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7:55 PM ET, July 5, 2016

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Dana Schwartz / The New York Observer:
Reporter writes open letter to New York Observer owner and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner about anti-Semitic Trump tweets and supporters  —  My name is Dana Schwartz and I'm an entertainment writer at The Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company.
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Comcast to allow Netflix onto its X1 video platform later this year, a major move in a relationship that once stoked net neutrality concerns  —  The move means the once contentious pair are now pals.  —  Cable giant Comcast will allow popular Web video streaming service Netflix onto its X1 platform …
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
ComScore: 38% of US smartphone users 25-34 are on Snapchat, 14% of 35 or older, up from 5% and 2% three years ago  —  An estimated 14% of U.S. smartphone users 35 or older are on messaging app  —  Paris Zeikos says he noticed a surprising trend on Snapchat.
Alastair Reid / First Draft News:
BuzzFeed tests global beat to debunk fake news and hoaxes, headed by BuzzFeed Canada editor Craig Silverman  —  Almost a year to the day after launching its Canadian edition, BuzzFeed announced this week that it would be closing its Ottawa bureau and re-locating staff to the US.
Choi Chi-yuk / South China Morning Post:
China's internet censor says online media cannot gather news from social media without approval or publish news without verification  —  Cyberspace Administration's move comes days after Xu Lin, formerly deputy head of the body, takes on top role  —  China's powerful internet censorship body …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Vice Media acquires art and culture publication Garage Magazine, plans to build digital video channel and launch international editions  —  Vice Media has acquired a controlling stake in Garage Magazine, an art and culture publication founded by Dasha Zhukova, the wife of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich …
Discussion: WWD, Folio, Variety and Media Wire Daily
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Reporter's notes submitted to court in Rolling Stone defamation case for UVA rape story show early inconsistencies in claims of the primary source, “Jackie”  —  Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely spent five months investigating a shocking claim of a gang rape at a University …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Univision reaches out to English-speaking Latinos with a dedicated section of its website  —  At the Iowa Caucus back in February, Univision political reporter Fernando Peinado posted a video of one of the now infamous tiebreaker coin tosses with a Spanish caption:
Discussion: @raju
Alan White / BuzzFeed:
UK publisher Archant announces The New European, a pop-up paper for British “dismayed by Brexit”, for an initial run of 4 issues  —  The New European, published 8 July, is described as a “pop-up paper” which took Archant just nine days to conceive and get into newsagents.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Stewart broadcasts on Facebook Live, testing sponsorships to create revenue  —  Veteran TV personality has been testing out Facebook's live streaming, which is much cheaper to produce than a TV show  —  Veteran TV personality Martha Stewart has made more than two dozen Facebook Live episodes since …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
New York Times:
At least 164 staffers have left Polish state broadcasting and audiences have declined at all state TV channels since January media controls went into effect  —  WARSAW, Poland — The ax fell for Piotr Maslak just 12 days into the new year, when his new boss at Poland's state television told …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Gawker Media built a tool to push top 10 comment threads to Facebook Instant Articles and AMP  —  For many publishers, comments are an important way to create reader engagement.  There are few places where that's more true than Gawker Media, where co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting …
Discussion: @nicknotned and @digiday
 
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post is using Slack to create a reader community focused on the gender pay gap
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Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

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Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted
 
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