Mediagazer: Sources: Discovery Communications in talks to combine with Scripps Networks Interactive, reviving merger discussions that were abandoned in 2014 (Wall Street Journal)

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BBC's list of 96 stars earning more than £150K shows little diversity with 34 females, six black or mixed race, and four Asians — Chris Evans has been revealed as the highest-paid BBC star, earning nearly £2.25 million in the last year. — The BBC has been forced to reveal …

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Discovery Communications in talks to combine with Scripps Networks Interactive, reviving merger discussions that were abandoned in 2014 — Media companies previously explored tie-up, but abandoned effort in 2014 — Discovery Communications Inc. DISCB 4.11% is in talks to combine …

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Google rolls out news feed in its iOS and Android search app, similar to Twitter and Facebook streams, aims to surface relevant content for users — Searching for relevance — Google today is rolling out its take on the news feed, a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other content.

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Sources: 21st Century Fox settled 1998 claim of sexual misconduct against then-Fox Sports chair David Hill, who left in 2015 but still produces events — 21st Century Fox paid off a woman who accused former top executive David Hill of sexual misconduct while he ran Fox Sports …

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Leon Lazaroff / TheStreet:

Facebook says it will start testing a subscription service with publishers in October, offering 10 articles free before prompting users to buy subscriptions — Facebook Inc's (FB) Campbell Brown says the world's largest social media platform has heard the cries of news publishers, and it's taking action.

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Jay Rosen / PressThink:

Why Trump's campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of his political style: display of dominance, the need for an enemy, his base loves it — Donald Trump's so-called “war with the media” is a good example of what philosophers mean by an over-determined effect: multiple causes …

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Even after Trump Jr.'s emails, President Trump's fake-news defense will persist because it works among Trump's base

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Daniel Funke / Poynter:

BuzzFeed launches 2-4 minute morning audio briefing, “Reporting to You”, for hands-free audio speakers like Amazon Alexa — Instead of waking up and checking their phones for the latest push notifications, newsletters or podcast episodes, BuzzFeed's audience can now just ask for the morning's top news.

Benedict Evans:

As tech platforms experiment with TV content, a look at how corporations controlling music and ebooks lost their strategic value to tech companies — People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer.

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