Mediagazer: Facebook cuts off new sign-ups to traffic performance tool Domain Insights, creating a headache for new publishers (Max Willens/Digiday)

1:10 PM ET, August 22, 2016

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Univision's Isaac Lee on how buying Gawker Media, with brands iconic to millennials, is important to Univision's “young, digital and diverse” future — In many Hispanic homes in the United States, Univision is a constant TV presence and a huge influence.

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Josh Laurito / Gawker Data Team:

Gawker.com site metrics, from launch to closure: over 202K posts peaking at over 70 per day in 2008, 7B pageviews, more — As you may have heard, this week marks the end of gawker.com's operations. If you didn't read it here, you may have read about it in the bushel of eulogies …

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Sean Hannity, with a primetime Fox audience of 2.5M, veers into the role of Trump adviser, says he “never claimed to be a journalist” — During major inflection points in Donald J. Trump's campaign, the advisers, family members and friends who make up his kitchen cabinet burn …

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Profile of Viacom's interim CEO Tom Dooley, seen as an ally of Philippe Dauman who was also close to Sumner Redstone — Interim CEO may ultimately get the top job permanently — 'He's a very capable, well-liked guy. He knows the business' — After decades at Viacom Inc. …

Discussion: @lucas_shaw

Brent Lang / Variety:

Legal filings: Sumner Redstone's granddaughter asks for review of settlement with Dauman, criticizes him for acquiescing to Shari Redstone's “palace coup” — Keryn Redstone is asking to review a recent settlement agreement that resulted in the ouster of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom's future still up in the air after management shake-up: firm must boost key businesses, decide whether to sell a stake in Paramount or recombine with CBS

Discussion: Adweek, The Daily Caller and New York Times

James Rainey / Variety:
Viacom formally announces settlement: Philippe Dauman ousted, will be non-executive chairman until Sept. 13, Tom Dooley serves as CEO at least through Sept. 30

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Liz Spayd / New York Times:

The New York Times should pause in its rush to Facebook Live video and reinstitute its traditional standards of quality control — IT'S been just over four months since The New York Times started producing live video for Facebook, but already the scoreboard is flashing. A few earned gold medals.

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Max Willens / Digiday:

Facebook cuts off new sign-ups to traffic performance tool Domain Insights, creating a headache for new publishers — On the last day of June, Facebook dammed up a stream of audience data that publishers once used to see how their content performed inside Facebook.

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Richard Deitsch / SI.com:

Ryan Lochte robbery story was initially broken by Fox Sports Australia presenter Ben Way after a chance meeting with the swimmer's mother — - The reporter who discovered—and broke—the Ryan Lochte story from the Rio 2016 Olympics details how he stumbled upon on the news.

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Ryan Lochte's Evolving Story Faced Little Resistance From NBC

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David Ferguson / Raw Story:

CNN's Trump commentator Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presidential candidate's campaign, received $20K in July while working for the network — New filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) reveal that Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by Republican presidential …

Discussion: New York Daily News, Associated Press, @mattyglesias, @glennthrush, @morningmoneyben, @edatpost, @marmel, @evansiegfried, Politicus USA and @noahcrothman

Adrienne Lafrance / Nieman Reports:

The blurring of lines between media and tech firms, Silicon Valley's culture of secrecy, and a lack of skepticism and resources make tech reporting difficult — With the lines between media firms and tech firms blurring, coverage of the tech sector presents one of the most profound accountability challenges in modern journalism

Discussion: @nickconfessore, @evawxiao, @emilybell, @om, @om, @krmaher, @adriennelaf, @went1955, Slate, @jeffkauflin, @harrisj, @carolafrediani, @alexamcmahon, @janebsinger, @tothevictor, @dseetharaman, @g_piechota, @dvcjrnal and @adriennelaf

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:

Ad tech startup Media.net, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo, sells to group of Chinese investors for $900M — The startup, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing, plans a move akin to a reverse merger that would make it a public company in China.

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, Domain Name Wire, DomainInvesting.com, Fortune, @gabbbarsingh, @drinkcircle and @mdudas

Terry McDonell / Columbia Journalism Review:

Remembering David Carr, 18 months after his death: reporter, junkie, and mentor — A year after he died suddenly in the newsroom of The New York Times, David Carr still pops up several times a day on the Google Alert I set for him back in 2005, when he first explained to me what that was.

Discussion: @susanmcp1, @alexkeysjackson, @ckummer, @beingbrina and @deepakadk

James Warren / Poynter:

New editor of ESPN's The Undefeated Kevin Merida on leading a startup sports news site, video efforts, covering racially charged issues like police violence — Yes, Friday brought extensive Summer Olympics coverage, notably the ad nauseam, 24/7 mini-soap opera of the dissembling U.S swimmers …

Discussion: @bytierrasmith

Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:

Pentagon settles with Navy SEAL who wrote the book “No Easy Day” about the Osama bin Laden raid; author will pay $6.7M — Four years after a former Navy SEAL was threatened with prison for writing about the Osama bin Laden raid, the Pentagon has dropped its claim …