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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.

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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

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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

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Sources: Hillary Clinton to address joint National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Friday — On Friday, Clinton will address NABJ and NAHJ, multiple sources confirm to BuzzFeed News. — Hillary Clinton will address …

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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 — Verizon Communications' $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads.

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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