Top News:
New York Times:
The Defense Department labels combat journalists “unprivileged belligerents” makes their work more dangerous and subject to censorship — The Pentagon's Dangerous Views on the Wartime Press — The Defense Department earlier this summer released a comprehensive manual outlining its interpretation of the law of war.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition — Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition — The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Pearson sells 50% stake in Economist Group for £469M; Exor becomes largest single shareholder with 43% stake — Pearson sells 50% stake in Economist Group for £469m — Pearson has agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in the publisher of the Economist magazine for £469m in cash …
Discussion:
Economist Group, Economist, Guardian, Press Gazette, Globe and Mail, The Irish Times, NetNewsCheck Latest, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg Business, Sky News, International Business Times, Reuters, International Business Times, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, City A.M., Telegraph, Variety and Independent.ie
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract — The ethics of modern web ad-blocking — More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, @choire, @mattbuchanan, @abrams, @choire, @neilmajor, @bbhlabs, @beep, @mclendaniel, @bdebow, @felixsalmon, Washington Post, @thestalwart and Daring Fireball
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Invite-only link-sharing service This. raises $610K after spinning off from Atlantic Media — Now spun off from Atlantic Media, ‘This.’ raises $610,000 — Link-sharing service “This.” announced Tuesday that it has raised $610,000 in seed funding from a handful of angel investors …
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, @petersterne, Fortune and Medium
Rob Price / Business Insider:
UK police report 73% decrease in top ad spending on piracy sites — Most big piracy sites don't charge their users a fee, but are still able to profit off of copyright infringement. Why? Because the operators plaster their pages in advertising. — But British police now say they are …
Discussion:
Guardian, Music Week and Music Business Worldwide
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Tribune Publishing doing ‘top to bottom’ digital review — Tribune Publishing has initiated a “top to bottom” review of its digital business as it continues to struggle with revenue declines one year after it was spun off into its own publicly traded company.
Discussion:
Chicago Tribune, bizjournals, Business Wire, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Hollywood Reporter
Society of Professional Journalists:
More than 50 journalism groups again urge President Obama to stop excessive controls on public information — INDIANAPOLIS - Fifty-three journalism and open government groups today called on President Barack Obama - yet again - to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.
Discussion:
The Newspaper Guild
Paul Mason / Guardian:
Digital devices have shortened readers attention spans, increased skim-reading, and authors are now struggling to create immersive content — Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write — Our attention spans have shortened, we're distracted, and authors have changed …
Discussion:
Telegraph, @nicolalitagent and The Awl
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story — Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair. — The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair. — The article, titled …
Discussion:
Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, FishbowlNY, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The Verge, Wired, Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent, The Week, Guardian, Sky News, NBC News, The Inquisitr News, Re/code and Mashable
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Brian Williams' six-month suspension is over, will resume new role as MSNBC breaking news anchor in mid-September — Brian Williams' suspension is over — It's been six months since Williams was suspended without pay by NBC News for telling an exaggerated story about a helicopter mission during the Iraq War.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail, New York Daily News, USA Today, Newsday, The Hill, New York Times, Mediaite, Digital Spy and The Wrap
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fusion Adds Roku to Its List of Streaming Venues in Bid to Win New Viewers — Fusion, the TV network aimed for millennials that is owned by ABC News and Univision, is expanding to Roku. — Users of the service will be able to tap into the Watch Fusion channel on Roku to watch Fusion programs …
Discussion:
Yahoo! News and LostRemote
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
