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8:05 PM ET, July 22, 2016

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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
WSJ reporter Maria Abi-Habib: DHS detained me and asked for my phones at the border checkpoint at Los Angeles airport  —  On Thursday, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter claimed that the Department of Homeland Security demanded access to her mobile phones when she was crossing the border at the Los Angeles airport.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Republican convention broadcast and cable ratings: Trump speech attracted 31.5M viewers, slightly ahead of Romney in 2012, but less than McCain had in 2008  —  Updated numbers have the GOP candidate's speech on par with the 2012 — with CNN scoring a high for RNC coverage.
Matthias Verbergt / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify launches programmatic ads, lets advertisers target its 70M nonpaying users by age, gender, genres, and playlists globally  —  STOCKHOLM—Swedish music-streaming company Spotify AB on Wednesday launched programmatic ad buying for all its markets, allowing advertisers to target …
Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog:
Google Play Books debuts Bubble Zoom, which uses machine learning to detect and expand speech bubbles in comic books, starting with some Marvel and DC volumes  —  Whether it's reading up on the origins of Justice League or enjoying a reboot like Invincible Iron Man, we all love our heroes …
Ignacio Carvajal / Yahoo:
Crime reporter in Veracruz, Pedro Tamayo Rosas, gunned down in front of family; eight officers testify in the investigation over allegedly slow police response  —  Coatzacoalcos (Mexico) (AFP) - Eight Mexican police officers appeared before investigators Thursday to testify over the murder of a journalist …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
BBC iPlayer Radio app for iOS and Android now available to people in the US  —  BBC does radio well, and now Americans can experience the full effect of the UK broadcaster's audio content expertise with the iPlayer Radio app foriOS andAndroid.  The app contains all of BBC's radio feeds …
David Agren / Guardian:
Mexican journalist Carmen Arestegui and Penguin Random House sued by reporter's former employer MVS Radio in bid to ban book exposing presidential scandal  —  La Casa Blanca de Peña Nieto based on exposé that revealed Mexico's first lady bought $7m mansion from contractor with links to her husband, the president
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T adds 342K DirecTV subscribers in Q2, loses 391K U-verse subscribers, net loss of 49K video customers  —  It's been a year since AT&T closed its deal for DirecTV, and the telco's top brass are pleased with the progress in assimilating the satellite operator into its fold.
Joseph Watts / London Evening Standard:
Oona King leaves UK politics to join YouTube as global director of diversity  —  Labour peer Oona King is leaving UK politics to take a top job at YouTube in San Francisco, claiming that the “desperately sad” state of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party made her decision easier.
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Profile of Meredith McIver, the in-house writer at the Trump Organization who took responsibility for plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech  —  CLEVELAND — In her mid-30s and slowed by injuries, Meredith McIver, a classically trained ballerina who had danced under the limelight with Balanchine …
21st Century Fox:
Roger Ailes resigns as chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network; Rupert Murdoch to be chairman and acting CEO of Fox News, Fox Business  —  Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network  —  21st Century Fox today announced …
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Rupert Murdoch and his sons pressured Roger Ailes to resign after allegations of sexual harassment; his $40M+ exit payout includes advising Rupert Murdoch
 
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