Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:40 AM ET, July 23, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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.
RELATED:
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:40 AM ET, July 23, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
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
TechCrunch:
Sources say Reddit's efforts to remake itself are faltering under CEO Steve Huffman and founder Alexis Ohanian's leadership as more key employees depart
 Earlier Picks: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court rejects Matthew Keys' plea to remain free while he appeals his convictions
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Memo: Al Jazeera to re-launch English-language digital streaming service in US in September
Discussion: The Drum
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page