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9:35 AM ET, August 2, 2016

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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Joshua Topolsky, co-founder of The Verge, raises $5M for new publication The Outline in round led by RRE Ventures, which will cover power, culture, the future  —  The Outline, backed by $5 million, will cover power, culture and ‘the future’  —  Joshua Topolsky is ready for his next act, and he's setting out to fix digital media.
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
How Atlas Obscura is building the “Nice Vice” with a nascent travel business, a potential TV show and a book due in September  —  One day in 2014, soon after David Plotz left his job as editor of the online magazine Slate, he took his then 13-year-old daughter, Noa, on a bike ride through Anacostia.
Discussion: @raju and @abeaujon
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Following Vice's lead, digital publishers like Ozy are signing TV deals  —  Vox Media Says Production Process For Curbed Show Is Going Smoothly  —  It's no longer a question of “if,” it's a question of “when.”  Digital publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed, Thrillist Media Group …
Discussion: @themehulpatel
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How journalists can stay impartial, give American voters the information they need in the lead-up to the presidential election  —  As the newly nominated presidential candidates plunge into the last 100 days of the campaign, news organizations might pause before they do the same.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News serves up 28 Million Facebook Live video streams during political conventions  —  Network's news division delivered total of 74-plus hours on social service, but it carried no ads  —  ABC News is touting huge reach beyond the TV from its deal with Facebook, delivering …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
YouTube party conventions statistics: 9M live viewers, averaging 25 minutes; RNC viewed 4.5M times, DNC, 4.6M; 217K peak for Trump, 250K for Clinton
Ruth Margalit / New York Times:
How Benjamin Netanyahu tries to control broadcast, print and online news in Israel, creating an atmosphere of intimidation in newsrooms  —  In its annual report released this spring, Freedom House, an American democracy advocacy organization, downgraded Israel's freedom of the press ranking from “free” to “partly free.”
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
 
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Adam Thomson / Financial Times:
Vivendi CEO hints he may walk away from a deal with Italy's Mediaset, concerned that growth projections for Mediaset's pay-TV unit are “unachievable”
Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
Purple, a text message-based news service that focused on national politics, will now distribute through Facebook Messenger instead of SMS
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Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
How Vox Media's new Storytelling Studio thinks of stories as products
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Breitbart News tries to expand its audience beyond Trump fans by appealing to Bernie Sanders supporters
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