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10:25 AM ET, June 25, 2018

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New York Times:
Interviews with about three dozen friends and colleagues of Ali Watkins and James Wolfe reveal tough ethical questions and ongoing concerns over records seizure  —  The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior.
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Apple:
Apple is launching a new 2018 Midterm Elections section in Apple News, offering exclusive features from Washington Post, Axios, and Politico  —  An Easy Way to Follow the Elections, With Reporting From Trusted Sources Curated by Apple News Editors  —  Cupertino, California …
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Glenn Beck's TheBlaze laid off more than a dozen employees as negotiations to sell the site to backers of The Daily Wire broke down  —  Conservative media firebrand Glenn Beck's multimedia empire TheBlaze appears to be on its last legs after another round of layoffs and after a prospective high-profile buyer lost interest.
Reuters:
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges  —  (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Monday it would buy online advertisement exchange company AppNexus Inc, less than a month after the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier closed its $85 billion deal …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Magazines President David Carey is stepping down from the role before the end of the year but will serve as chairman through 2019  —  ‘Eight or nine years is the right tenure,’ said David Carey, who has led publisher of titles including Cosmopolitan and Elle since 2010
The Daily Beast:
On Sunday, five major shows, including NBC's Meet the Press, had 12 headline guests, yet all were male and only one was Hispanic  —  After a week dominated by heart-wrenching stories of Hispanic children being separated from their parents at the border, the Sunday show lineup featured... remarkably few Hispanics.
Center for Cooperative Media:
Inside the collaboration by a community newspaper company, investigative nonprofits, and a university to investigate data behind high school sports concussions  —  John Schrag, the executive editor of a medium-sized group of community newspapers in Oregon, had known for a while about an unexamined pool …
Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Astroturfing of outlets like NYT and WaPo by a group funded by restaurant owners shows the need for journalists to dig deeper while covering activists  —  In editorials and juicy quotes to news organizations across the nation, restaurant workers are speaking up against paying tipped workers a minimum wage.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Discovery and German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 have invited German broadcasters to join their new streaming service and compete with Netflix  —  Discovery and German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 are pushing further into OTT, expanding their joint streaming service and targeting 10 million users within two years.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Microsoft and Ernst & Young announce blockchain-based content rights and royalties management network, first to be deployed for Microsoft's gaming partners  —  Blockchain might actually prove helpful for a change  —  In an effort to demonstrate there are actual uses for blockchain technology …
 
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Study: 8% of UK mobile sessions detected ad blockers, 5% in US, 13% in Germany; Le Monde says 20% of mobile sessions use ad blockers, a rate similar to desktop
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Instagram's IGTV had a chance to learn from the embarrassments of YouTube and Facebook, like conspiracy videos, but seems to have largely ignored the lessons
TechCrunch:
Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited, a $2.99/month subscription service of curated content for kids, launches on iOS
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Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:
Tumblr has agreed to cooperate with South Korean authorities to better monitor illegal porn distribution, Korea Communications Standards Commission says
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Amid the national furor over its child separation policy, the White House has not held a press briefing since Monday
Discussion: The Guardian and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
How tensions between Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and 21st Century Fox Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch have complicated Comcast's efforts to buy 21st Century Fox