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WhatsApp to share phone numbers and analytics data of users with Facebook, two years after it said it had no plans to collect data — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook bought the start-up WhatsApp in 2014, Jan Koum, WhatsApp's co-founder, declared that the deal would not affect the digital privacy …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Clinton campaign seeks correction of AP tweet about State Department meetings; AP declines — The Clinton campaign has asked the Associated Press to amend or remove a tweet promoting an investigative story on the meetings of Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state.
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Jim Weber / LinkedIn Pulse:
Sports writer says Twitter permanently banned his account with nearly 100K followers after he tweeted three Olympics GIFs — I thought the only people to get permanently banned from Twitter were Leslie Jones' online bully and terrorists. — Apparently those who post a GIF …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Advice to James and Lachlan Murdoch: transform Fox News from a partisan opinion network to one that reports more news to reach younger, non-white viewers — Here's unsolicited advice for the Murdoch brothers. — Now that the monster Roger Ailes has been slain and the palace that he built …
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Sources: Condé Nast is considering cost cuts, reducing its roster of 13 or so publishers down to about six, to make way for a digital future — Cuts may be coming to Condé Nast. — Condé Nast headquarters at One World Trade. — More changes may be coming soon to the halls of One World Trade Center.
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: New York Times-CBS news poll may dissolve after the election as veteran Times pollsters take buyouts and telephone polls become more costly — The future of The New York Times-CBS News poll, one of America's oldest and most influential public opinion polls, is up in the air.
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Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
University of Kentucky to sue student-run paper to avoid details of faculty sexual assault investigation becoming public — The University of Kentucky will take its student paper to court to avoid releasing documents detailing scientist James Harwood's alleged sexual assault against two students.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Andrea Tantaros' lawyer in suit against Fox says she will also seek damages for violations of criminal laws “having nothing to do with sexual harassment” — Judd Burstein, the New York lawyer representing Andrea Tantaros in her sexual harassment suit against Fox News and its top officials …
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Questlove joins Pandora as its first “artist ambassador” and will host a weekly show set to debut September 7 — Last fall, Questlove, of the Roots, visited Pandora Media's headquarters in Oakland, Calif., for what he assumed would be a perfunctory outreach meeting.
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
To challenge ESPN, Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports sign multiyear deal to share “significant” content and sell ads across both entities, sharing revenue — Sites will share editorial content and sell advertising across both entities to better compete with ESPN
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Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Sources: YouTube building Backstage feature that allows creators to share photos, polls, links, and more that will appear in subscribers' feeds, slated for fall — EXCLUSIVE: — YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing service, is looking beyond video to keep its homegrown stars …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Of 26.7M viewers of Rio Olympics on NBC, streaming accounted for 225K-500K viewers, but 10% of ad sales — IN THIS ERA of cord-cutting and streaming services, there has remained one constant for television networks and advertisers looking to draw a crowd: live events.
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