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3:55 PM ET, August 18, 2016

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Gawker.com announces it will shut down next week, after nearly 14 years of operation  —  After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week.  The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media's six other websites …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Gawker.com incubated writers who wrote with fearlessness and style, influencing broader web  —  If this is your first day reading an article on the web: Hello and welcome.  If it isn't, you should be aware that much of what you've read on the web to this point has been shaped by the style …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision wants Gawker Media's blogs to shore up its reach to a younger digital audience ahead of a potential IPO  —  Univision is the biggest Hispanic media company in the U.S. Why in the world does it want Gawker Media, the aggressively impudent digital publisher that sold itself in a bankruptcy auction?
Discussion: Ad Age, Media Wire Daily and Reuters
Ken White / Popehat:
Gawker's fate shows the US legal system is receptive to abuse that suppresses speech, and not just from vengeful billionaires  —  Gawker has occasionally provided quality journalism and entertainment.  That doesn't stop me from despising its amoral and repulsive ethos.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times will retire its NYT Now app starting the week of August 29; at its peak in May 2015, the app had 334K total unique users  —  In early 2014, The New York Times introduced an app called NYT Now that would provide a curated list of stories — for a lower price …
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter says it has suspended 235K accounts since February for promoting terrorism, bringing total to 360K since mid-2015  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using …
The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has produced a civil war in conservative media, which will lead to a post-election reckoning  —  “There are elements of the entertainment wing of the Republican Party that need to be dealt with.”  —  During the 1990s, no one had a run quite like The American Spectator.
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New York Times:
Trump hires Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon to lead campaign in shakeup
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump's partnership with Steve Bannon highlights the blurred lines between journalism and media activism
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter rolls out quality filter setting to all, letting users filter “lower-quality content” from notifications, but it may not stop targeted non-spam abuse  —  The changes come one week after a BuzzFeed News investigation into Twitter's decade-long failure to stop abuse.
Charlotte England / The Independent:
Egypt's state broadcaster ERTU suspends eight of its female hosts, ordering them to lose weight, sparking outrage among women's rights groups  —  Egypt's state broadcaster has suspended eight female television presenters because it says they are overweight.
Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Esquire reporter Vicky Ward reveals that Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer, asked that she pursue a retaliatory hit piece on developer Richard Mack  —  His father-in-law's bid for the White House is in shambles.  Is he the man to fix it?  —  In the spring of 2011 …
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
A second Gatehouse Media newspaper in Florida, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, takes steps to unionize with the NewsGuild as buyouts loom  —  Newsroom employees at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune took steps to unionize Wednesday, just days after journalists at a sister publication, the Lakeland Ledger …
 
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New York Times:
Fairfax Media's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age may stop printing on weekdays, as newspaper readership falls about 50% since 2011 in Australia
Financial Times:
Daily Telegraph owners rebuffed two potential buyers: consortium led by Richard Addis and, source says, London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev
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Elizabeth Jensen / Commentary : NPR:
As of August 23, comments on NPR's website will be disabled; in July, 419K comments were made by just 19.4K users, representing 0.06% of site's overall visitors
 

 
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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:
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more

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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