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7:20 AM ET, July 14, 2016

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Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Alan Murray, editor of Fortune, joins Time Inc as chief content officer, replacing Norman Pearlstine who is staying on as vice chairman — Alan Murray, the editor of Fortune, will succeed Norman Pearlstine as Time Inc.'s chief content officer, part of a broad reorganization of the company …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, New York Post, FishbowlNY, New York Times, Fortune, Politico, @nytimesbusiness, @matthewheimer, WWD, Media Wire Daily, @leenarao, @wfederman, @jeremymbarr, @johnnerkell, @djbentley, Poynter and @antderosa

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Time Inc. reshuffling elevates Rich Battista to president of all US brands, centralizes ad efforts, and creates dedicated digital ad sales team — Media veteran Rich Battista tapped as president of U.S. brands — Time Inc. Chief Executive Joe Ripp has reorganized the country's biggest …

Discussion: Adweek, Variety, New York Post, Ad Age and Deadline

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

With the police shootings and subsequent violence in Dallas last week, livestreaming had its Gulf War moment, emerging as a viable alternative to cable — Cable news has functioned as the harrowing background soundtrack to much of 2015 and 2016. In covering terrorist attacks …

Discussion: @ninabernstein1, Stratechery, @jonsteinberg, FierceOnlineVideo News, @fmanjoo, @corybe and Recode

CNN:

Sources: Fox News host Sean Hannity provided private jet to fly vice president finalist Newt Gingrich to meet with Trump — (CNN)Newt Gingrich, a finalist on Donald Trump's vice presidential shortlist, flew to Indianapolis to meet with Trump on a private jet provided by Fox News host Sean Hannity …

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Luke Russert, son of Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, is leaving NBC News, says he is taking time away from political reporting to focus on other interests — Luke Russert is leaving NBC News this week, the network announced on Wednesday. — Russert, son of the late “Meet the Press” …

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Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:

BitTorrent to launch live-streamed TV news network on July 18 at the Republican National Convention as part of broader effort to become a video content company — Last week, BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file-sharing program announced it was hiring a news director, former CNN …

Discussion: The Official BitTorrent Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Broadcasting & Cable and Variety

Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:

News Corp. in talks with Facebook about expanding relationship but remains wary of Facebook Live, Instant Articles, preferring total control over audience data — News Corp. said in talks with Facebook though nothing imminent — ‘Panic and pandering’ isn't a strategy: News Corp. executive

Discussion: @tomgara, @gerryfsmith, @glynmoody, @carlquintanilla and NewsWhip

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Virtual And Augmented Reality Investments Up to $2 Billion Over Last 12 Months — Augmented and virtual reality startups are continuing to attract big bucks from investors. Collectively, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) companies have closed funding rounds totaling $2 billion …

Discussion: Digi-Capital and Fast Company

Hadas Gold / Politico:

C-SPAN partners with Facebook Live to stream evening proceedings at RNC, DNC; FB also partners with 21 news organizations for the conventions, including CNN — In what's expected to be two of the most fascinating political conventions in recent history, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton set …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, @mattnavarra, @alexweprin and FishbowlNY

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Viacom in talks to sell 49% of Paramount to China's Wanda Group, wants deal that values Paramount at $8B-$10B, is also in talks with undisclosed suitor — Hurdles remain before any deal with Dalian Wanda Group gets completed — Viacom Inc. is in talks to sell a 49% stake …

Discussion: Variety, Fortune, The Verge, Reuters, @miriamgottfried and USA Today

Todd Spangler / Variety:

ABC Relaunches Free Streaming Service With 7 Short-Form Originals, Full Seasons of 38 Older Shows — Network makes live stream available in 14 additional markets in pact with Hearst — ABC is not going down the subscription VOD route, at least for now: The Alphabet network is relaunching …

Discussion: The Wrap, Recode, Home Media Magazine, @joshruben, Fortune, @pkafka, Adweek, Engadget, TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, Consumerist and FishbowlNY

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Apple puts out open casting call for app creators for reality show “Planet of the Apps”, sheds more light on the series — Earlier this year it was announced that Apple was planning to launch its first original TV series about the “app economy.”

Discussion: Variety, Ryan Hoover, TechCrunch, Daily Mail, The New York Observer, Quartz, The Next Web, Polygon, @bzamayo, Consumerist, Fortune, Engadget, Business Insider, Guardian, MacStories and The Verge

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Associated Press:
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Sasha Koren / Medium:
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
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Akilah Hughes:
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John Koblin / New York Times:
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Sheldon Whitehouse / Columbia Journalism Review:
Barrage of opinion pieces against fossil fuel industry probe requires critical scrutiny to differentiate between honest opinion and industrial-scale propaganda

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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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