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8:15 AM ET, June 14, 2017

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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 …
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.
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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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
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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Max Willens / Digiday:   Magazine publishers like Time and Condé Nast are turning to brand licensing as they try to recoup losses from declining print advertising revenue
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Source: NBC needs controversies like the Alex Jones scandal to shake up Sunday night ratings; they hired Megyn Kelly to create such buzz  —  As families of the Sandy Hook victims continue to pressure NBC to ax Megyn Kelly's Sunday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal:
Altice USA, the fourth-largest broadband provider in the US, prices IPO at $27 to $31 per share to raise ~$1.35B
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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
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Sun-Times has agreed with the Justice Department to extend the deadline for potential buyers to June 19
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares for $135 each, which would value it at almost $1.77T, eclipsing Aramco's $29.4B IPO in 2019

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed Muse Spark API's release from April due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta now says it plans to release the API in June

 
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