Mediagazer: Social media has shifted from a distraction where comedians found success to a political conversation where old jokes can lead to the end of careers (Julia Alexander/Polygon)

11:25 PM ET, July 31, 2018

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Google says it's working with news organizations, including ProPublica, to surface data from data journalism projects in search results — Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results.

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Julia Alexander / Polygon:

Social media has shifted from a distraction where comedians found success to a political conversation where old jokes can lead to the end of careers — How jokes became ammo during the social media platform's shift from distraction to political warzone — How do you make a dead baby float? You take your foot off its head.

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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:

For the past 19 months, renowned investigative journalist Bob Woodward has been quietly working on a book about Trump, due to be released on September 11 — In the worldwide capital of leaks and anonymous dishing that is Washington, secrets can be almost impossible to keep.

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Max Seddon / Financial Times:

28 staff members at Russia's edition of Forbes lobby to stop the appointment of a new editor and say the deletion of an article from print version violated law — Staff at Russia's edition of Forbes magazine are in open revolt against their publisher over claims of censorship and have appealed …

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Booth Moore / Hollywood Reporter:

Condé Nast CEO Bob Sauerberg says Anna Wintour is staying at the company, despite rumors she would retire amid company restructuring — The speculation is over, at least for now. — Will she or won't she? The fashion industry has been waiting with baited breath to see if Anna Wintour …

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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Blockchain journalism startup Civil and Splice Newsroom launch $1M fund with aim of creating 100 media startups in Asia over the next three years — Here's some news about tangible money. — Civil, the earnestly hopeful, sometimes scorned, promise-filled blockchain-crypto journalism startup that's managed …

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Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal:

Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi says its Q2 loss more than doubled to ~$316.9M on ~$932.5M revenue and reported 66.2M paid subscribers as of June 30 — Driving Baidu's growth is artificial intelligence — Baidu Inc.'s BIDU -1.68% revenue reached a record $3.93 billion in the June quarter …

Axios:

Sources: Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year, that will include market and global financial news updates — Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year, three sources familiar with the plans tell Axios.

Discussion: @stevekovach and @jasonabbruzzese

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

McClatchy Q2 earnings signal continued tough times for newspapers: loss of $20.4M on revenue of $204M, ad revenue falls to $107M from $125M last year — Unsurprisingly, McClatchy added a new chapter to the hard-luck story of the company and the legacy newspaper industry with its second quarter financial results, announced Friday.

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