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12:20 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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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 …
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
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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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 …
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 …
Geoffrey Cain / Columbia Journalism Review:
The challenges facing South Korean reporters who are expected to keep many on-the-record comments private  —  South Korean national flags fly outside the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015.  Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images
 
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
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