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4:10 AM ET, July 12, 2016

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Recent events show how Facebook and Twitter serve complementary roles during breaking news, strengthening each other  —  Twitter and Facebook can stand alone, but each is weaker on its own.  —  For years, Facebook and Twitter have been at odds over news.  But if we've learned anything …
Farai Chideya / FiveThirtyEight:
Shorenstein Center study: Trump dominated political coverage in eight major news outlets in the first half of 2016  —  Donald Trump and the race to be the Republican presidential nominee dominated political coverage in the first half of 2016, according to a study released Monday …
Discussion: Shorenstein Center
Politico:
Analysis of the tensions within 21st Century Fox amid the accusations against Ailes  —  It's almost impossible to imagine Fox News without its creator and guardian, Roger Ailes.  Almost.  —  “One man has established a culture for 1,700 people who believe in it, who follow it, who execute it …
Discussion: Jezebel, Variety, The Hill, Fortune and NPR
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Inside the team of lawyers and PR company behind Gretchen Carlson's case against Roger Ailes
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Twitter partners with CBS, CBSN, to livestream Republican and Democratic Conventions  —  Twitter has been perhaps the most talked about platform this election cycle.  (Thanks, Donald Trump.)  Now, in hopes of capturing even more of the political conversation, the company is announcing …
Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed partners with Warner Bros. on film about internet phenomenon Brother Orange; Ellen DeGeneres will act as executive producer  —  EMAIL ME  —  Ellen DeGeneres will executive produce along with Broad City co-creator Ilana Glazer.  —  The story of Internet phenomenon Brother Orange is getting the movie treatment.
Discussion: IndieWire and Fast Company
John Herrman / New York Times:
As Tronc embraces automated video production, CBS, Time, HuffPo, others experiment with it  —  In a television appearance in early June, Michael W. Ferro Jr., the chairman of the newspaper and magazine publishing company Tronc — formerly known as Tribune Publishing — made an astonishing claim.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Miami-Herald reorganized its beat coverage by topic instead of geography, with each team responsible for a beat functioning like an independent startup  —  MIAMI — On the outside, the headquarters of the Miami Herald looks like any building in any part of town filled with wide warehouses, beige office plazas and chain restaurants.
Discussion: @kristenhare and @poynter
Greg Dool / Folio:
Sources: Time Inc. laid off New York-based editors for HelloGiggles, a women's lifestyle and entertainment site it purchased last year, maintains sales team  —  HelloGiggles, the women's lifestyle and entertainment site purchased by Time Inc. last year, has laid off several editors in its New York office, according to multiple sources.
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Some creators accuse Buzzfeed Motion Pictures of stealing their ideas on YouTube, where remix culture has always thrived  —  “The Perfect Weekend for an Introvert” is far from perfect, technically.  The two-minute video, hot out of Buzzfeed's L.A. content mill, feels like a five-second joke stretched into 120.
Denise Petski / Deadline:
Melissa Harris-Perry Joins BET News As Special Correspondent  —  Melissa Harris-Perry is taking her next step post-MSNBC.  The former weekend show host has signed on to BET News as a special correspondent.  She will host and contribute to various BET News programs and develop longform news specials for the network.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. settles FTC charges over payments to PewDiePie, other influencers to promote game  —  Warner Bros. paid PewDiePie and other social stars upwards tens of thousands of dollars each to promote a 2014 game based on the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's “Lord of the Rings” …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Carrie Buddoff Brown is the new editor of Politico, replacing Susan B. Glasser who is moving to Jerusalem, confirms EIC John Harris in staff memo  —  Big news on the homefront.  Carrie Budoff Brown has been named editor of POLITICO.  Here's the memo just sent to staff from Publisher and Editor-in-Chief John Harris:
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Thomson Reuters to Sell Intellectual Property and Science Business for $3.55 Billion  —  Sale is part of the news and information service provider's attempt to stabilize its core businesses  —  Thomson Reuters Corp. on Monday said it agreed to sell its intellectual property and science business …
 
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks sharply increase prices for pool footage of government and political events; Washington Post proposes alternative pool for digital publishers
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox will live-stream its primetime programming on its website and Fox Now app, rolling out to 98% of pay TV subscribers, will require cable authentication
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
Andy McDonald / Digital TV Europe:
French OTT service Molotov launches app that allows viewers to watch and record live TV across devices, has signed deals with 33 free-to-air TV channels
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Zairah Khurshid / International Business Times:
Cliff Richard to sue BBC and South Yorkshire Police for £1m for televising police child abuse raid on his apartment, accuses them of “illegal collusion”
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New public editor says The New York Times needs to listen more to reader preferences, habits, and shifting ways of consuming information to expand audience
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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