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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 …
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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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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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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, Awful Announcing, @asharma, @perlberg, @kerrymflynn, @wsj and @dannygroner
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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
How CNN's social apps producer Masuma Ahuja experiments with Line, Kik, and Facebook Messenger to cover the Olympics
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@digiday and @niemanlab
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
TV ratings for Olympics on NBC down nearly 20% from London games as media viewing habits change
TV ratings for Olympics on NBC down nearly 20% from London games as media viewing habits change
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Adweek, USA Today, Washingtonian, Awful Announcing and Variety
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 and @politico
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, @wfederman, @alexandernl and Medium, Thanks:@alexandernl
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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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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Parse.ly, Thanks:@amontalenti
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 …
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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