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11:40 AM ET, August 25, 2016

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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: @erikwemple
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.
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.
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Over 90% of editorial workers at Law360 voted to unionize with the News Guild of New York  —  Law360's editorial staff has voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the News Guild of New York, after an aggressive weeks-long effort by management to discourage the formation of a union in the newsroom.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon aims to make digital books widely accessible globally by launching the Kindle Reading Fund in partnership with Worldreader
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