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10:40 AM ET, July 8, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Immediacy, intimacy, mass reach, and influence on media show the power of Facebook Live and other streaming services  —  When Philando Castile was shot by a Minnesota police officer Wednesday evening, his girlfriend's first instinct was to start broadcasting.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Gretchen Carlson's Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News  —  Throughout his five-decade career in media and Republican politics, Roger Ailes has demonstrated a remarkable talent for self-preservation.  “I have been through about 12 train wrecks in my career.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Carlson lawsuit against Roger Ailes forces Fox News to deal with changing power at 21st Century Fox and a changing world  —  At a time of fast-moving social change, Fox News can at times be viewed as a port in a storm for traditionalists who pine for the way we were — for the days …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform  —  Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business.  The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
Jared Kushner / The New York Observer:
Jared Kushner defends father-in-law Donald Trump, saying the worst he could be criticized for was carelessness in retweeting imagery interpreted as offensive  —  My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite.  —  It's that simple, really.  Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
BBC begins international rollout of its iPlayer radio app on iOS and Android, starting with Ireland  —  The BBC's numerous radio stations have listeners the world over, not just Brits sitting down to their afternoon tea and crumpets.  In fact, the English-language World Service station alone boasts a global audience of 66 million.
Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Audible launches on-demand audio service Channels with six original-content shows, free with $15 per month Audible membership or $5 per month standalone service  —  The audio retailer unveiled six new original-content shows on Thursday  —  Audible just used an age-old tactic to get attention: It flashed its breasts.
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%.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Economist profits up to £61m as paid subscriptions offset 18% print ad fall  —  Strategy of pushing readers to premium packages of print and digital content pays off for magazine, which this year severed links with Pearson  —  The Economist grew profits to more than £60m …
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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
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Sky News and Sky Sports to eliminate 50 technical jobs and introduce automated robot camera system
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning

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