Top News:
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN is launching CNN Business this fall, consolidating CNN Money, CNN Tech, and CNN Media, will expand tech coverage from SF bureau, plans new streaming service — CNN is launching a new business website and expanding its technology coverage, part of a broader restructuring …
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Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
Charles Lewis / The Conversation:
The pace of nonprofit media growth has picked up since 2010: Shorenstein Center study shows 6,568 foundations gave nonprofit media $1.8B between 2010 and 2015 — The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million.
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@janebsinger and @mcnisbet
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Fifteen months after launch, traffic and donations at WikiTribune are low, its editor Peter Bale has left, and the majority of stories are written by staff — “'Leadership structure' isn't a very Wiki phrase.” — On June 30, a spam article was posted to WikiTribune, Jimmy Wales' news startup that argued …
Nick Cohen / The New York Review of Books:
The BBC has failed to cover the legal and political scandals behind the Brexit Leave campaign, seeming to prefer to reflect the national mood and not the facts — Late last year, BBC executives had the nerve to erect a bronze statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters in central London.
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@mattseaton, @sdchamp, @campbellclaret and @ottocrat
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards — Parents of Sandy Hook victims sue Alex Jones — Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars …
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Christine Wang / CNBC:
Court filing: Justice Department will appeal Time Warner-AT&T merger approval — The Justice Department will appeal the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval, according to a court document filed Thursday. — Shares of AT&T slipped 1 percent in after-hours trading Thursday.
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Washington Post:
The Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun to receive help from volunteer journalists from across the country at least through the end of summer — By Allison Klein July 10 Email the author — Journalism is a competitive field. Getting the story first and right is gold.
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Susan Reimer
Emily Feng / Financial Times:
How Chinese state media spreads its message via 200 nominally independent Chinese language publications around the globe — The latest issue of the UK-Chinese Times, one of the mainstays of Britain's nearly 400,000-strong Chinese-speaking community, splashed on the House of Fraser's plan …
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Fortune
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: holding company owned by Bustle and Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg wins Gawker in bankruptcy auction, beating Didit Inc; opening bid was $1.13M — Holding company owned by the founder of Bleacher Report and Bustle has been picked as the successful bidder for Gawker
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Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Non-white reporters covering US protests say they face additional risks of pepper spray, arrests, and strip searches because police can see them as protesters — “I was just another in a sea of black faces on the other side of a police line," said Christian Gooden, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer …
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@teakphillips, @stephanie_alena and @stephanie_alena
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix, with 112 Emmy nominations this year, breaks HBO's 17-year streak of getting the most nominations each year — • “Game of Thrones” led all shows with 22 Emmy nominations, followed by “Westworld” and “Saturday Night Live,” which each had 21. — • HBO had been the most nominated network for 17 straight years.
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/Film, The Daily Beast, Variety, TVWeek.com, TechCrunch, @ew, Multichannel News, GeekWire, Exstreamist, EW.com, Variety, Adweek, /Film, Adweek and TV Tattle
NPR:
NPR analyzes how 48 Russia-linked Twitter accounts posed as local news sites, posting real local news for years and exploiting Americans' trust in local news — Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business claims DOJ clearance of Sinclair-Tribune deal is coming as early as Friday, but imminent clearance rumor has circulated before — Reports Sinclair looking for thumbs up as early as this week — There is buzz on Capitol Hill and elsewhere that the Department …
Discussion:
Democratic Underground, @mmfa, Media Matters for America and @cgasparino
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
FCC voted to approve controversial changes on how it handles consumer complaints, which some say will further weaken an already weak process — The FCC knows that Americans hate telecoms, and it's doing everything it can to give us reason to hate them more.
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Ars Technica, Fortune, The Hill, Techdirt, @jbrodkin, @jbrodkin, Washington Post and @jrosenworcel
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