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4:05 PM ET, September 20, 2016

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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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
Discussion: @kollege, RAIN News and The Drum
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.
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
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
UK supermarket Sainsbury's to discontinue its Sainsbury's Entertainment on Demand service, outsources its e-books operation to Kobo, owned by Rakuten  —  Once again, a big retailer in the UK is pulling away from its ambitions to move into digital media.  Supermarket giant Sainsbury's preparing …
Discussion: The Wrap, Engadget and The Bookseller
 
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Oriana Schwindt / The Wrap:
Chernin Group-backed digital studio Gunpowder & Sky acquires distribution company FilmBuff, renames itself GunPowder & Sky Distribution
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Profile of Joe Seales, CEO of Right Side Broadcasting Network, the website best known for its YouTube channel that live-streams almost every Donald Trump speech
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