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Alex Koppelman / CNNMoney:
AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll defends the news wire's story about meetings Clinton took as secretary of state, says tweet was “sloppy” — Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll is defending her organization's controversial investigation into meetings Hillary Clinton took …
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Questions for those cheering the demise of a media organization at the hands of a legal system — Gawker.com, the pioneering and controversial media blog, officially died yesterday. It was killed by billionaire Peter Thiel in his successful quest to bankrupt Gawker Media Group through …
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Guardian, @gaberivera, @mims, @trevortimm, @mmasnick and Magforum
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Gawker's demise signifies the end of a golden age of blogging, done in by social media, podcasts, GIFs, and broader media consolidation — The demise of Gawker.com also marks the end of the utopian promise of blogging. Here's what killed them. — For the media-savvy members of a certain generation …
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:
To serve advertisers, digital media companies are shifting away from text and pictures toward video, a hard move for small web properties with few resources — It's been a big, weird year for the media industry. Gawker, the pioneering blog, declared bankruptcy and was sold off to Univision …
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USA Today, @medium, @noahchestnut, @mariekshan, @lauraelizdavis, Business Insider and The Wrap
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia increases flow of false news stories from outlets like Sputnik and RT, which spread in EU and US via social media and spill into traditional news media — STOCKHOLM — With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO …
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@stephwillerton, @samtamiz, @jimhake, @politechris, @empireburlesque and @mspaaz
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
The dominance of Drudge, Breitbart, Hannity, and Coulter and their Trump support have damaged Republican party, some other conservative media figures say — Sean Hannity, sitting comfortably in his air-conditioned New York studios on a hot August afternoon, was on a fiery rant.
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@albertocairo, @jayrosen_nyu, @danshafermke, @monkbowlin, @erikashaker, @danriehl, @toayc, @oliverdarcy, @realmreynolds, @melodgrl, @kylegriffin1, @baboomfitness and BuzzFeed
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
As business challenges hit college newspapers, those owned by for-profit entities face bigger squeezes or a shutdown — The Central Florida Future, the student newspaper at the University of Central Florida founded in 1968, published its last issue August 4.
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The Lantern, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Although Hillary Clinton has held no press conferences in 2016, she's given 350 interviews in first seven months the year, favoring national TV and local radio — Hillary Clinton has not held a single press conference since the start of 2016, triggering charges that she's trying to duck questions from reporters on the campaign trail.
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New York Times, The Wrap and @danmericacnn
Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with The Coral Project's director Andrew Losowsky on Trust, Ask, and Talk, the open source tools it's developing for improving comment sections — NPR last week announced its decision to shut down comments on its website in favor of comments on social media—saying “the audience itself has decided.”
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@evesamples and @cjr
Quartz:
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party — Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
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Gizmodo, @nathanjurgenson, @mcwm, @charlesarthur, @codybrown, @marginoferror, @caitlin__kelly, @glennf, @michaelroston, @_alastair, @daveyalba, @oneunderscore__, @dseetharaman, @digiphile, @dsilverman, @walldo, @geoffreyfowler, @auerbachkeller, @schwindter, @resnikoff, @fmanjoo, @phogan, @leibelm and @mattdrange
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Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section
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@naaceceo, @marshallk, Refinery29, Recode, The Verge, The Wrap, The Drum, New York Magazine, TechCrunch, Washington Post, @emptywheel, @zeynep, @zeynep, @goc9000, fox13now.com, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, GeekWire, CNET, @rsingel, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Ad Age, Fortune, The Huffington Post, SocialTimes, Business Insider, CNNMoney, Forbes, Fast Company and Mashable
The Verge:
Inside NBC's Olympic live streaming operation, which required a remote support staff of 1,100+ in Stamford, Connecticut — For NBC, this year's Olympic Games coverage was more than just a series of household rating points: it was a moment of truth in a fast-changing media world.
Lauren Zumbach / Chicago Tribune:
Amazon is opening an offline bookstore in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood next year; the online retailer opened its first store in Seattle last fall — Construction signs are posted Aug. 24, 2016, at 3443 N. Southport Ave., the Lakeview neighborhood location where Amazon plans to open a Chicago bookstore in 2017.
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GeekWire and Publishers Weekly
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify calls report that it demotes songs in search due to artists' exclusives with rivals “unequivocally false” — Spotify doesn't like exclusives. But it says it won't bury Frank Ocean and other acts in its search results. — Spotify doesn't like it when big-name acts take their music to Apple or Tidal first.
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Fortune, The Drum, AppleInsider, BGR and @om
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Frank Ocean's exclusive, independent release of new album highlights tensions among artists, music labels, and digital services
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Billboard, Forbes, The Verge, Complex, The FADER, AppleInsider, hypebot, @caseynewton, TechCrunch, Futurist Gerd Leonhard, MacRumors and Bloomberg
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