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12:40 PM ET, July 23, 2015

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Financial Times:
Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson  —  Henry Mance, Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan  —  Nikkei, Japan's largest media company, is to buy the FT Group from Pearson for £844m, bringing the curtain down on the UK-based company's 58-year ownership of the global news organisation.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
In 3 years, media will become wire services that operate across many platforms, gaining audience, but losing ability to create custom designs  —  Is the media becoming a wire service?  —  I'm going to make some predictions about the future of the media in this piece, and they come …
Associated Press:
Turkish journalist fired over anti-Erdogan tweet  —  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A prominent Turkish journalist has been fired by his newspaper over a tweet which suggested that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responsible for a suicide bombing this week that killed 32 people.
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Associated Press:
San Diego's Daily Transcript to close after nearly 130 years  —  1 photo  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Daily Transcript of San Diego said Wednesday it will publish its last edition Sept. 1, ending a nearly 130-year run in the newspaper business.  —  The newspaper is no longer viable due …
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple Music nightmare: adding music doesn't work as expected, lost access to 4,700 songs after turning off the service  —  ∞ Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it  —  I love Apple.  I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions.
James Kanter / New York Times:
E.U. Opens Antitrust Case Against Major U.S. Studios and Sky UK  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union's top antitrust authority on Thursday charged major American film studios and a television company in Britain with unfairly blocking access to movies and other content.
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Nick Denton will have a harder time under questioning in Hulk Hogan case due to the removal of recent Gawker story  —  Gawker's latest privacy scandal poses dilemma in $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuit  —  Nick Denton, who is named in a suit over a sex tape of Hogan posted by Gawker …
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
FTC investigation into Apple heats up, music streaming services hit with subpoenas  —  The FTC has launched an investigation into Apple's dealings with competing music streaming services in its App Store, according to multiple sources.  The investigation is targeting Apple's 30 percent fee charged …
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Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Sen. Al Franken, Consumer Watchdog ask regulators to investigate Apple Music for possible anticompetitive practices
Discussion: Consumerist, The Hill and The Verge
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Ohio's Richland Source diversifies its business model by selling locally produced apparel and ads on popcorn bags at local high school sporting events  —  Small-batch t-shirts and popcorn bags: How a local Ohio news site is diversifying its business model  —  Mansfield, Ohio's story is a common one.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2: profit up 7.3%, net income $2.14B, revenue up 11% to $18.74B on strong box office and broadband sales  —  Comcast Earnings Boosted by ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Furious 7’  —  Cable operator sheds fewer cable-TV customers, but broadband growth slows  —  Comcast Corp. 's second-quarter …
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Mail shares fall 11 per cent after poor advertising sales  —  Daily Mail and General Trust shares fell 11 per cent to a four-month low, after it became the latest newspaper publisher to be hit by falling UK advertising.  —  Advertising at its titles — including the Daily Mail …
Discussion: Telegraph and Reuters
Capital New York:
Keith Summa, senior VP of content innovation at Univision, talks about the network, Fusion, and the difference between the two  —  The 60-second interview: Keith Summa, senior V.P. of content innovation at Univision  —  CAPITAL: What's your game plan to increase the engagement …
 
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James Tarmy / Bloomberg Business:
Startup Verisart is trying to catalog every piece of art on the market, using blockchain, aims to enable buying and selling art digitally
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Spotify signs deal with electronic music site Beatport to bring over music and video content
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Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
The Irish Times asks for injunction to stop Murdoch's The Times from using similar name in its forthcoming Irish edition
Discussion: Guardian, Independent.ie and Guardian
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC plans to cut 40 London-based jobs from Factual and Daytime division
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Rupert Murdoch said to have asked Roger Ailes to back off Trump coverage, took to social media when Ailes refused
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to debut iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on October 28 and unveil a new iPad mini and Macs in late October; some could ship from November 1

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
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