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5:30 AM ET, August 15, 2016

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New York Times:
Trump steps up his routine mockery of the press and accusations of news media bias  —  Donald J. Trump was on the defensive all week, battered from all sides for his heated statements hailing the Second Amendment and linking political opponents to the Islamic State.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Twitter in talks with Apple to bring its app to Apple TV, hoping to fully capitalize on its live-streaming deals with NFL, MLB, NBA, Wimbledon, others  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last March, Twitter and Facebook, along with other tech companies, faced off over which of them would get the rights …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Fox News has avoided covering the Roger Ailes scandal, spending about 11 minutes on it across all shows over the past 5 weeks  —  It's one of the most intriguing stories of the summer, a tale of sex, money, politics and corporate skullduggery that would seem especially ripe for coverage and discussion by the firebrands at Fox News.
New York Times:
Distrust has grown between Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro Jr. and the firm's third-largest shareholder, Oaktree Capital, as Ferro fought off a Gannett bid  —  In early summer, after the company formerly called Tribune Publishing had rejected two takeover offers from Gannett …
Discussion: @sennettreport
Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
Inside The New York Times, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated strategies for Instagram Stories versus Snapchat  —  The announcement of Instagram Stories last Tuesday came with mixed reviews, many considering it a blatant ripoff of Snapchat.  Allowing users to share real-time life updates …
Discussion: @niemanlab and @niemanlab
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Media brands, including many Snapchat Discover partners, are testing Instagram Stories and report solid early traffic  —  Media brands, including many Snapchat Discover partners, are seeing solid early traffic  —  Media firms are flocking to the new Instagram Stories …
Zheping Huang / Quartz:
Profile of Global Times, China's nationalistic tabloid published by People's Daily, whose hawkish editorials often attract the attention of foreign media  —  Hong Kong's best film of 2015 is a “virus of the mind.”  Taiwan's push for independence means war with China is inevitable.
Wall Street Journal:
Private-equity firm TPG agrees to buy cable providers RCN and Grande Communications for about $2.25B including debt; Google Capital taking minority stake  —  Google Capital, Alphabet's growth-equity investment fund, to take minority stake in cable-TV companies
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Source: Condé Nast was in advanced talks to buy tech review site Digital Trends for $120M, but the deal fell through  —  Lots of publishers are focused on Facebook, but the 10-year-old site is very good at Google.  —  Condé Nast was close to adding another web publisher to its stable …
Discussion: TechnoBuffalo
Finn Cohen / New York Times:
Warner keeps hip-hop group De La Soul's influential catalog off of digital music services because samples they used may not be legally cleared for digital use  —  On Valentine's Day in 2014, De La Soul did something surprising: The group gave away almost all of its work.
Thanks:@gitagovinda
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Staffers at TRT World, Turkey's government-owned TV station, say views critical of the government's post-coup crackdown on press have been muted  —  Amid Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's purge, unhappy staffers say TRT World has muted criticism of the government while blasting the opposition Gulen movement
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
Thanks:@ravichandrans25
 
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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
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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
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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
 

 
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Financial Times:
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 for a minority stake, as G42 severed its ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will sit on G42's board

Artificial Intelligence Index:
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware's licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group
 
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