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3:15 AM ET, August 14, 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
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 …
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
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 …
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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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
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
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
A look at why traditional TV companies have invested over $1.6B in digital startups like Refinery29, BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox since 2013  —  For all of the attention given to digital media startups producing buzzworthy content on social platforms, it's easy to forget that spending decades deeply entrenched …
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
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 …
Discussion: Digital Trends
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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Geoffrey Cain / Columbia Journalism Review:
The challenges facing South Korean reporters who are expected to keep many on-the-record comments private
Discussion: @cjr
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
After layoffs and lack of raises, journalists at GateHouse Media's Lakeland Ledger in Florida vote to join NewsGuild
Discussion: @kristenhare
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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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out new code to nullify adblock workaround introduced by Adblock Plus
Stuff.co.nz:
Court rules Sky TV can't prevent New Zealand's Fairfax from using Olympics video excerpts
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”
 

 
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Richard Spencer / The Times:
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become a superstar in China with tourism around his origin story, as DeepSeek proves an unexpected boon for President Xi

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month

Steven Levy / Wired:
Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector

 
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