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11:45 AM ET, July 31, 2017

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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Discovery buys Scripps for $11.9B, in a 70% cash and 30% stock deal; it is expected to boost the combined company's negotiating leverage with pay TV operators  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Discovery Communications Inc is acquiring Scripps Networks Interactive Inc for $11.9 billion in a deal expected …
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 …
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.
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
Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
Putin signs law banning services like VPNs that are used to access censored sites; the law takes effect from November 1  —  An app to get around firewalls  —  Russia is cracking down on software that allows users to view internet sites banned by the government.
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Apple removes all major VPN apps from the App Store in China; the apps allowed users to bypass China's internet censorship
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.
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 …
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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.
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.
Katherine Goldstein / Nieman Reports:
To attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of parents with young kids and create better work-life balance for everyone  —  If news organizations want to attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of parents with young children …
Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Current and former MSNBC employees say surging prime-time ratings in the age of Trump has complicated Andrew Lack's centrist vision for the channel  —  When MSNBC announced in late June that conservative commentator Bret Stephens would begin appearing on the network as an on-air contributor, progressives pounced.
 
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Aimee Ortiz / New York Times:
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