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1:15 PM ET, July 17, 2019

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Kerry Flynn / Digiday:
Twitter releases LiveCut, a tool to help publishers make, monetize, and share video clips of live broadcasts, similar to SnappyTV, which Twitter bought in 2014  —  Twitter has a new tool to help publishers make more Twitter videos.  —  LiveCut lets publishers make, monetize and share video clips of live broadcasts through Twitter.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere  —  As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand.  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify  —  - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify  — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sony unites its recorded-music operation, Sony Music Entertainment, and its publishing company, Sony/ATV, under Sony Music Group led by SME chief Rob Stringer  —  Sony has created Sony Music Group, an umbrella for both its recorded-music operation — Sony Music Entertainment …
Discussion: Billboard
Max Willens / Digiday:
Bloomberg launches Work Wise, a newsletter with work and career content, after noticing 48% of traffic to its company pages came from people under the age of 34  —  Shortly after Julia Beizer joined Bloomberg Media as chief product officer last year, she had a conversation with David Harding …
Discussion: @juliabeizer and Bloomberg Media
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Group Nine's animal-focused publisher The Dodo debuts a children's vertical called Dodo Kids, with a brand-safe YouTube channel  —  The Dodo, a digital publisher owned by Group Nine that focuses on animal content, launched a new vertical called Dodo Kids.  —  The division will produce kid …
Discussion: Axios, @benjlerer and Tubefilter
April Ehrlich / Jefferson Public Radio:
Sinclair has invested in a small Oregon newspaper, which partnered with a Sinclair TV station to share content, a web management system, and soon, a building  —  America's biggest broadcast media company is financially backing the owner of the Rogue Valley's largest newspaper …
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway grilled a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity while defending Trump's racist statements about four congresswomen of color  —  When the quiet part becomes very loud.  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went as far as to grill a Jewish reporter …
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Former Bloomberg Media CRO Keith Grossman joins Time as president, reporting to Time editor in chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal  —  Exclusive: The former Bloomberg Media CRO also spent 5 months at Engine  —  Time, the nearly 100-year-old brand, is getting a new president.
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
US sports site The Athletic poaches Daniel Taylor from The Guardian and David Ornstein from the BBC, continuing its UK football journalism talent hiring spree  —  “It's a journalist transfer window.”  —  A US sports website that wants to dominate the British football market has made a series …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Facebook Journalism Project announces 22 projects receiving grants between $5,000 and $25,000 to fund community-building proposals over the next six months  —  In its latest quest to build community, Facebook is trying to develop a meta-community for local news publishers to then, you know, build that community.
BBC:
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis  —  The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
 
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter says Trump's racist tweets attacking four congresswomen don't break its rules and will not be labeled with a disclaimer