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1:25 PM ET, July 12, 2018

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Lukas I. Alpert / @lalpert1:
Sources: Bustle owner Bryan Goldberg wins bankruptcy auction for Gawker.com  —  Bustle Owner Bryan Goldberg Wins Bankruptcy Auction for http://Gawker.com - Sources w/@sparkyrandles Story TK.
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Ryan Holiday / The New York Observer:
As the Gawker domain and archives go up for auction on Thursday, a look at the ins and outs of the auction and the site's potential future  —  On Thursday, July 12, a locker containing the bones of Gawker.com—killed in action, as it were, for its publication of a fully nude sextape …
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Dan Rather, who found a large Facebook audience and appeared on digital newscasts for The Young Turks and Mark Cuban after leaving CBS in 2006  —  Editor's note: This is the second interview in an occasional series of journalists on journalism.  Read the first, with Seymour Hersh.
BBC:
UK government clears a proposed deal for 21st Century Fox to buy Sky if it sells Sky News  —  The UK government has cleared a proposed deal for Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox to buy Sky.  —  The British broadcaster has been the subject of a fierce bidding war between Fox and US cable giant Comcast.
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Next week, YouTube will roll out Copyright Match, which scans uploaded videos and notifies original creators with 100K+ subscribers if a video is a copy  —  YouTube is releasing a tool for creators that checks to see if their videos are being stolen.  Now, every time a video is uploaded to YouTube …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards  —  Parents of Sandy Hook victims sue Alex Jones  —  Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars …
Discussion: @oliverdarcy
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
A look at PressPad, which aims to match people who get journalism internships in London, but can't afford housing, with an industry host  —  It's a longstanding quandary for aspiring journalists: How can I get housing in the big city for just a few weeks, while I'm paid nothing or close to it?
Stefanie Fogel / Variety:
Blizzard Entertainment announces exclusive multi-year agreement for live TV coverage of its professional esports league for Overwatch with ESPN and Disney  —  The Overwatch League quarterfinals start Wednesday, July 11 at 8 p.m. ET and fans can now watch all of the action on ESPN, Disney …
 
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Reuters:
Sources: Apollo Global Management has approached Nexstar, which owns TV stations that reach nearly 40% of US households, to express interest in acquiring it
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Weinstein Co. lays off over 20 employees of a remaining staff of 70 two days before it plans to close its $289M bankruptcy sale to Lantern Capital
Discussion: The Wrap
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube TV went down during a crucial World Cup match, the second such outage since it went down during an NBA game in May
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook will roll out news shows for Facebook Watch from July 16, with the lineup including shows from CNN, Fox News, Quartz, Bloomberg, Univision, ATTN:, Mic