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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.
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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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 — Who are these hundreds of thousands of new digital subscribers The New York Times has added over the last year?
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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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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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 …
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Twitter's Q2 revenue of $574M beats expectations, but monthly active users remain flat at 328M; advertising revenue decreases 8% YoY to $489M; shares fall 8%+ — - Twitter posted better-than-expected EPS and revenue growth in its second-quarter earnings report.
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Senate Press Gallery rules vs. Constitutional protections after journalists were told to delete images and forbidden from taking photos of protesters — Protesters chanted in the Senate visitor galleries Tuesday as legislators prepared to vote to open debate on a bill repealing parts …
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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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