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1:30 AM ET, August 13, 2016

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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
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 …
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  —  Since its beginning in 2002, Gawker has been a veritable schadenfreude machine, taking delight in deflating the egos of New York's cultural elite, among other, perhaps less worthy, targets.
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?
Discussion: @maggienyt and @politico
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 …
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: Parse.ly, Thanks:@amontalenti
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.
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 …
 
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Geoffrey Cain / Columbia Journalism Review:
The challenges facing South Korean reporters who are expected to keep many on-the-record comments private
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
After layoffs and lack of raises, journalists at GateHouse Media's Lakeland Ledger in Florida vote to join NewsGuild
Discussion: @kristenhare
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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”
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Politico's Brexit coverage gave its traffic a 300% boost in June, establishing a blueprint for future expansion plays
Discussion: Guardian
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at the iPhone 17 “Air”, which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones

Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg:
The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with US companies building AI products
 
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