Mediagazer: Uptime, YouTube's experimental app for watching videos with friends, opens to all (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6:50 PM ET, June 26, 2017

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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:

Profile of American Media CEO David Pecker, a longtime friend of Trump who says the National Enquirer supports the president because its readers do — The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Vimeo says it will not be launching the subscription video service it announced three years ago — Cross one off the list. — Everyone wants to sell internet video subscriptions. Except Vimeo: IAC's video unit, which had announced three years ago that it wanted to launch …

Discussion: Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Ad Age, Home Media Magazine, TheStreet, IndieWire, @pkafka, The Verge, Engadget, Tubefilter, The Wrap, @pkafka, @pkafka and @pkafka, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sources: Pandora founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down, will likely stay until a replacement is found — The streaming music giant doesn't have a replacement for its founder lined up. — Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down as the streaming music company's leader …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Fox Sports is eliminating its ~20-person web writing staff, based in Los Angeles, to invest in online video production — About 20 staffers will lose jobs in department's transition — Fox Sports 1 gains in ratings against ESPN with opinion shows — 21st Century Fox Inc.'s sports department …

Discussion: Multichannel News, @lucas_shaw, Radio & Television …, TVNewser, Awful Announcing, @yourmandevine, @chrisvannini, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Three CNN employees resign over retracted story on Russia ties — Thomas Frank, a reporter for “CNN Investigates,” last Thursday appeared to have a compelling exclusive on the story of the year. The Senate Intelligence Committee, reported Frank, was investigating a Russian investment fund …

Discussion: CNNMoney, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @brianstelter, CNN and The Gateway Pundit

Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
Source: CNNMoney executive editor Rich Barberi tells staff not to publish any content involving Russia before clearing with him and a CNN VP

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, TVNewser, The Wrap, Mediaite, Talking Biz News, @passantino and @nickpistor

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Uptime, YouTube's experimental app for watching videos with friends, opens to all — YouTube's experimental app Uptime, which lets you watch videos with friends while reacting and commenting, has now opened up to all users. The app was first launched in March of this year …

Discussion: Adweek, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, iClarified, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

NPR is planning to roll out a regional hub system to make it easier for local stations to share resources, with plans to launch four pilots in the next year — NPR's top news executive announced plans to roll out a regional hub system at a speech for the Public Radio News Directors convention in Miami on Friday.

Discussion: @kellymcb, @mdy1, @kristenhare, @atompkins and @benmullin

Policy / blog.twitter.com:

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube form Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, building on EU Internet Forum, Shared Industry Hash Database initiatives — Today, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are announcing the formation of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism …

Discussion: Forbes, Adweek, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Fortune, The Next Web, Microsoft on the Issues, Engadget, The Verge and Mashable, more at Techmeme »

The Conversation:

News and commentary site The Conversation launches in Canada, will be run by University of British Columbia professors Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida — The launch of The Conversation Canada is an opportunity to contribute to the quality of explanatory journalism in this country …

Discussion: Globe and Mail, @scott_white, @kathyenglish and @stephenkhan

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Facebook courts talent agencies as it prepares to debut TV-quality shows by late summer with budgets of up to $3M/episode, as well as short-form videos — Facebook is talking to Hollywood studios and agencies about producing TV-quality shows with an eye toward launching original programming …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, The Wrap, @shalini, Vanity Fair, Light Reading, AOL, BGR, Tubefilter, VideoNuze Analysis, The Verge, Business Insider, Axios, Fortune, CNBC, Marketing Week, @jkaonline, Fast Company and Engadget

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Wired:

A look at some Alt-Right wiki sites, which were created as an alternative to Wikipedia and its perceived liberal bias — Vox Day thinks that Wikipedia is the worst. But the things that bug him aren't the typical complaints you'll hear about the crowd-sourced encyclopedia …

Sheila N. Dang / Reuters:

Time Inc. licences Fortune brand to Barclays for stock indexes based on Fortune 500 — Time Inc (TIME.N) said Monday it will license its Fortune brand for stock indexes based on the Fortune 500 in a new partnership with Barclays PLC (BARC.L) in an effort to diversify Time's revenue into the growing index-investing business.

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