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6:40 PM ET, August 2, 2017

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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Politico published full transcript of WSJ's interview with Trump, after paper only ran excerpts; transcript shows friendly chat between Trumps, WSJ EIC Baker  —  The Wall Street Journal got a sit-down interview with the President of the United States on July 25 as he was engaged in a war …
Vicky Ward / HuffPost:
Fired White House comms chief Anthony Scaramucci speaks out about his rant to The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, claims “spirit” of the chat was off the record  —  Anthony Scaramucci tells HuffPost about the highs and lows of his fiery stint at the White House and what that cuss-filled rant was really about.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
HBO's security contractor says hackers stole “thousands of internal documents” in addition to episodes and have leaked personal info of a senior HBO executive  —  The HBO hack may have been worse than the initial leaks of a few unaired TV show episodes suggested.
BuzzFeed:
A look at MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin and NBC Nightly News writer Bradd Jaffy, who have amassed large Twitter followings by posting breaking news constantly  —  At 7:36 a.m. on May 18, Time executive editor Matt Vella tweeted the magazine's weekly cover, an image perfectly engineered …
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Trade group predicts US TV antenna sales will rise 7% in 2017 to nearly 8M units as millennial cord cutters discover free TV signals  —  Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Financial Times union members unanimously vote to strike if necessary in order to urge the news outlet to fix pay inequities  —  Journalists at the Financial Times have unanimously backed a union motion calling on management to “put its money where its mouth is” and fix the gender pay gap at the paper.
Facebook:
Facebook says it will start ranking faster loading web pages higher in News Feed over the coming months, warns that some sites could face a fall in traffic  —  We're always listening to our community to understand how we can improve their experience of News Feed.
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Trump has launched a news program, hosted by his daughter-in-law Lara and streamed via his Facebook page, promising “REAL news”  —  In one video, Lara Trump said she'd be back every week to provide updates on the president's accomplishments.  —  After months of denigrating …
Dolia Estevez / Forbes:
SEC filing: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim sold $10M worth of shares in the New York Times, a day after the paper posted Q2 earnings  —  Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú sold $10 million worth of shares in the New York Times, according to a report filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Discussion: The New York Observer
Lorraine Mirabella / Baltimore Sun:
Sinclair Broadcast meets Q2 targets with net income of $44.6M, vs $49.4M a year ago; CEO says Tribune Media acquisition is on track to close at end of year  —  Next generation TV is a priority for Christopher Ripley, Sinclair Broadcast Group's new president and CEO.  (Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun video)
Rafat Ali / Skift:
Lessons on Skift's fifth birthday: value curiosity, camaraderie, and consistency, ignore competitors, and keep things simple  —  “Great nations start stoic and die epicurean.”  Curiosity + Constraints, the Skift formula in the last five years.  —  29,334 stories, 88 research reports …
Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:
Inside the death of Sporting News, America's oldest sports publication, as UK owner Perform Media turns it into a marketing vehicle  —  Perform Group, a British media firm owned by Soviet-born billionaire  —  Len Blavatnik, took full ownership of Sporting News, the oldest sports publication in America.
Discussion: @iamjoonlee
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex brings its Live TV streaming service and DVR to Apple TV and Android, adds “time-shifting” feature to pause, rewind, and fast-forward through live TV
Diana Marszalek / Broadcasting & Cable:
Layer3 TV, available in Los Angeles, Chicago, DC, Dallas, Denver, and soon NYC, adds E.W. Scripps-owned Newsy Live, a news channel aimed at millennials
Discussion: Multichannel News
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon have suspended the accounts of a number of alt-right bloggers and personalities, causing a backlash and accusations of political bias
 Earlier Picks: 
Jessie Tseng / AAJA Voices:
AAJA: America's newsrooms on track to miss ASNE's new 2025 workforce diversity deadline; minorities to make up 39% of US, but only 17% of newsroom workforce
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Podcast network Gimlet Media raises $15M round led by Stripes Group, sources say at $70M post-money valuation and company to generate ~$15M revenue this year
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Sources: Snap has asked top US college newspapers to make campus editions for Snapchat Discover section, will share ad revenue with school or publication
Discussion: The Verge
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: SoundCloud to sell stakes to Raine Group, a boutique bank, and Temasek, Singapore's state investment firm, by end of this week
Washington Post:
How Facebook unevenly silences posts about discrimination, censoring important conversations, while often allowing blatantly racist content to remain