Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:20 PM ET, August 15, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
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 …
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.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Profile of Bill Shine, newly appointed Fox News co-president and longtime Fox loyalist, who for years was known as Roger Ailes' right-hand man  —  Bill Shine, the newly appointed co-president of Fox News, commutes two hours every morning from Long Island to Midtown Manhattan …
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.
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
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 …
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
News outlets need to pursue online strategies that advance their work, rather than degrading their work to advance online strategies  —  When is a distribution method that harms users' brains no longer an acceptable cost of doing business?  —  3377 WORDS  —  In 2007, two years after the launch …
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 …
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.
Discussion: @mathowie, @jessamyn and @mathowie
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 8:20 PM ET, August 15, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Variety:
Sources: TV operator Sky to test European market by launching OTT service Now TV in Spain
 Earlier Picks: 
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
New York Times:
Trump steps up his routine mockery of the press and accusations of news media bias
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page