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5:00 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Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them  —  In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated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.
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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 …
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 …
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
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.)
Marty Swant / Adweek:
Flipboard to begin selling programmatic display and native ads for mobile devices next month via Rubicon Project  —  Flipboard is turning a new page and will begin selling programmatic display and native ads.  —  The mobile app known for offering users a sampling of stories from around …
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 …
Discussion: Fortune, FishbowlNY and 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
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South China Morning Post:
China bans entertainment news that promotes Western lifestyles, rules reports must comply with Communist party ideologies
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