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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Bill Shine will be in charge of Fox News talent, programming, and newsgathering, Jack Abernethy will oversee business functions, CFO Mark Kranz is retiring — Now that Roger Ailes is gone, Fox News will be led by a pair of executives, Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy.
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Business Wire:
Rupert Murdoch names Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine as co-presidents of Fox News, effective immediately — Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine Named Co-Presidents Reporting to Rupert Murdoch — Suzanne Scott Promoted to Executive Vice President of Programming — Chief Financial Officer Mark Kranz to Retire
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Tom Kertscher / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Conviction overturned for Brendan Dassey of Netflix's Making a Murderer, due to investigators' false promises; prosecutors get 90 days to decide on retrial — Brendan Dassey, who was convicted along with his uncle, Steven Avery, in the murder of Teresa Halbach, has won a court order …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
New York Times buys marketing agency Fake Love, which specializes in virtual and augmented reality, in a push to build up its in-house ad services — For the second time this year, The New York Times is acquiring a marketing agency. This time, it's buying Fake Love, an agency that specializes …
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Adweek, Engadget, Ad Age, Media Wire Daily, NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump's war with the media has given Hillary Clinton cover not to create a press pool for her campaign, bucking tradition — As Trump wars with the media, Clinton moves just as slowly to allow reporters full coverage, bucking tradition. — Think Donald Trump is the only candidate sidelining the press?
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@maggienyt, @emma_dumain and @politico
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: up to seven bidders expected at Gawker's bankruptcy auction next week, including Univision — Gawker's bankruptcy auction could be as crowded as its farewell party on Wednesday evening — but without the beer and pizza. — As many as seven suitors are expected to attend …
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@niemanlab, @jayrosen_nyu, @anthony, @claireatki and @justinjm1
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Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
There was no measurable traffic impact from Facebook's friends-and-family algorithm change, according to Parse.ly analysis across 600 digital publishers — When Facebook announced in June that it was tweaking its News Feed algorithm — giving more weight to friends and family and less …
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@mathewi and Parse.ly, Thanks:@amontalenti
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Blendle pay-per-story service reaches 1M global users, with 10K beta testers in US and 25K on a US private beta waiting list — When it comes to news, readers want quality journalism. But they don't want to search for it—even if they do in theory, they likely won't in practice.
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TechCrunch, @buzz, @wfederman, @alexandernl and Alexander Klöpping, Thanks:@alexandernl
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Olympics puts the joint Snapchat venture between old-school NBC and viral content publisher Buzzfeed to the test — Digital media company has athletes destroying watermelons — NBC's coverage of the Olympics carries a certain amount of gravitas, from the pomp of the opening ceremony …
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@jackmarshall, @peretti, Awful Announcing, @asharma, @perlberg, @kerrymflynn, @wsj and @dannygroner
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
A look at why traditional TV companies have invested over $1.6B in digital startups like Refinery29, BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox since 2013 — For all of the attention given to digital media startups producing buzzworthy content on social platforms, it's easy to forget that spending decades deeply entrenched …
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@cheriehu42, @mrmistry, @mattervc, @_keenanbeasley_ and @digidave
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Turner and Scripps Networks announce $45M investment in Refinery29, sources say at $500M valuation
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The Drum, Adweek and Editor & Publisher, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Wall Street Journal:
Concerned about revenue split, algorithm tweaks, and ad sales control, TV content owners like the NFL, Disney, and NBCUniversal resist Facebook video deals — ‘Premium’ content owners have doubts about advertising arrangements — The National Football League, Walt Disney Co …
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@joshconstine and Fortune
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out new code to nullify adblock workaround introduced by Adblock Plus — Adblock Plus launched a workaround to Facebook's ad block bypass today that ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCrunch.
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The Daily Beast:
The Daily Beast removes post about the use of Grindr at Olympics after complaints it outed gay athletes, says “we were wrong” — One athlete poses in his full Canadian team kit. Others post their Olympic bedspreads as their profile pictures. They're ready to date—even your distinctly non-Olympian correspondent.
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