Mediagazer: The Washington Post launches The Lily, its new distributed media brand for millennial women, available on Medium, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

3:05 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

Discussion: Marissa's Tumblr, TechCrunch, Adweek, The Wrap, NPR, The Drum, Business Insider, Axios and Mashable, more at Techmeme »

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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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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Nieman Lab, Recode, Wired, CNNMoney, @benmullin, @jeffjohnroberts, Fortune, @madalinacrc, Mashable and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

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

Discussion: @porter_anderson, @lauraelizdavis, @daviduberti and @hannaingber

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.

Discussion: @sulliview, The Lily, The Edwardsville Intelligencer, The Business Journals and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: @brianstelter, Mediaite, Washington Post, @mattdpearce, @braddybb, The Outline, @cwarzel, @jbillinson, @buzzfeedben, The Daily Caller, HuffPost, @mattdpearce, @spacekatgal, The Wrap, The Week, ThinkProgress and Media Matters for America

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

Discussion: @megynkelly, The Wrap, @davidfolkenflik, Deadline, @oliverdarcy, Business Insider, Variety, @sulliview, @bterris, @kristinegwp, @lpolgreen, @alyonamink, @mattdpearce, @markberman and @dylanbyers

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, WSET-TV, The Daily Beast, @wpnick, @sonnybunch and Fox News

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

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: @cusackandrew

Salman Masood / New York Times:

Pakistan court sentences man to death for committing blasphemy in posts on Facebook and WhatsApp, in a first for the country — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a Shiite man to death for committing blasphemy in posts on social media.

Discussion: Agence France-Presse, @ffrf, TechCrunch, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera English, NPR, iDrop, The Verge and The Daily Caller

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: @stanyee, @tokyofashion and @martfack

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 …

Hollywood Reporter:

Sources: Facebook is near a deal to revive Loosely Exactly Nicole, canceled after one season on MTV, in its push to bulk up original video programming — ‘Loosely Exactly Nicole’ was canceled after one season on MTV, but the social media giant is near a deal to revive it for a second season.