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12:40 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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.com and Fast Company
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
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.”
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 …
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 …
Sasha Koren / Medium:
Guardian details its experiments with five types of lockscreen notifications on Androids, plans to move to iOS next  —  How the Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab has experimented with telling stories in web notifications.  —  At the end of last week, we (the Mobile Lab) all turned to look at each other.
 
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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
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