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5:25 PM 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 …
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, @emma_dumain and @politico
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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
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: @mathewi and Parse.ly, Thanks:@amontalenti
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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Wall Street Journal:
Concerned about revenue split, algorithm tweaks, and ad sales control, TV content owners like the NFL, Disney, and NBCUniversal resist Facebook video deals  —  ‘Premium’ content owners have doubts about advertising arrangements  —  The National Football League, Walt Disney Co …
Discussion: @joshconstine and Fortune
Melissa Mittelman / Bloomberg:
CB Insights: venture funding to media-tech companies slid for the third consecutive quarter to $91.7M, the lowest amount since mid-2013  —  Even as funding rounds hit 4-year low, some VCs remain bullish.  ‘The media landscape is being transformed,’ says Eric Hippeau
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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Geoffrey Cain / Columbia Journalism Review:
The challenges facing South Korean reporters who are expected to keep many on-the-record comments private
Discussion: @cjr
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Analyst: US pay-TV operators lost 757K subs in Q2, and 1.29M subscribers over past 12 months
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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: Politico and Guardian