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8:05 AM ET, July 29, 2019

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Associated Press:
Jair Bolsonaro raises the possibility of jail for Glenn Greenwald after The Intercept Brazil reports on the contents of a minister's hacked phone conversations  —  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president renewed his attacks on journalist Glenn Greenwald on Saturday, raising the possibility …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
NewsWhip data suggests publisher engagement on Facebook is rising with a dramatic increase in the number of native videos, but live video is in decline  —  It's not easy to get Facebook strategy straight when the only constant for publishers at the company is change, and a new report …
Max Londberg / Cincinnati Enquirer:
District court judge throws out defamation lawsuit by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post  —  Ted Sandmann, father Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, on why he wants doxing legislation to criminalize revealing a minor's identity online
Kara Swisher / Vox:
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on quarantining /r/The_Donald, a decision he says was intended to give the community a chance to change  —  /r/The_Donald was punished for hosting “violent content,” and Huffman isn't convinced the community's moderators are taking that problem seriously enough.
Jordan Orlando / New Yorker:
A eulogy for MAD Magazine, which subverted the comic form into a mainstream ideological weapon, aimed at icons of the left and the right  —  The California painter and critic Manny Farber extolled “termite art” as occurring “where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media is in talks to buy women-focused publisher Refinery29  —  Tie-up would unite women's-focused new-media company with one of its largest peers  —  Vice Media is in talks to buy women-focused publisher Refinery29, according to people familiar with the matter …
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
Macmillan says it will limit libraries to only one perpetual access e-book during the first eight weeks of a book's release starting November 1  —  More than a year after imposing a controversial four month “test” embargo on new release e-books in libraries from it's Tor imprint …
Pew Research Center:
Study of YouTube channels with 250K+ subs in early 2019: a small share produce most of the content, kids videos do very well, and most videos aren't in English  —  An analysis of every video posted by high-subscriber channels in the first week of 2019 finds that children's content …
Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Profile of Oliver Schusser, who spent 15 years at Apple building iTunes' worldwide operations from the ground up and took charge of Apple Music 15 months ago  —  From left: Jen Walsh, Schusser and Rachel Newman photographed on July 17, 2019 at Apple Music in Culver City, Calif.
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry  —  Famous Birthdays has become a go-to database of teen culture—and is ushering in a whole new generation of stars.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom: 49% of UK adults use social media for news while 49% get news from newspapers, websites, and apps; 38% of UK adults get their news from newspapers alone
Discussion: @iainmacwhirter
Omar Sanchez / The Wrap:
The top 2020 Democratic candidates have all been on podcasts; in the 2016 campaign, Trump did no podcast interviews
Discussion: @rjcc and Breitbart
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom: in the UK, people over 65 watch 33 minutes of TV news per day, while those under between 16 and 24 watch two minutes; 58% of the public watches BBC One
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Susan McKay / New Yorker:
The Incredible Life and Tragic Death of Lyra McKee
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Chuck Todd's tweet about the “optics” of Mueller's hearing not only reflects the goal of the hearing but recognizes the importance of political spectacle today
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Sling TV and Dish Network have dropped the Fox regional sports networks after a temporary extension expired without a deal
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Source: Dan Le Batard will have to check with higher-ups before talking politics; Pitaro's no-politics policy concerned changing viewer perception of ESPN
Dean Sterling Jones / BuzzFeed News:
Investigation finds dozens of cases of SEO consultants buying expired URLs linked to by major news sites, like the NYT, then redirecting them to clients' sites