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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Atlantic endorses Clinton, its third endorsement in 159 years, but the impact of editorials against Trump remains unclear — The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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The Atlantic, The Wrap, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, @jonlovett, Daily Stormer, @jayrosen_nyu, Joe.My.God., @fordm, @existentialfish, @gabrieljr, @jgreendc, @obsoletedogma, @thedukewindsor, @jdrishel, @benjysarlin, Fox Business, Talking Points Memo, The Week, BillMoyers.com and bookforum.com
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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@willoremus, Mashable, TechCrunch, Fortune, Wired, @sarahfrier, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, @ericjackson, @puiwingtam, Engadget, @carlquintanilla, Vanity Fair, Variety, @digiphile, @jyarow and CNET
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: vice presidential debate drew 37.2M viewers on nine TV channels, the lowest number since the 2000 Cheney-Lieberman debate — Tuesday night's vice presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the VP debates in 2012 and 2008, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
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Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, Ad Age, Nielsen, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and The Week
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 Kindle books and magazines including Sports Illustrated — In addition to faster shipping for products from its online store, Amazon's Prime subscription plan offers numerous benefits, including unlimited photo storage …
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Nieman Lab, VentureBeat and Engadget
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
BuzzFeed attacked by hacker group OurMine after publishing story identifying a member; group alters articles, claimes to have seized database, threatens release — A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group.
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Gizmodo, CNBC, Mediaite, Guardian, @bernstein, @josephfcox, @miriamelder, Softpedia News, Mashable, The Drum and New York Magazine
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Sources: over next 2-5 years, AT&T will expand into original programming via acquisitions; CEO Stephenson has target list of 40+ companies, some worth $2B-$50B — @MoritzDispatch , More stories by Scott Moritz — Largest U.S. pay-TV provider wants to cut programming costs
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Consumerist, Light Reading and Fortune
Michelle Fields / The Huffington Post:
Sources: Glenn Beck's The Blaze, which once aimed to be a right-wing Huffington Post, has dropped from 25 editorial employees to 6; staffers feel it will close — Glenn Beck's The Blaze was once the envy of other right-leaning sites. Not anymore. — WASHINGTON Glenn Beck's website …
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FishbowlDC and Mediaite
Bertrand Pecquerie / Global Editors Network:
Interview with Matt Kelly, founder of post-Brexit newspaper The New European, on agility and profitability of a print publication with a well-defined audience — Launched right after the Brexit vote in the UK, The New European is a pop-up newspaper aimed at the audience who voted “no”.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @digidave, @davelucas and @ckrewson
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, where data-driven political journalism attracted 10M unique visitors last month — Photo: Harry Enten speaks during the FiveThirtyEight Live podcast in San Francisco, California, this June (Peter DaSilva / ESPN Images)
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@bypetevernon, @carlbialik, @thomaswilburn, @nicktheandersen and @albertocairo
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
The New York Times will move away from standardized banner ads on its website, replacing them with its own proprietary display ad formats, beginning today — Publisher to replace standardized banner ads with its own flexible format that works across devices and looks more ‘native’ to its site
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MediaPost
Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Shazam launches an iMessage app for easily identifying and sharing songs — Popular music-detecting app Shazam today rolled out an update that adds support for the service within Messages, so users can send new artist and song discoveries directly to friends and family members.
Wall Street Journal:
Netflix signs deal with theater chain iPic Entertainment to screen its original movies, which will debut on the streaming service simultaneously — Deal is the latest to expand streaming service's theatrical ambitions — Netflix Inc. signed a deal with luxury theater-chain iPic Entertainment …