Mediagazer: Legal filings: Sumner Redstone's granddaughter asks for review of settlement with Dauman, criticizes him for acquiescing to Shari Redstone's “palace coup” (Brent Lang/Variety)

4:20 PM ET, August 22, 2016

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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 …

Joe Pompeo / Politico:

Sources: Time Inc. is facing new round of cuts across its US titles, including Don Banks of Sports Illustrated; one source says it's around 40 editorial staff — THE TRUMPINGTON POST CHANNEL? — The drumbeat about whether Donald Trump is planning to start his own media operation after Nov. 8 is getting louder.

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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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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

The New York Times has created a newsroom-wide team to cover race, with a biweekly newsletter, forthcoming multimedia projects, more — More than a decade ago, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for “How Race is Lived In America,” a series of stories exploring attitudes toward race across the United States.

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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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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, Business Insider, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, @gabbbarsingh, @drinkcircle, @mdudas, DomainInvesting.com, Domain Name Wire and Fortune

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Melania Trump takes legal action against Daily Mail for defamation; Charles Harder, her attorney, represented Hulk Hogan in Gawker case — Melania Trump has started legal action against the Daily Mail and other outlets for what she claims is a defamatory article about her past.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Bustle says its 20-25K daily app users average six minutes per session, above average rates, according to UK study; TV coverage in particular attracts readers — It's a hard time for publisher apps. There was more evidence of that last week when The New York Times announced it would shut down NYT Now …

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.

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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.

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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