Mediagazer: How news organizations are testing Amazon's Alexa: interviews with NBC, Scripps' Newsy, The Washington Post, Slate, and Refinery29 (Joseph Lichterman/Nieman Lab)

4:45 AM ET, September 5, 2016

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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

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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.

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

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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 …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @chrchristensen, New York Times, Commission on Presidential …, CNNMoney, Media Matters for America, Broadcasting & Cable, @samsanders, @marisakabas, Variety, Newser, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, TIME, Politico and The Week

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

The Newspaper Association of America changes its name to the News Media Alliance — One day many decades hence, when your grandchildren ask you, “Grandma, what was a newspaper?” you can direct them back to Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. Because it may well go down as the day the American newspaper …

Financial Times:

Sources: Liberty Media in advanced talks to acquire 10-15% stake in F1 racing franchise for £1B-£2B, with 21st Century Fox's Chase Carey to become chairman — Liberty Media, the cable TV group owned by John Malone, is closing in on a deal to take a significant stake in Formula …

Discussion: Sky News, Motorsport.com, Hollywood Reporter, Broadband TV News, Reuters, Advanced Television and The Drum

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.

Discussion: @stellaspoons, @roshart, @ipaulie, @pataphysician and ABC

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

How news organizations are testing Amazon's Alexa: interviews with NBC, Scripps' Newsy, The Washington Post, Slate, and Refinery29 — My routine most mornings these days goes like this: After snoozing my iPhone alarm at least twice, I roll over and say, “Alexa, give me my Flash Briefing.”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

MTV's Video Music Awards had 21M unique viewers on Snapchat, up 75% from last year, while its 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 …

Discussion: @jeffweiner

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

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 and ClickZ

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.

Discussion: @kajleers, @litquake, New York Times, The Verge, Co.Design, Fast Company, Publishers Weekly and Publishers Lunch

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