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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Apple Music buys 16 half-hour episodes of unscripted TV series Carpool Karaoke from CBS, which will be produced but not hosted by James Corden — Apple has emerged as the surprise buyer of the unscripted TV series based on the “Carpool Karaoke” segment of CBS' “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”
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Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider:
Tim Cook's comments during earnings call about TV could reignite speculation about Apple's longterm TV plans — Investors and Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to do something big with TVs. — Sure, Apple has sold the Apple TV box for years. But that box is really just a streaming box …
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Apple, @obrien and VentureBeat
Shannon McLaughlin Rooney / Temple University:
Aron Pilhofer, executive editor of digital for The Guardian, will take new endowed professorship at Temple University, funded in part by Wyncote Foundation — Aron Pilhofer, one of the world's most respected experts in the use of digital tools for journalism, is joining the faculty …
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@dlboardman, Philly.com, @pilhofer, @pilhofer and @jayrosen_nyu
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How New York Times' reporters use Stela, its in-house analytics dashboard — Over the course of the morning of July 8, a New York Times story about the shooting of police officers in Dallas changed headlines more than a dozen times — introducing the name of the suspected shooter …
Rene Rodriguez / Miami Herald:
How Fusion more than doubled revenues from 2014 to 2015, trimmed losses and changed focus to social issues as parent company Univision prepares for an IPO — Fusion Media Group launched in April 2016 — Its multi-platform endeavor now includes The Onion, The Root, The AV Club,The Flama and other popular sites
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@journalisthackr, @crainsmiami, @raju, @marisakabas and @felixgillette
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Guardian Media Group reports £209.5M revenue, down from £217.5M in 2015, total losses of £173M, says most digital ad growth has moved to Google and Facebook — Publisher faces tough print and digital ad markets as asset writedown leads to total loss of £173m for group
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Press Gazette, Politico, Guardian and @neilwallis1
Dave McNary / Variety:
Netflix, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to collaborate on film about Panama Papers, based on book by two German investigative journalists — Netflix is developing a movie about the Panama Papers scandal with John Wells and Claire Rudnick Polstein producing.
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The Wrap, FishbowlDC and Broadcasting & Cable
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter reports Q2 revenue of $602M, an increase of 20% YoY, 313M MAUs, up from 310M last quarter; stock drops 9%+ on low Q3 guidance of $590M-610M in revenue — Twitter today reported Q2 earnings, and the woe that is its poor user growth continues, with its 313 million monthly active users …
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VentureBeat, Forbes, Recode, Recode, Bloomberg, The Wrap, The Next Web, Talking New Media, GeekWire, VentureBeat, @pkafka, Bloomberg, @jandawson and ZDNet
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Alan Grayson threatened Politico reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere with arrest at Politico event, accused Dovere of assault after an attempted interview — The congressman was asked about accusations of domestic abuse. — Rep. Alan Grayson threatened to have a POLITICO reporter arrested Tuesday …
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@dylanbyers, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Heat Street, @wyshynski, LawNewz, Business Insider, The Week and Mother Jones
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Yahoo's writers, producers and other media staffers, including stars like Katie Couric and David Pogue, face uncertainty after Verizon deal — Yahoo spent millions of dollars to hire media all-stars like Katie Couric, Joe Zee and David Pogue. So what's going to happen with them now that Yahoo is being swallowed up by Verizon?
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Variety, Bloomberg, New York Times, FishbowlNY, Mashable, ClickZ, Heat Street, FOX40, CNN and Business Insider
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
NPR timidity in using the word “plagiarism” to describe Melania Trump's speech shows a weakness in journalism culture — NPR would not call it plagiarism when Melania Trump's speech to the Republican convention took passages from Michelle Obama.
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The Buttry Diary and @joshshepperd
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
5K of Vine's top 9725 accounts have stopped posting to the platform, and those that do frequently post to platforms like Facebook first; user growth is stagnant — Andrew Bachelor is the single most popular human on Vine, the Twitter-owned, short-form video network that was once described as the future of popular culture.
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