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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Three CNN staffers resign after retracted Russia-Scaramucci story: reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau, and CNN Investigates executive editor Lex Haris — Thomas Frank, a reporter for “CNN Investigates,” last Thursday appeared to have a compelling exclusive on the story of the year.
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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?
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Facebook video ad viewability rates range from 20% to 30%, far below the industry average, according to nine agency execs who started using third-party auditors — Facebook's metrics woes may be far from over. — After fessing up to a string of measurement errors over the past six months …
Jennings Brown / Gizmodo:
Zillow sends cease and desist letter to architectural criticism blog McMansion Hell for using its images for parody — Real estate aggregator site Zillow has sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of McMansion Hell, the most popular lampooner of suburban ticky-tacky monstrosities.
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Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
Sofia Vergara's Latino-focused media company Raze launches a mobile-first digital platform — Mobile-first portal can be accessed at raze.tv — Raze, the Latino-focused media company founded by “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara and longtime entertainment execs Emiliano Calemzuk and Luis Balaguer …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Ex-US attorney Preet Bharara will join Some Spider Studios, his brother's media company, as EVP, and will write articles for the firm's entertainment site, Cafe — Since Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, was abruptly fired in March by President Trump, speculation has swirled about what he would do next.
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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 …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Danny Sullivan, chief content officer at Third Door Media, publisher of Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, is moving into an advisory role with the company — After 21 years running sites about and covering digital and search marketing, it's time for a change.
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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 …
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