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5:55 PM ET, September 4, 2016

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Fox News women took down Roger Ailes in 15 days to end a 20-year reign rife with misogyny, harassment, surveillance, smear campaigns, and hush money  —  How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.  —  It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign …
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Media Matters for America:
Media Matters president Bradley Beychok calls for immediate investigation, considering all legal options after report Fox sought out reporter's phone records
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Interview with Alex Marlow, the 30-year-old editor in chief of Breitbart News and the company's first hire, on Trump, media bias, and Andrew Breitbart's legacy  —  When the Breitbart media empire was just starting, and still being operated out of late founder Andrew Breitbart's basement, Alex Marlow was the first hire.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
A dozen former Breitbart employees say Steve Bannon used sexually charged language, ordered hit pieces, tried to sabotage their employment prospects, more
Reena Flores / CBS News:
Moderators for three presidential debates will be NBC's Lester Holt, CNN's Anderson Cooper, ABC's Martha Raddatz, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace  —  The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) revealed Friday the moderators for the three presidential debates between Hillary Clinton …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Interview with Nick Denton on his family, adjusting to life in bankruptcy, the ongoing feud with Peter Thiel, and regrets from his Gawker days  —  Over lobster bisque, the founder of trailblazing gossip site Gawker talks about the fallout from outing a ‘tech lord’ and the backlash against too much truth
Discussion: Press Gazette and The Drum
Pew Research Center:
Pew: 65% of Americans have read a print book in the last year, while 28% have read an e-book and 14% have listened to an audio book  —  Americans today have an enormous variety of content available to them at any time of day, and this material is available in a number of formats and through a range of digitally connected devices.
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The main Trump story by The New York Times on Wednesday was slow to update, in contrast with reporting team's other minute-by-minute updates  —  It was a fast-paced day for the team covering politics at The New York Times on Wednesday.  —  In the late afternoon, Donald J. Trump was playing …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook plans to limit ad placement for advertisers whose sites load too slowly or are not optimized for mobile  —  Social network will limit where and when ads appear if they point to slow-loading sites  —  Facebook wants advertisers to speed up their mobile websites and plans to limit …
Discussion: Ad Age, ClickZ and ZDNet
Guardian:
Richard Neville, co-founder and editor of the 1960s counterculture magazine Oz, dies at 74  —  Co-founder and editor of the 60s counterculture magazine Oz  —  In early 1963, Richard Neville, who has died aged 74, gathered together a band of fellow students at his parents' home in suburban Sydney to put together a satirical magazine.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MTV's Video Music Awards had 21M unique viewers on Snapchat, up 75% from last year; TV audience fell 34% to 6.5M  —  Viacom's MTV is still a TV brand, and the bulk of its revenue is still anchored in traditional television distribution.  But the youth-skewing brand has been forced to spray …
Discussion: @jeffweiner
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Dish Network and Tribune Broadcasting reach long-term carriage agreement, expect channels to return today  —  Dish Network and Tribune Broadcasting announced a long-term agreement on carriage and retransmission content today.  In a joint statement, the companies said the pact would last “for years to come.”
 
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Stephen Koff / Plain Dealer:
Appeals court panel denies stay that let Backpage.com avoid turning over internal documents to Senate investigators
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
Justice Department says it will approve Nexstar's $4.6B acquisition of Media General after Nexstar divests seven TV stations
Discussion: KATC-TV, Reuters and TVNewsCheck.com
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David Bond / Financial Times:
Mail Online, with the same owners as The Daily Mail, pushes for exemption to UK press rules for digital content generated overseas
Patricia Hernandez / Kotaku:
Some YouTubers fret after being notified that some videos are not “advertiser friendly” and can't be monetized; YouTube says policy hasn't changed
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023

Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg:
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam

Alexander Martin / The Record:
The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so

 
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