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9:15 AM ET, July 28, 2017

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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Scaramucci ranted to me about a leak of dinner with Hannity and Bill Shine, a report about his financial disclosures, Priebus, Bannon, and leakers in general  —  He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff.  It escalated from there.
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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”  —  Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director who was brought in to bring order to a press shop …
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.
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 …
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Pulitzer-winning reporter James Risen is taking a buyout from The New York Times after nearly two decades  —  The high-profile reporter is taking a buyout as the paper reorganizes its newsroom.  —  Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen is leaving The New York Times after nearly two decades …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Emerson Collective, founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, agrees to acquire a majority stake in The Atlantic, with full ownership possible in the coming years  —  Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in The Atlantic magazine …
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.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt is likely to get her own two-hour show on Sunday evenings  —  MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt is likely to get her own show on Sunday evenings, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell POLITICO.  —  The deal is not done yet and the show does …
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Watchdog group American Oversight files FOIA lawsuit after FCC stalls in releasing communications with ISPs about net neutrality  —  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is being sued over its failure to adhere to a federal transparency law and for wrongfully withholding agency records about net neutrality from the public.
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  —  Who are these hundreds of thousands of new digital subscribers The New York Times has added over the last year?
Discussion: Adweek and TVNewser
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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%
 
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
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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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
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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
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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From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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