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5:10 PM ET, June 25, 2018

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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 …
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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Raycom Media-owned local newspaper chain CNHI to explore sale of newspapers in 22 states after Raycom agreed to Gray Television group acquisition  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. - CNHI, LLC, one of the country's leading providers of local news and information, said Monday it is exploring the sale of its newspaper properties in 22 states.
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Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
Gray Television to buy Raycom Media in a cash and stock deal worth $3.65B; combined company will have 142 stations in 92 markets and reach ~24% of US households  —  (Reuters) - Gray Television Inc (GTN.N) said on Monday it would buy privately held rival broadcaster Raycom Media Inc in a cash …
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
CBS extends streaming rights deal with NFL to allow the network to stream Sunday games on CBS All Access to mobile, computers, and connected TVs through 2022  —  CBS has reached an extension of its NFL media-rights deal that will allow the network to stream games on mobile devices.
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
Danah Boyd / Medium:
Rebuilding trust in US journalism lies in creating business models that allow local journalism to profit without ROI pressure and are driven by social benefits  —  Loading...  30:58  —  For the second time in a week, my phone buzzed with a New York Times alert, notifying me that another celebrity had died by suicide.
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.
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David Beard / Poynter:
When Reveal tried promoting a story about a migrant center housing children on Facebook, Facebook labeled it a political ad and required Reveal to be registered  —  The Poynter Institute's Morning Mediawire breaks down and delivers the most important stories you need to start your day.
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New York Times:
Chinese authorities have blocked HBO's website after John Oliver mocked China's president Xi Jinping; HBO.com does not serve as a streaming portal in China  —  HONG KONG — Days after the comedian John Oliver mocked China's president, Xi Jinping, on his HBO program, the authorities in that country …
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.
 
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
In August, local Fox stations to air Phone Swap, a Vertical Networks dating show launched on Snapchat and averaging 10M viewers per episode across two seasons
The Guardian:
Brexit donor Arron Banks discussed using private investigators to dig up personal info on then BBC Newsnight Editor Ian Katz following story about his finances
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
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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
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Inside the collaboration by a community newspaper company, investigative nonprofits, and a university to investigate data behind high school sports concussions
 

 
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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused, and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding”

Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg:
The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with US companies building AI products
 
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