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3:03 PM ET, July 31, 2017

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New York Times:
Sources: Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Scaramucci interview gives The New Yorker's website a huge traffic bump, with 4.4M unique visitors; subscriptions also up 92% over daily July average  —  Anthony Scaramucci's shocking interview with the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza has been a profanity-wrapped gift to Condé Nast.
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Hackers breach HBO's network and leak future episodes of Room 104 and Ballers, plus a script allegedly from next week's Game of Thrones episode  —  HBO chairman: ‘Disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us’  —  HBO has joined the ranks of Hollywood entertainment companies to suffer a major cyber attack.
David Lieberman / Deadline:
Discovery buys Scripps for $11.9B, in a 70% cash and 30% stock deal, and assumes $2.7B in Scripps' debt, to increase negotiating leverage with pay TV operators  —  The company behind Shark Week just caught a whale: Discovery Communications has agreed to pay $11.9 billion in stock and cash …
James Warren / Vanity Fair:
How the rivalry between The New York Times and The Washington Post has evolved in the Trump era, when some question basic notions of authority and fact  —  Breaking story after story, two great American newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, are resurgent, with record readerships.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Post-Gawker, fear is causing news outlets to self-censor and turn down stories, like one on R. Kelly that came from months-long probe but was rejected by 3 orgs  —  Call it the Gawker Effect.  —  After Jim DeRogatis, the veteran Chicago rock critic, reported for months on a stunning story …
Beth Rigby / Sky News:
FT journalists may strike over gender pay gap, as female staffers earn 13% less than males; paper's union says senior managers not taking issue seriously enough  —  Financial Times' journalists could strike over the gender pay gap at the newspaper amid fury that female journalists are being paid 13% less than male colleagues.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In Q&A, Splinter's Editor-in-Chief Dodai Stewart says the site is not the new Gawker and its entire purpose is to include underrepresented voices  —  Despite its edgy media criticism, its dishy stories and its pledge to publish journalism that “get(s) under your skin,” Splinter is not the new Gawker.
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Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications says it isn't interested in buying Sprint, rebuffing the merger offer and ending several weeks of deal talks between companies  —  Sprint had proposed a merger with Charter Communications to create a media and communications giant that would be controlled by Japan's SoftBank Group.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The San Diego Union-Tribune partners with GoFundMe to launch crowdfunding campaigns for the subjects of its articles  —  Earlier this month, The San Diego Union-Tribune launched an unusual experiment: asking readers to become small-scale philanthropists.  Partnering with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe …
Discussion: @melissagira
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Irish Sunday Times removes column by Kevin Myers that suggested two BBC presenters earn more because they are Jewish, says Myers will not write for them again  —  Kevin Myers, in Irish edition, suggested Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman earned more because they were Jewish
 
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