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12:55 AM ET, August 2, 2016

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Joshua Topolsky, co-founder of The Verge, raises $5M for new publication The Outline in round led by RRE Ventures, which will cover power, culture, the future  —  The Outline, backed by $5 million, will cover power, culture and ‘the future’  —  Joshua Topolsky is ready for his next act, and he's setting out to fix digital media.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News serves up 28 Million Facebook Live video streams during political conventions  —  Network's news division delivered total of 74-plus hours on social service, but it carried no ads  —  ABC News is touting huge reach beyond the TV from its deal with Facebook, delivering …
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YouTube party conventions statistics: 9M live viewers, averaging 25 minutes; RNC viewed 4.5M times, DNC, 4.6M; 217K peak for Trump, 250K for Clinton
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How journalists can stay impartial, give American voters the information they need in the lead-up to the presidential election  —  As the newly nominated presidential candidates plunge into the last 100 days of the campaign, news organizations might pause before they do the same.
Ruth Margalit / New York Times:
How Benjamin Netanyahu tries to control broadcast, print and online news in Israel, creating an atmosphere of intimidation in newsrooms  —  In its annual report released this spring, Freedom House, an American democracy advocacy organization, downgraded Israel's freedom of the press ranking from “free” to “partly free.”
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Adam Thomson / Financial Times:
Vivendi CEO hints he may walk away from a deal with Italy's Mediaset, concerned that growth projections for Mediaset's pay-TV unit are “unachievable”  —  Vivendi's chief executive has said his group's ambitions to become a media and content power house in southern Europe do not depend …
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
SEC Filing Reveals John Malone Backed Lionsgate Against Rival Bids for Starz  —  The two companies have unveiled the structure of the global content powerhouse intended with their $4.4 billion deal.  Lionsgate's SEC filing for its Starz merger, unveiled on Monday, reveals billionaire investor …
 
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Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
Purple, a text message-based news service that focused on national politics, will now distribute through Facebook Messenger instead of SMS
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How Vox Media's new Storytelling Studio thinks of stories as products
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Breitbart News tries to expand its audience beyond Trump fans by appealing to Bernie Sanders supporters
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Scripps-owned TV station WCPO in Cincinnati experiments with a full-fledged local digital news operation
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David Gelles / New York Times:
Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers
 

 
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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

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Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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