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11:35 AM ET, August 1, 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.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
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  —  YouTube today shared some numbers for the official livestreams of the Republican National Convention (RNC) and Democratic National Convention …
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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 …
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  —  Verizon Communications' $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads.
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
UK govt closes loophole which allows users to watch BBC iPlayer without paying TV license fee, costing BBC £150M a year, comes into effect on Sept 1  —  Government pushed through plan to close ‘iPlayer loophole’, which costs the BBC about £150m a year
Discussion: Engadget
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 …
Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
How Vox Media's new Storytelling Studio thinks of stories as products  —  When Hillary Clinton takes the stage in Philadelphia tonight to accept the Democratic nomination for president, it will be the peak of a lifetime spent in politics.  And over that lifetime, she's been the subject …
David Z. Morris / Fortune:
After reports about acquisition talks, Kanye West tweets a demand for Apple to write a check for Tidal now  —  Kanye West took to Twitter yesterday to issue an ultimatum—Apple needs to buy Tidal.  Now. … West is a co-founder of Tidal, along with Jay-Z and other high-profile artists …
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 …
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Breitbart News tries to expand its audience beyond Trump fans by appealing to Bernie Sanders supporters  —  Donald Trump is trying very hard to convert — though not exactly “woo,” strictly speaking — Bernie Sanders supporters.  He has tweeted about the runner-up in the Democratic presidential …
Discussion: Breitbart and VICE News
Guardian:
Turkish court detains 17 journalists until trial on terror group membership charges, frees four  —  State-run news agency says those charged have been remanded in custody after hearings at Istanbul court  —  A court in Istanbul has remanded 17 Turkish journalists in custody …
 
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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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Photographer Carol Highsmith sues Getty and Alamy for wrongly selling copyright licenses to over 18K+ photos she donated to the public, seeks $1B+ in damages