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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” — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director …
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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 …
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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.
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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 — One service to cover everything (almost) — YouTube's head of music confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music service …
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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 — Who are these hundreds of thousands of new digital subscribers The New York Times has added over the last year?
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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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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 …
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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 — (Reuters) - The publisher of iconic marijuana enthusiast magazine, “High Times,” plans to take the company public in the fall, two sources familiar …
Austen Hufford / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2 earnings: cable revenue rises 5.5% to $13.12B but the company lost 34K subscribers, up from 4K in Q2 2016, with cable ad revenue down 0.9% to $906M — Results boosted by success of ‘The Fate of the Furious’ — Comcast Corp.'s CMCSA -1.01% entertainment unit surged in the second quarter …
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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.
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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.
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