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5:10 AM ET, June 23, 2017

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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Journalists condemn White House ban on video at press briefing as WHCA President Jeff Mason says the group is working on the issue  —  “They don't want the American public to see this live,” CNN's Wolf Blitzer said as video coverage is again barred.  —  Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee …
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Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Blog:
At VidCon, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announces 1.5B logged-in viewers visit YouTube each month, says YouTube TV will expand to 10 markets, and more  —  I just got off stage after a great conversation with Rhett and Link at VidCon, where we announced a number of exciting new updates.
Katrina Manson / Financial Times:
Group of Arab states tells Qatar to close state-owned Al Jazeera and all affiliated channels as part of a list of demands to be met in 10 days  —  Read next … Kuwait has passed on a list that gives Qatar 10 days to comply with a series of demands from the Arab states that cut ties with it more than two weeks ago.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars  —  Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others?  Good question.  —  Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reuters report: ad blocking growth stalls, 18% of 18-24-year-olds in US pay for online news, 33% of same age globally use social media as their main news source  —  The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises.  —  The United States recently elected an unusual president.
Liz Pelly / CASH Music:
How some popular Spotify playlists in its Browse section are controlled by a small group of firms, some owned by big labels, making or breaking upcoming artists  —  Not all Spotify playlists are created equally.  To begin understanding this, look at them closely.  Literally.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO  —  As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
The gunman motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, Edgar Maddison Welch, gets four years in prison  —  The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in in prison Thursday.
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
The Washington Post launches ModBot, a proprietary tool that uses machine learning to moderate comments  —  The Washington Post has launched ModBot, a software application that utilizes artificial intelligence to moderate comments.  The proprietary technology uses machine learning …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and @gjbarb
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge eyes Atlanta's Cox Communications as acquisition target, but Cox has long said it's not interested in a sale  —  The upcoming season for cable TV could see yet another merger.  —  Charter Communications — the nationwide cable giant whose …
Discussion: BGR, Consumerist and TVWeek.com
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican coal baron Robert Murray is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight  —  A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A civil case from Murray Energy in a New York appeals court is testing whether the state's shield law protects small, subscriber-based news organizations
 
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Yahoo's News Digest app, which delivered news updates twice daily, to shut down June 30
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Sources: conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt will host a live half-hour show on MSNBC, airing Saturdays at 8am and beginning this week
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge:
Tumblr, known for its activism on internet issues like net neutrality and the SOPA/PIPA fight, may change to be less outspoken, now that it's owned by Verizon
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency
 
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