Mediagazer: Vatican court clears two journalists who wrote books based on leaks, sentences one source, a priest, to 18 months and gives another a suspended sentence (Rosie Scammell/Guardian)

3:30 PM ET, July 7, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

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Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:

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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Center:

Study: 81% of US adults get news online, up from 12% 20 years ago; 72% get news on mobile devices; 36% of online news comes via orgs, 15% from friends, family — Twenty years ago, only 12% of U.S. adults got news online. Today, that number stands at 81%.

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Noah Kulwin / Recode:

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:

Sky News and Sky Sports to eliminate 50 technical jobs and introduce automated robot camera system — Introduction of new system controlling robot cameras likely to result in fewer technical directors, camera operators and vision mixers — Sky has told about 50 studio staff across news …

Rosie Scammell / Guardian:

Vatican court clears two journalists who wrote books based on leaks, sentences one source, a priest, to 18 months and gives another a suspended sentence — Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi cleared by Vatican court of printing leaked files with allegations about Catholic church

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Rhonda Cook / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Lawyer for Georgia newspaper publisher says felony charges stemming from records request dropped — Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee dropped today the three felony charges brought against the publisher of a local weekly newspaper and his attorney that were brought based …

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Guardian Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner gives bleak prognosis for journalism as social media dominates, tells marketers they're financing fake news sites — Guardian News and Media's editor-in-chief Katharine Viner's prognosis of news publishing in an algorithm- and platform-dominated world is bleak.

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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:

Patrick Dolan acquires 75% of Newsday Media from Altice and becomes company president — Son of Cablevision founder Charles Dolan also becomes president of Newsday — Patrick Dolan, the son of Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, has bought a majority ownership stake in Newsday Media Group …