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4:05 PM ET, June 13, 2017

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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Reporters are told they will no longer be allowed to film or record audio of interviews in the Senate side hallways of the Capitol without special permission  —  Reporters at the Capitol are being barred from filming hallway interviews with senators unless they get permission from the senator and a committee.
Bloomberg:
Verizon officially closes the $4.5B Yahoo deal; combined assets form a Verizon unit called Oath led by Tim Armstrong, as Marissa Mayer steps down  —  Combined assets form Verizon unit called Oath led by Armstrong  —  Yahoo is renamed Altaba with Thomas McInerney named CEO
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New York Times:
Condé Nast is closing Style.com, its first major experiment in online fashion retail, nine months after its launch; the site will redirect to Farfetch  —  Condé Nast, the publishing giant that owns magazine titles like Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair, is closing its first major experiment …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The NYT is teaming up with Alphabet's Jigsaw to expand its comments, using Perspective, an algorithmically-driven application, to weed out toxic comments  —  Comments have seen better days.  —  In the last few years, several news organizations — NPR, Reuters and Recode, among them …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post launches The Lily, its new distributed media brand for millennial women, available on Medium, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter  —  The Washington Post may be best known for its award-winning journalism, but it wants its new distributed media brand for millennial women, The Lily, to stand out for its design.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The mainstream media shouldn't try to shield its audience from Alex Jones or pretend he doesn't exist; it should interrogate him  —  Last Sunday night, as the second episode of her new NBC newsmagazine show was wrapping up, Megyn Kelly ran a short teaser for next week's highly anticipated interview …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
NBC should drop Megyn Kelly's one-on-one interview with Alex Jones and use the material as one piece of a serious investigation of him and others like him
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Fraternity chapter at University of Virginia plans to settle its defamation suit against Rolling Stone for $1.65M  —  A Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter announced Tuesday it plans to settle a lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in a defamation case involving allegations — later debunked …
Hollywood Reporter:
Facebook greenlights reality TV series Last State Standing and scripted comedy Loosely Exactly Nicole, in bid to lure viewers to its video tab  —  From ‘American Ninja Warrior’ producers A. Smith and Co., the reality show is the social media giant's second original series.
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Sun-Times has agreed with the Justice Department to extend the deadline for potential buyers to June 19  —  The Chicago Sun-Times has agreed with the Department of Justice to extend the deadline for potential buyers at least one more week.  —  The Sun-Times has agreed with the Justice Department …
Discussion: @raylong
Nikkei:
The Japan Times, a 120-year-old English-language daily newspaper, has been sold to Tokyo-based PR company News2u  —  Death of autoparts maker's US-educated founder paved way for sale of English paper  —  TOKYO — Japanese autoparts maker Nifco has decided to sell The Japan Times …
Discussion: @tokyofashion, @martfack and @stanyee
Alexandraek / Reporters Without Borders:
Sources: a court in southeastern Turkey has convicted an ISIS member of murdering Syrian journalist Naji Jerf in Gaziantep in December 2015  —  Organisation  —  RSF_en  —  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has learned that a court in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The Guardian and Observer will relaunch in a tabloid format in 2018, have contracted with Trinity Mirror for printing; London presses will be sold or scrapped  —  Newspapers to move to smaller size and outsource printing to Trinity Mirror as part of three-year cost-saving plan
Discussion: @theowentake and @cusackandrew
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Source: J.P. Morgan Chase to remove all ads from NBC News over Megyn Kelly's interview with InfoWars' Alex Jones until after episode airs  —  So far, advertisers—with one notable exception—have remained quiet as Sandy Hook families criticize the NBC host for her sit-down with the Infowars founder
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
‘Facebook is only half in’: Creators doubt Facebook's commitment to original programming  —  Publishers are happy to take Facebook's funding for original video programming, but several existing and potential content partners expressed doubts that the company is committed to short-form shows for the long run.
Discussion: Fortune and Variety
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Fox has started offering a national, 24-hour feed on Hulu in 70+ markets where it hasn't made streaming agreements with local TV affiliates  —  Fox is turning up the heat in a fight with its TV station affiliates over how to bring its programming to streaming-media consumers with a 24-hour feed …
Discussion: CNET and @edmundlee
 
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