Top News:
Mike Klein / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Sunlight Foundation exploring merger or alliances with other organizations, will discontinue tool building and database maintenance, will retire OpenCongress — The board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation has reached some important conclusions about our future.
Discussion:
@derekwillis, Fast Company, @digiphile, @digiphile, Poynter, @digiphile, @dangillmor, @b_fung, @zfurnas, @raju, @jgreendc and @digiphile
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Snowden may have broken the law but it was to serve his country, publicizing mass surveillance measures, some of which were illegal - he deserves a pardon — President Obama's administration has an unfortunate record of prosecuting whistleblowers, some of whom have been important sources for journalists.
Discussion:
FishbowlDC, @jayrosen_nyu, @sulliview, @hatr, @lynndombek, @jameeljaffer, @jeffjarvis, @muckrakery, @barryeisler, @dangillmor, @tombuerkle, @judytrinhcbc, @abeaujon, @alexand3rthemeh, @aretvet, @jfdulac, @nylibertariann, @bryfitz, @travislylesnews, @wplyndarobinson, @ggreenwald and @dankennedy_nu
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Cable news' panicked coverage of the pipe bomb explosions gives us the impression that we are at risk, despite that modern life is safer than ever — Goaded by politicians and cable, a safer-than-ever America goes into full red alert mode. — In a rational world, we would interpret …
Discussion:
New York Times, RT, The Daily Beast, Guardian, @mikemadden, @sarahkendzior, @nprkelly, @codeaud, The Hill, FishbowlDC, AOL, NPR, GeekWire, Business Insider, Computerworld, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, CNET, Vanity Fair, The Week, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, @nprdancharles, @byrontau, @jackshafer, @teddunne, @zackstanton, @bazzinyu, @politico and @brianstelter
Jason Zengerle / GQ:
Profile of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, on his relationship with Mika Brzezinski, presidential aspirations, and his in-the-works musical about Donald Trump — Erstwhile congressman and current TV host Joe Scarborough in the studio, at work on his new musical. For real. — Photographs by
Discussion:
CNNMoney, FTVLive, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
The New York Times partners with Google Jigsaw for comment moderation, sharing comment archive with Jigsaw and using predictive models to help moderators — The New York Times is working together with Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Alphabet, Google's parent company, to improve and expand its comments section.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ABC News teams up with Facebook to live stream the 2016 general election debates — No TV? No problem - you can still catch the debates. This morning, ABC News and Facebook announced they are again teaming up to bring live coverage of the U.S. 2016 Presidential election to the social network …
Discussion:
SocialTimes
Jake Kanter / Business Insider:
Barb ratings: Viceland debuts in UK, averages 5.5K viewers, hitting a peak of 17.2K but captures 0% of key 16-34 demographic between 8pm and 2am — Viceland made a very quiet start to life on British television. — Vice's television channel launched on slot 153 on Sky late Monday morning …
Discussion:
@rmcomedy, @jake_kanter and @dan_rowinski
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
The Atlantic used underwriting from sponsors including Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and Netflix to fund three new video projects which will roll out in October — The Atlantic's video business may not have the scale of a BuzzFeed or Vice, but it's attracting sponsors for some of its more ambitious projects.
Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:
Vox Media, owner of The Verge and Recode, has asked its VP of International, Jonathan Hunt, to consider opportunities for foreign expansion, devise a strategy — Vox Media Inc., the company that operates The Verge and Recode technology news sites, is preparing to expand internationally …
Discussion:
Publishing Executive, @stefannicolabbg and @mattyglesias
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Radio 1 aims to move away from the broadcast schedule with a “phone-first” strategy that starts with commissioning 25 hours of on-demand programming — Controller Ben Cooper says station's on-demand programming should be on a par with live on-air programming
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gerry Lenfest buys Empirical Media Advisors and hires its CEO Jim Friedlich as executive director of the Institute of Journalism in New Media in Philadelphia — After nine months of searching, Philadelphia philanthropist Gerry Lenfest has found someone to lead the nonprofit to which he donated the city's two newspapers.
Discussion:
@dicktofel, @davisshaver, @swischnowski, @crovitz, @jimfriedlich, Philly.com, @raju and Poynter
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Callie Schweitzer, Time Inc.'s editorial director for audience strategy, joins Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global as managing editor — With her namesake news website, Arianna Huffington helped change digital media. She has a loftier ambition for Thrive Global, her new corporate wellness company.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, @marklittlenews and @ariannahuff
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Draft RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales — Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
Discussion:
AppleInsider, RIAA, Cult of Mac, The Verge, MacRumors and Recode
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
