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9:30 AM ET, July 14, 2017

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Jonathan Handel / Hollywood Reporter:
NPR staffers weigh a possible strike vote as early as Friday night, while management takes a hard line in contract talks  —  Management says talks are “productive,” but the union decries an “odious” contract on offer.  —  Hollywood avoided potential strikes this year by writers and talent, but NPR may not be so lucky.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Leaked documents suggest that Robert Mercer and his family funded Milo Yiannopoulos following his resignation from Breitbart News  —  The Mercer family helped Donald Trump become President — and they appear to be funding the controversial Yiannopoulos.  —  Secretive hedge fund billionaire …
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Roku has hired IPO underwriters, and one source says it may file confidentially in the next few weeks, seeking a valuation of ~$1B  —  Streaming media player maker said to be seeking a valuation of roughly $1 billion  —  Roku Inc., which makes streaming media devices and software …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
BBC's partnership with CBS ends its deal with ABC, as CBS ends its deal with Sky  —  BBC News is ending its decades-long editorial partnership with ABC news to team up with rival CBS.  In a statement released Thursday, network executives celebrated the impact the partnership …
BuzzFeed:
In a familiar pattern, right-wing personalities and media spread false claims about a Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr., with one claim amplified by Trump  —  Pro-Trump media figures have gone as far as to falsely suggest that the Russian attorney may have planted a listening device for the Obama administration.
Alexandra Ellerbeck / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Recent US Senate report on leaks and national security used unscientific methodology, created false paradigm between national security and press freedom, more  —  Last week, Republicans on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released a report on leaks to the media.
Discussion: @pressfreedom
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Henry Blodget as Business Insider turns 10, on international expansion, subscriptions, video content, and more  —  “We are working in a medium, along with all of the other digital folks, in which you can tell stories in four different ways: words, pictures, video, audio.
Discussion: @kirkcheyfitz, @jbenton and @niemanlab
Gary Abernathy / Washington Post:
The editor and publisher of Ohio's Times-Gazette believes national news outlets take Trump's media broadsides too personally, abandoning fairness  —  Gary Abernathy is publisher and editor of the (Hillsboro, Ohio) Times-Gazette.  —  HILLSBORO, Ohio  —  Just like our larger media counterparts …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
HuffPost launches a 7-week, 23-city bus tour through Middle America to “learn what it means to be American today,” which sources say could cost $1M  —  Seeking a new direction, the site launches a 23-city bus tour to ‘listen to America.’  —  Having made its name as a home …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Streaming companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu snagged 162 Emmy nominations, almost a third of the total and the most ever awarded to tech companies  —  Streaming companies like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu snagged 162 Emmy nominations this year, almost a third of the total and the most ever awarded to tech companies.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Online publishers like LittleThings and Dotdash are eliminating obtrusive ads to to boost overall revenue and improve user experience  —  LittleThings and Dotdash say they're taking a ‘less is more’ approach with ads across their sites  —  For online publishers, more advertising typically means more revenue.
 
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Shareholder sues to stop Tribune Media-Sinclair deal, accusing Tribune of misleading stockholders and withholding information
Sami Main / Adweek:
Kevin Hart's LOL comedy network to launch streaming service Aug. 3; free app will offer a show per week with ads, $2.99 version will offer full seasons, no ads
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK press regulator Impress rules Byline Media must pay £2,500 to freelancer Dennis Rice because of a tweet deemed defamatory
Discussion: Guido Fawkes
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
Pinterest hires Jon Alferness and Meredith Guerriero, senior execs at Google and Facebook, to develop new ad formats and targeting
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Publishing industry veterans Jamie Raab and Deb Futter found a new division, Celadon Books, at Macmillan, focusing on fiction and nonfiction
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Sources: morale at SoundCloud sinks after layoffs, with those fired wondering why there was no warning; the firm says it's “fully funded into Q4”