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5:10 PM ET, July 27, 2017

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CNN:
New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci stirs up internal tensions after wrongly labeling a story on his finances a “leak” and a “felony”  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: NYT chief book reviewer and Pulitzer winner Michiko Kakutani is stepping down after nearly 40 years at the newspaper  —  Kakutani, who helped make the careers of writers from Foster Wallace to McEwan, and put fear in the hearts of Mailer and Vidal, will leave her post as one of the most formidable critics in the Times history.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
BuzzFeed's Tasty, which makes most of its money from branded sponsor videos, starts selling a $149 app-connected cooktop as it looks to broaden revenue sources  —  We need to talk about overhead instructional videos of people making food.  You know the ones I mean.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Facebook boosts quarterly advertising revenue to $9.2B with mobile accounting for 87%  —  Facebook increased its quarterly advertising revenue by 47 per cent year-on-year to $9.2bn, new financial results show.  —  Advertising made up 98 per cent of the social network's total revenues …
New York Times Co.:
The NYT passed 2M digital-only news subscriptions in Q2, with revenue up 9.2% to $407.1M, and ad revenue increasing for first time since Q3 2014, by 0.8%  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced today second-quarter 2017 diluted earnings per share …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NYT added 93K digital subscribers in Q2, down from net gain of 300K in Q1 but roughly the same as McClatchy's total paid digital subscribers for 31 news outlets
Discussion: Adweek and TVNewser
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Google plans to merge Google Play Music with YouTube Red to create a new streaming service, YouTube's head of music Lyor Cohen confirmed  —  One service to cover everything (almost)  —  YouTube's head of music confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music service …
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Sources: marijuana magazine High Times is preparing to file for an IPO; parent company Oreva Capital is selling the magazine for $250M  —  (Reuters) - The publisher of iconic marijuana enthusiast magazine, “High Times,” plans to take the company public in the fall, two sources familiar …
Amazon.com:
Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $38B, up 25% YoY, as net income drops from $857M to $197M YoY; AWS revenue rose 42% YoY to $4.1B  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2017.  —  Operating cash flow increased 37% to $17.9 billion …
Poynter:
Content analysis of Russia Today's FakeCheck shows it mixes dubious fact checks among legitimate ones, leading to unproven or poorly sourced conclusions  —  The number of fact-checking projects around the world is growing, but not every effort has been universally welcomed.
Discussion: @mantzarlis
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources describe Facebook's paywall plan: 10 free articles/month from a publisher before redirect to publisher's subscription site, with no cut for Facebook  —  Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't want publishers' data, either.  —  Facebook says it wants to help publishers sell subscriptions.
 
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DocumentCloud is transitioning out of IRE, backed by $250K grant from the Knight Foundation, and will ask news orgs using it to start financially supporting it
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Group Nine Media, parent company of The Dodo and NowThis, hires ex-Clinton assistant Press Secretary April Mellody as head of corporate communications
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter reports a profit of $139M in its Q2 earnings, with revenue up 4% to $10.4B, but continues to haemorrhage pay TV subscribers, losing 90K
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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

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

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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
 
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