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4:35 PM ET, August 31, 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Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them  —  In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated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.
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 …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Three Facebook Trending curators say system that fed them stories failed to improve, user testing feedback of bare-bones new version was overwhelmingly negative
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 …
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 …
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.)
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media agrees to sell Chicago's Tribune Tower to LA-based developer CIM Group for up to $240M  —  The Tribune Tower as seen from Pioneer Court on July 31, 2014.  —  Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end …
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
South China Morning Post:
China bans entertainment news that promotes Western lifestyles, rules reports must comply with Communist party ideologies  —  Beijing has forbidden reports of entertainment news that promote “Western lifestyles”, poke fun at traditional Chinese values and cultural classics, such as mythical heroes …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Reuters
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
GoPro's launching 32 original shows by early 2017, some later this year; source says a cloud-based service 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 and CEO Nick Woodman says by way of apology …
Discussion: Digital Trends
 
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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
Charlotte Greenfield / Reuters:
Kim Dotcom wins right to livestream his court appeal of extradition to US on YouTube, a first for New Zealand
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Oriana Schwindt / The Wrap:
SNL Kagan: a record high of 812K pay TV subscribers cut the cord in the April-June quarter, versus 625K in the same quarter a year ago
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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