is aggressively pursuing acquisitions of large-market properties …
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Roger Yu / USA Today:   Gannett Q2: net income up 2.3% YoY to $53.3M, revenue down 8.7% to $727.1M
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Gawker names John Cook temporary executive editor, Leah Beckmann editor-in-chief, Hamilton Nolan deputy editor  —  Exclusive: John Cook Named New Top Editor At Gawker After Resignations  —  John Cook will be stepping up to temporarily serve as executive editor at Gawker Media …
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Apple planning to debut new Apple TV during September iPhone event  —  Apple Will Debut New Apple TV In September  —  The new Apple TV is headed to market along with an App Store of its own.  Next step: that long-in-the-offing subscription internet-TV service.  —  Managing Editor, BuzzFeed San Francisco
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Germany is investigating two journalists at Netzpolitik tech and politics site for treason after they published secret spy documents  —  After publishing secret spy docs, German news site investigated for treason  —  Markus Beckedahl of Netzpolitik.org: “We don't know if we should cry or not.”
Discussion: BBC and @jeffjarvis
Financial Times:
Amazon pays $250m to sign departing Top Gear trio for new show  —  Matthew Garrahan in New York, Murad Ahmed and Henry Mance in London  —  Amazon has signed the departing presenters of BBC's Top Gear show in a blockbuster $250m deal, as internet groups continue to encroach on the terrain of traditional broadcasters.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Former ‘Top Gear’ Hosts to Launch Series on Amazon
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Former University of Virginia Fraternity Members Sue Rolling Stone  —  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.  —  Three former members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia filed a lawsuit against Rolling Stone …
Discussion: Jezebel
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Months after a retracted UVA rape story that spurred lawsuits, Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana is leaving
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A new app from NowThis wants to reduce the work of finding news to one big red button  —  The two-and-a-half year old distributed media company NowThis bears little resemblance to the “social news video startup” that we first covered nearly three years ago.  It's seen a name change …
The New York Times Company:
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger Named Associate Editor  —  New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet announced that Arthur Gregg Sulzberger has been promoted to Associate Editor in a memo to staff.  The memo follows:  —  Mapping Our Strategy: A.G. Sulzberger  —  Effective immediately, A.G. Sulzberger will be an Associate Editor.
Discussion: WWD and Poynter
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC cancels 3 hours of daytime programming as it moves toward hard news: The Cycle, Now With Alex Wagner, and The Ed Show  —  MSNBC Spikes Three Hours of Afternoon Lineup  —  MSNBC is canceling three more hours of daytime programming as it works to rechristen itself as a place for hard news …
 
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
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Discussion: Business Insider and FishbowlNY
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic, ad revenue, and new and smaller publishers
Discussion: Search Engine Land and @tolles