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6:50 PM ET, August 15, 2016

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Peter Thiel / New York Times:
Peter Thiel says he will support Hogan “until his final victory”, advocates the “Gawker bill” that would criminalize profiting from explicit private images  —  Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Final bids for Gawker due Monday at 5pm: potential contenders include New York Magazine, Univision, Penske Media, and Vox Media  —  The end of Gawker Media as an independent company is near.  —  Under financial pressure from a $140 million legal judgment in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
An FAQ guide to Gawker Media's auction on Tuesday and the bidding process  —  Questions and answers — and the reason Gawker is like Lehman Brothers and GM.  —  Sometime in the next day or so, we should know who's going to buy Gawker Media: Bids for the bankrupt blog pioneer are due by 5 pm ET today …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Larry Wilmore's “Nightly” show, Comedy Central's replacement for The Colbert Report, cancelled as network says it hasn't resonated with audiences  —  In the midst of a wild and unpredictable presidential campaign, Comedy Central is upending its late-night lineup and canceling Larry Wilmore's show.
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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
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Joe Brown, executive editor of Wired, will take over as editor in chief of Popular Science; he's the magazine's fourth editor in four years  —  He's the magazine's fourth editor in chief in four years.  —  Popular Science has had three editors in four years.
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 …
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 …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
As Arianna Huffington steps down, the website she founded is an outmoded portal with lagging traffic  —  The Huffington Post was breezily dismissed as Arianna Huffington's vanity play when it launched in 2005.  But it proved doubters wrong by building a massive online audience …
Jena McGregor / Washington Post:
As his fifth anniversary as Apple CEO approaches, Tim Cook reflects on his tenure and Apple's future: mistakes, progress made, acquisitions, services, content  —  Apple's CEO talks iPhones, AI, privacy, civil rights, missteps, China, taxes, Steve Jobs — and steers right past the car rumors
Matt Haughey / 15 Minutes in the Morning:
IOC's ban on animated GIFs during the Rio Olympics may have prevented many moments from going viral  —  The IOC's war on animated GIFs means we all lose  —  Last week, news came out that animated GIFs were banned for the Rio games.  It seemed silly, and like a quick power move on the part of the international olympics committee.
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