Mediagazer: Discovery Communications signs long-term carriage deal with AT&T, including DirecTV Now streaming service and TV Everywhere (Jon Lafayette/Broadcasting & Cable)

6:35 PM ET, September 8, 2016

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Donald Trump's nomination is causing publications that don't make endorsements, like Wired and Scientific American, to come out against him this election season — What does it mean to be a Republican? Variations of the question have been posed ad nauseum over the past year as reality TV star …

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Twitter update lets users subscribe to live video notifications from individual accounts, alerts them when accounts go live on Periscope — Twitter has been investing in live video lately as it continues to push Periscope and premium deals with professional sports leagues.

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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

Discovery Communications signs long-term carriage deal with AT&T, including DirecTV Now streaming service and TV Everywhere — Discovery Communications said it signed a new long-term carriage agreement with AT&T. — Discovery said the new deal distributes its networks to DirecTV …

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Bloomberg:

Digital media companies including Vice and BuzzFeed are increasingly being propped up by the old media they're trying to unseat — We wrote a few months ago about how many of the prominent digital news and entertainment newcomers including BuzzFeed and Vice Media are backed or owned …

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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:

Students at Roger Ailes' alma mater, Ohio University, vote to have his name removed from a school newsroom he helped fund — Roger Ailes' departure from Fox News has roiled the network's newsroom, but it has also upset the newsroom at Ohio University. — Students at Ailes' alma mater …

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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

Q&A with Xavier Grangier, Libération's head of digital, on increasing subscribers by changing to a metered paywall based on visits rather than articles — French daily newspaper Libération has shifted its approach to its paywall, loosening it up for its most loyal readers …

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Inside Verizon's struggle to build a streaming video business with Go90, its new mobile video app, in an environment dominated by Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube — This article is from Pulse, Digiday's quarterly print magazine about the modernization of media.

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