Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:45 AM ET, August 1, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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 …
RELATED:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News Serves Up 28 Million Facebook Live Video Streams During Political Conventions
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Democratic convention broadcast and cable ratings: Clinton speech attracted 33.3M viewers, down from Trump's 34.9M and below 2012 and 2008 DNC numbers
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Interview with Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald on the DNC hack, WikiLeaks, and the media's potentially dangerous disdain for Trump  —  And in their rush to condemn Trump, are journalists betraying their values?  Glenn Greenwald says yes to both.  —  The release of hacked Democratic …
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
SEC Filing Reveals John Malone Backed Lionsgate Against Rival Bids for Starz  —  EMAIL ME  —  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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Scripps-owned TV station WCPO in Cincinnati experiments with a full-fledged local digital news operation  —  An editorial board.  An editor-in-chief.  A staff editorial cartoonist and a high school sports beat writer.  A revenue stream that combines both advertising dollars and subscribers.
Discussion: @meghanwesley and @cjr
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 …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 10:45 AM ET, August 1, 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: 
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
Discussion: @klingebeil
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Breitbart News tries to expand its audience beyond Trump fans by appealing to Bernie Sanders supporters
Discussion: Breitbart and VICE News
 Earlier Picks: 
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
36 media organizations to file amicus brief in support of Mark Boal's lawsuit to protect interviews with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from military court subpoena
Carey Dunne / Hyperallergic:
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
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Former Fox News booking agent and event planner Laurie Luhn says Roger Ailes sexually harassed her for over 20 years
 

 
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

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

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
 
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