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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
US intel officials say UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatar News Agency and social media sites in late May to plant false statements, sparking regional crisis — The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed …
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Reuters, The Guardian, @nawafalthani, Motherboard, France 24, The Daily Caller, The Week, Forbes, @emptywheel, Reuters and Mother Jones, more at Techmeme »
Max Willens / Digiday:
Politico Pro has 20K subscribers and generates 50% of the site's annual revenue — On Monday, Politico is expected to announce a series of updates and a new product for Politico Pro, its subscription service, including a legislation compass that tracks the progress of bills making …
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@byersalex, @bryandbender, @michaelkruse, @digiday and @talkopan
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
ABC News launches The Briefing Room, a live digital program focusing on White House press briefings and political reporting from DC — ABC News is launching The Briefing Room today, a new, live digital program focusing on “White House press briefings and the latest political reporting from Washington …
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@rickklein and Mediaite
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $2.79B, vs. $2.76B expected, and total streaming subs grew 5.2M to 104M, vs. 3.2M expected; stock up 7%+ — Netflix added 5.2 million overall streaming subscribers in the second quarter of 2017, dramatically beating investor expectations for both U.S. and international growth.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Ad Age, Reuters, Recode and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Not all Republican lawmakers like Trump's fracas with the press, with some saying it is distracting from coverage of key issues like tax reform — “I love the media,” said the Freedom Caucus chairman. — Reporting From Washington, DC … You've read a lot about the Republican war on what Donald Trump calls fake news.
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Mediaite, @alexis_levinson, The Washington Journal and @katherinemiller
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Bob Wolff, a sports broadcaster since 1939 who was well known for his time with Redskins, Knicks, Pistons, Browns, and Colts, dies at 96 — Bob Wolff, who called Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the Giants-Baltimore Colts epic N.F.L. championship game in 1958 and the Knicks …
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Deadline, AOL, @keitholbermann, @keitholbermann and The Wrap
BBC:
The BBC's Doctor Who casts its first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, succeeding Peter Capaldi, who will leave during the Christmas special episode — Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role. — The new Doctor's identity …
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Variety, The Guardian, @bbcbreaking, Hollywood Reporter, @kfcloverleary, Recode, Brit + Co, @ghweldon, @parkermolloy, Fortune, Forbes, Washington Post, Telegraph, The Wrap, Screen Rant, The Verge, Nerdist, The Week, Rolling Stone, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter and ABC News
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity joins TYT Network, whose flagship show is The Young Turks, as head of programming — TYT Network, the online politics and entertainment news network, has hired Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity head of programming.
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Adweek, Tubefilter and @matchity
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
How 126 fact-checking organizations in 49 countries use WhatsApp, Facebook Live, Twitter, automation, and forensic tools to find falsehoods and spread truth — This is a report on the fourth Global Fact-Checking Summit, which Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Fact Checker attended. — MADRID — “Nos encanta la verdad.”
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@timothys and @omidyarnetwork
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Press Association EIC Peter Clifton says the news org is not replacing reporters with robots, after being awarded near $1M to develop an automated news project — Press Association editor-in-chief Peter Clifton has said he is “certainly not replacing reporters with robots” …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Gannett's local news teams are helping USA Today expand the frequency and scale of its VR projects by collaborating on pieces, writing companion articles, more — “We have to remember that not only we as content creators are new to VR, but so is our audience. For a lot of people, it's still very experiential."
The Drum:
Interview with Google's Madhav Chinnappa on the goals of the Digital News Initiative, projects like WikiTribune, and natural-language reporting tool Radar — Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) …
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