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8:10 AM ET, September 1, 2016

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Yardena Schwartz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them  —  In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like disposable cogs of news production, Vice appears to be in a league of its own.
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Washington Post is logging trending stories every hour on Facebook, Google, and Twitter and compiling the results in a limited-run daily email digest  —  Before Gizmodo published allegations that Facebook's editors were biased, no one thought much about the “Trending” stories the site promotes …
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Quartz:
Facebook patent filings and curator interviews give a glimpse into the opaque algorithm controlling Trending news  —  With its human editors out the door, Facebook is letting the inmates run the asylum.  —  This week, a story about a man violently engaging a McChicken in intercourse lived …
Reported.ly:
Reported.ly staff says goodbye as it suspends service after losing First Look Media funding; team looking for ways to keep working together in future  —  Today is officially the last day of reported.ly.  Due to a loss of funding from our parent company, First Look Media …
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
GateHouse New England, which owns 100+ newspapers in Greater Boston, cutting 40 jobs through layoffs and buyouts, amid organizational restructure in September  —  GateHouse Media New England, which owns more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers in Greater Boston and its environs …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Comedy franchise Smosh aired a live, 80-min comedy special on YouTube on Friday night, generating nearly 58K concurrent viewers, 1.3M views as of Tuesday  —  While many creators focus on Facebook Live, Defy chose YouTube for its 80-minute-plus video stream featuring two commercial breaks
Discussion: Tubefilter
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Alaska's biweekly Skagway News, and the woman who writes, edits, lays out, and delivers the paper  —  Earlier this month, Suzanne Ashe left her apartment and car in Anchorage and hopped onto a seaplane with her Chihuahua mix Blanca.  The pair flew about 500 miles southeast to Skagway …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post publishes raw materials of its reporting for Trump biography, including transcripts of 20 hours of interviews  —  The Washington Post recently published a new biography of Donald Trump, for which the Republican nominee sat for more than 20 hours of interviews.  (Still, Trump didn't care for it much.)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS All Access ‘Ad-Free’ Video Subscription Option Will Still Carry Commercials in Live TV  —  CBS has launched a “commercial-free” option for its All Access subscription-video service, priced at $9.99 per month - but it won't be entirely without ads.  —  While the 7,500-plus episodes …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Two lawyers for Ailes badmouth journalist Gabriel Sherman ahead of an expected New York Magazine piece, calling his reporting a vendetta  —  Facing multiple allegations of sexually harassing female employees along with lawsuits from two of his accusers, to say nothing of advising Donald Trump …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
GoPro's launching 32 original shows by early 2017, some later this year; source says a cloud-based service for hosting or editing video is coming this year  —  CEO Nick Woodman looks to regain balance after rocky year  —  “I was up jammin' 'til 3 a.m. last night,” GoPro founder …
 
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Marty Swant / Adweek:
Flipboard to begin selling programmatic display and native ads for mobile devices next month via Rubicon Project
Steve Safran / LostRemote:
University of Oxford study: 28% of 18-24 year olds cite social media as main news source, compared to 24% who cite television
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South China Morning Post:
China bans entertainment news that promotes Western lifestyles, rules reports must comply with Communist party ideologies
Charlotte Greenfield / Reuters:
Kim Dotcom wins right to livestream his court appeal of extradition to US on YouTube, a first for New Zealand
Discussion: TechCrunch and Guardian
Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:
Greece to limit nationwide TV licenses to four with auction, forcing half of Greece's stations to close, plans to set up state ad agency, taking 30% cut
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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