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7:00 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 …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Months after a retracted UVA rape story that spurred lawsuits, Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana is leaving  —  Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart  —  Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Former University of Virginia Fraternity Members Sue Rolling Stone
Discussion: Jezebel
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
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
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Former ‘Top Gear’ Hosts to Launch Series on Amazon  —  The controversial ex-hosts of the long-running British television show “Top Gear” are headed to Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Instant Video service to create a new automotive series, people familiar with the matter said.
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Financial Times:   Amazon pays $250m to sign departing Top Gear trio for new show
Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC cancels three shows amid transition  —  MSNBC has formally decided to cancel three programs — “The Cycle,” “Now with Alex Wagner” and “The Ed Show” — as part of a larger effort to shift its daytime lineup away from opinion programming, network sources told the On Media blog on Thursday.
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Misses Q2 Estimates, Hurt by Rising TV Programming Costs  —  Time Warner Cable, target of a pending takeover by John Malone-backed Charter Communications, posted revenue and earnings below analyst expectations for the second quarter of 2015 — even though the cable operator touted …
Timothy Heritage / Reuters:
Independent media battle on in Putin's Russia  —  Alexei Venediktov, one of Russia's most prominent journalists, does not go out without a bodyguard and does not answer mobile phone calls for fear of being tracked.  —  He has worried about security since someone left a chopping block …
 
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