Mediagazer: 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 (Jem Aswad/Variety)

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.

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 and RAIN News

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 …

Discussion: Prolific North, @chrislepkowski, @alexwickham, Spectator, @markdistef, @mikelizun and @markdistef

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.

Discussion: MediaPost

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. …

Discussion: @nytimesbusiness, @joshspero, @nytimesbusiness and @kevinroose, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: @mathewi

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

Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:

Some staffers wrote First Look Media's board in protest after Topic Magazine's closing and The Nib's de-funding, amid rumors First Look bought Passionflix.com — Employees are worried that one of the nation's largest and most prominent left-of-center media companies, First Look Media, has lost its way.

Discussion: @davidsrudin, @charliearchy, @jlichman, @irin, @tomgara, @tomtomorrow, @86_rsk, @mikkipedia, @felixgillette and @petersterne

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 …

Discussion: @aprilehrlich, @aprilehrlich, @emilycureton, @carlschirps, @dana_flo and @aprilehrlich, Thanks:@morganatopb

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:

Interview with Politico's Daniel Lippman about why he's moving on from writing Politico's Playbook newsletter to report on the White House full-time — We talked with him about his new job reporting full-time on the White House and life in Washington. — Daniel Lippman will probably …

Discussion: @dlippman

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 …