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3:00 AM ET, July 6, 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.
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, Variety, Folio and Media Wire Daily
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.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
In court filings, Hulk Hogan's lawyers say Gawker Media concealed a $200K loan to Nick Denton for personal bankruptcy counsel  —  It's also argued that an indemnification agreement doesn't cover Denton.  —  Hulk Hogan doesn't think that Gawker's Chapter 11 should save Nick Denton from having to declare personal bankruptcy.
Discussion: @krittr and @eriqgardner
Anita Busch / Deadline:
9-year-old journalist Hilde Lysiak gets a book deal to co-write four books for Scholastic with her father; film/TV rights being sold as well  —  EXCLUSIVE: Scholastic has acquired the worldwide rights to four books by nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak (to be co-written with her father …
Financial Times:
Condé Nast to launch Vogue Arabia online in October and print in the spring; Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz named editor-in-chief  —  Arrival of international fashion magazine to fuel Gulf states' appetite for luxury goods  —  Rumoured for years, Vogue Arabia's launch has finally been announced by publishers Condé Nast.
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
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Source: International Business Times considers doubling its Bangalore-based US edition news team after US layoffs  —  The International Business Times is considering doubling the size of its team in Bangalore, following mass layoffs in its New York office, POLITICO has learned.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
How 17-year-old singer Hailey Knox uses live-streaming mobile app YouNow to develop performance skills and interact with 80K followers  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — At VidCon, a sprawling conference here for the young stars of online video, success has a particular sound: a sudden, earsplitting shriek …
BBC:
About 100 BBC Monitoring jobs to be axed amid £4m cuts  —  At least 98 jobs at the BBC Monitoring department are to be cut ahead of a £4m reduction in funding.  —  The department, which has 320 staff, analyses local media from 150 countries in 100 different languages, but the operation is to be scaled down.
 
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Mother Jones prison investigation shows how undercover reporting can work, with extreme care in some cases
Columbia Journalism Review:
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Stewart broadcasts on Facebook Live, testing sponsorships to create revenue
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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