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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
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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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The last party before Gawker Media's bankruptcy sale felt like a giddy wake, with speeches by a still-defiant Nick Denton
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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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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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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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Max Willens / Digiday:
How CNN's social apps producer Masuma Ahuja experiments with Line, Kik, and Facebook Messenger to cover the Olympics — Masuma Ahuja's feet may be on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, but she has to be in several places at once for CNN. As the social apps producer in charge of the news publisher's Line …
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
TV ratings for Olympics on NBC down nearly 20% from London games as media viewing habits change
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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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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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Analyst: US pay-TV operators lost 757K subs in Q2, and 1.29M subscribers over past 12 months — The pay-television biz kept up a slow pace of descent as U.S. cable, satellite and telco TV operators shed a collective 757,000 subscribers in the second quarter, according to Wall Street analyst Craig Moffett …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
After layoffs and lack of raises, journalists at GateHouse Media's Lakeland Ledger in Florida vote to join NewsGuild — A newspaper joined the recent spate of mostly digital newsrooms unionizing in the United States on Thursday, calling itself the first of its kind to do so in Florida.
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
FCC votes to retain rules limiting cross-ownership of newspapers, radio, and TV stations in the same market, despite complaints that restrictions are outdated — The Federal Communications Commission has voted to keep in place its rules that prohibit media companies from owning newspapers …
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