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2:45 AM ET, August 3, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN president Jeff Zucker calls Vice and BuzzFeed native ad shops, not legitimate news organizations, praises former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski  —  Corey Lewandowski is a great CNN contributor and Vice and BuzzFeed are not legitimate news organizations, CNN president Jeff Zucker says in Variety's latest cover story.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Instagram launches new “Stories” section, cloning Snapchat's Stories feature, with PewDiePie and other celebrities and social influencers onboard  —  Watch out, Snapchat: Instagram is gunning for you.  —  The Facebook-owned photo sharing service announced a major update Tuesday …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman owned the story about sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes at Fox News: deep sources, persistence, and empathy  —  Journalists are highly competitive, but every once in a while, a reporter is so far out ahead on a continuing story that all the rest of us can do is acknowledge the obvious.
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
NFL, Snapchat agree to multi-year partnership extension; NFL gets a Discover slot, will produce Live Stories for games; Snapchat will do most of ad-selling work  —  Football league to produce analysis, photos, videos for messaging app under extended partnership  —  The National Football League is huddling up with Snapchat Inc.
Tobias Burns / Hollywood Reporter:
Funny or Die is cutting about 37 staffers and closing its San Mateo office  —  EMAIL ME  —  New CEO Mike Farah is making changes.  —  Comedy website Funny or Die is cutting approximately 37 staffers and closing their San Mateo office, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Discussion: Variety, Tubefilter and The Wrap
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Aron Pilhofer, The Guardian's outgoing executive editor for digital, on the paper's 50K-strong membership model, differences between US and UK media  —  Aron Pilhofer has had a front-row seat to the sweeping changes newsrooms have experienced at the hands of digital disruption.
Discussion: @albertocairo
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Facebook is testing giving publishers the option to run fifteen-second mid-roll video ads in Facebook Live streams  —  Fifteen-Second Commercial Breaks Appear During Live-Streams  —  Facebook has started running tests of mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts from top publishing partners, the company confirmed Monday.
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Viacom held settlement talks with Redstone's National Amusements that would have led to Philippe Dauman leaving firm, but talks fell through  —  Discussions fell through last week but included Viacom CEO Dauman stepping down  —  Top Viacom Inc. executives recently held discussions …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NYT to publish print-only 16K-word excerpt of author Colson Whitehead's new novel, part of a plan to use fiction to incentivize sales of paper's print edition  —  Even as The New York Times prioritizes digital expansion, with a stated goal of reaching $800 million in digital revenue by 2020 …
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
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: Nieman Lab, @raju and @abeaujon
 
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How journalists can stay impartial, give American voters the information they need in the lead-up to the presidential election
Discussion: @niketa
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

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