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11:30 PM ET, June 18, 2016

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sumner Redstone removes five members of Viacom's board of directors, including Philippe Dauman, who remains CEO for now  —  Among those ousted are Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman  —  Sumner Redstone's National Amusements on Thursday replaced five board members of Viacom Inc. …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Viacom warns of earnings shortfall, is paying legal bills for CEO Dauman during struggle for company control  —  As he wages legal battles in multiple states to keep his position in Sumner M. Redstone's media empire, Philippe P. Dauman's legal bills are being paid by Viacom.
Discussion: @emilysteel and Recode
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief  —  Snapchat doesn't just care about video.  —  The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly …
Al Jazeera English:
Egypt finalizes death sentences in absentia for two Al Jazeera journalists and one Rassd News Network reporter  —  Court delivers verdicts for defendants accused of leaking state secrets to Qatar, including Al Jazeera journalists.  —  An Egyptian court has handed down its final ruling …
Corey Hutchins / The Colorado Independent:
Fearing more layoffs after buyout offers, Denver Post journalists organize a rally against hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital  —  DENVER — As a cops reporter for a corporate-owned newspaper in South Carolina, Noelle Phillips had already survived multiple rounds of layoffs before moving across …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Sports Illustrated incoming editorial director Chris Stone on premium digital content, website redesign plans, and new verticals  —  Much has changed since Chris Stone first joined Sports Illustrated in 1992.  —  While SI was once focused solely on publishing a weekly magazine …
Discussion: VideoInk
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Appeals Court Hands Vimeo a Victory in Liability for Copyright-Infringing Videos  —  A federal appellate court has ruled that Vimeo has limited liability over users' uploading of almost 200 videos with infringing music recordings, rejecting claims from record companies and publishers …
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms  —  To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media.  Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs.  He founded a podcast company years before most people listened to them.
Discussion: @james_gross and @sacca
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
VR startup Vrse changes names to Within and announces $12.56M funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and including Fox, WME, and Vice  —  A shot from Chris Milk's ‘Evolution of Verse’ (Within)  —  For virtual-reality entertainment, the money keeps coming.
Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
As pay TV provider group releases “Ditch the Box” proposal to FCC, Google-backed group calls it a delay tactic  —  A trade group backed by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has derided the pay-TV industry's counter-proposal to an FCC plan to open cable …
Discussion: Engadget
 
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