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5:25 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 …
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 …
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:
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” …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: @gdnmobilelab
Sydney Morning Herald:
How China extends its control over almost all Chinese language media in Australia using a “carrot and stick” approach  —  Chinese-Australians call on government to see things their way  —  Local Chinese-Australian action committees have called on the Australian government …
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.”
 
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Boston Globe Media announces it is offering buyouts to Boston.com staffers
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