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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.
Matt Drange / Forbes:
Ex-Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio faces potential bankruptcy as he and Hulk Hogan's lawyers tussle over access to his assets
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @niemanlab and @digiday
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.
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
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Analyst: US pay-TV operators lose 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 …
Stuff.co.nz:
Court rules Sky TV can't prevent New Zealand's Fairfax from using Olympics video excerpts  —  “Obviously we're delighted,” Fairfax group executive editor Sinead Boucher said.  —  Sky TV has lost its bid for an interim injunction against Fairfax Media regarding the use of its Olympic Games footage.
 
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Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, will leave the company in the coming weeks to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global
 

 
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