Mediagazer: YouTube and music-licensing group ASCAP strike deal to share data to improve content ID system, potentially boosting revenue for music publishers, songwriters (Hannah Karp/Billboard)

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Reporters are told they can no longer film or record interviews in Senate halls of Capitol without special permission, then Senate Rules chair reverses course — Reporters covering the U.S. Senate were told Tuesday that they could no longer film interviews with senators in the hallways outside …

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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:

Memo: Time Inc announces it is cutting 300 jobs, 4% of workforce, with layoffs and buyouts — Time Inc (TIME.N) said on Tuesday it is eliminating 300 positions, or 4 percent of its workforce, through layoffs and buyouts, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Multiple brands suspend ads from Megyn Kelly's new show, Sunday Night, due to Alex Jones interview, but NBC News chairman Andy Lack says they'll return — Critics abound for Megyn Kelly interview with Alex Jones — Multiple advertisers have told NBC that they don't want to be anywhere …

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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

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

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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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:

Sources: layoffs coming to HuffPost newsroom this week, possibly as early as Wednesday, with no details yet on number of jobs affected — The cuts, which come as Verizon combines HuffPost's owner AOL with its new acquisition Yahoo, could happen as early as Wednesday.

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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 …

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Frank Chung / NEWS.com.au:

Australian free-to-air television broadcaster, Ten Network, enters voluntary administration after shareholders Murdoch, Packer, and Gordon end support — TROUBLED free-to-air broadcaster Network Ten has been placed into voluntary administration after its billionaire backers walked away.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

The New York Times begins using Alphabet's machine-learning powered Jigsaw to weed out toxic comments, increasing the number of articles that allow comments — Comments have seen better days. — In the last few years, several news organizations — NPR, Reuters and Recode, among them …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Q&A with Hanna Ingber, who runs the NYT's new Reader Center, on strategies for connecting with the Times audience, from SMS groups to showcasing reader voices

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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.

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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 …

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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.

Discussion: TVLine, Tubefilter, The Verge, Engadget, Variety and Hollywood Reporter

Hannah Karp / Billboard:

YouTube and music-licensing group ASCAP strike deal to share data to improve content ID system, potentially boosting revenue for music publishers, songwriters — ASCAP has a new plan to help its publishers and songwriters earn more money from YouTube: informing the video platform …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Tennessean.com, Tubefilter and Variety

Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal:

Altice USA expects IPO to price between $27 and $31 a share, to raise ~$1.35B — Altice USA put a price range of $27 to $31 a share on its initial public offering of stock.

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