Mediagazer: 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 (Jasper Jackson/Guardian)

4:45 PM ET, July 27, 2016

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Alex Spence / Politico:

Sources: 268 employees have accepted buyout offers from the Guardian, including 70 in the newsroom, in latest round of cost-cutting — LONDON - A cluster of senior figures are leaving the Guardian as it grapples to stem mounting financial losses. — Prominent journalists including Middle …

Discussion: @joepompeo, The Wrap and FishbowlNY

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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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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Reuters:

Turkey detains 47 journalists in crackdown on suspected supporters of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of masterminding failed coup — Turkey ordered another 47 journalists detained on Wednesday, part of a large-scale crackdown on suspected supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric …

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The Times of Israel:

Turkey shutters dozens of news outlets in media crackdown — Turkey sacks 149 generals and admirals (out of 358) and thousands of officers over coup charges. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern at the Turkish government's restrictions on individual rights under the state …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tumblr launches ads on all users' blogs Thursday, will unveil revenue program for partners later in 2016; users can opt out of ads on their blogs — Tumblr this week quietly announced plans to roll out a new advertising program across its site which will see it implementing ads across users' blogs.

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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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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

Alex Spence / Politico:

French newspaper Le Monde says it won't publish pictures of terror attackers to avoid giving perpetrators “posthumous glorification” — After the killing of an elderly priest at a church in northern France, Le Monde has called for the media to rethink the way it covers such attacks to avoid ‘glorifying’ the perpetrators.

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Erin Griffith / Fortune:

BuzzFeed beefs up its translation team, capitalizing on stories across foreign bureaus; translations make up 30% to 40% of content in international editions — It's well-known by now that media startup BuzzFeed has opened news bureaus in ten countries. But those bureaus …

Alan Huffman / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at self-trained local freelancer and photojournalist Abdel-Kader Fassouk, after his death in Libya last week — Abdel-Kader Fassouk (center) with anti-ISIS fighters in Sirte, Libya, moments before he was killed. (Photo by Andre Liohn) — The killing of a young Libyan photojournalist …

Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg:

Sources: owners considering selling SoundCloud, hoping for a $1B valuation of the company — Founders and investors are weighing options, including a sale — German firm so far hasn't found buyer at sufficient price — SoundCloud Ltd.'s owners are considering a sale that could value …

Discussion: RAIN News, @shiraovide, Digital Music News and Engadget

Sahil Patel / Digiday:

ABC News, CNN, and The Huffington Post are among the publishers producing virtual reality content at the presidential conventions — Live video might be all the rage during this year's presidential conventions, but a few publishers are taking it a step further by producing virtual reality and 360-degree videos from the events.

Discussion: Variety, @niemanlab, CNN - Facebook, Facebook and CNN Politics

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