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9:40 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.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Inside IBT Media's troubles: reliance on search traffic, annoying autoplay videos, and low social media engagement  —  Two years ago, IBT Media co-founder Johnathan Davis addressed his ties to an unconventional pastor as well as his views that gay people could be cured, saying his work and beliefs were separate.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Simeon Kerr / 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.
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 …
Ben Dowell / RadioTimes:
BBC cuts management team from 16 to 11 in reshuffle; BBC 1 boss Charlotte Moore to become director of content, overseeing TV channels and iPlayer  —  Tony Hall cuts his executive team from 16 to 11 in major reshuffle designed to create a “simpler BBC”  —  BBC1 boss Charlotte Moore is set …
 
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube increases support staff so even smaller creators can talk to actual humans when dealing with various issues
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Univision reaches out to English-speaking Latinos with a dedicated section of its website
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with NPR CEO Jarl Mohn on podcasting, millennial listeners, and audience retention
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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
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them early next year

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
The US charges dual Russian and Israeli national Rostislav Panev for allegedly working with the LockBit ransomware group and seeks his extradition from Israel
 
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