Mediagazer: NYT is launching digital-first teams to cover gender, education, and climate change as part of a strategy to disentangle itself from the daily print bureaucracy (Benjamin Mullin/Poynter)

7:45 PM ET, August 26, 2016

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After the US election, alt-right website Breitbart News intends to launch in France, seeing a business opportunity in the rise of nationalist politics — LONDON — Stephen Bannon intends to get Donald Trump into the White House — and then he's set on conquering Europe.

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords — Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter …

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Reporters for Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal were told to ask candidates a not-for-publication question about public funding for Raiders stadium — Reporters for Sheldon Adelson's newspaper have been told to ask candidates if they support public money for the stadium proposed …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

NYT is launching digital-first teams to cover gender, education, and climate change as part of a strategy to disentangle itself from the daily print bureaucracy — The New York Times appears to be getting further away from its print roots in a bid to cover the news on a variety of platforms.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, New York Times, @danfagin, @yannicrack, @poynter, @amyalex63, @benmullin and @craigtimes

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