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11:35 AM ET, August 3, 2017

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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Andrew Feinberg, who was fired as Sputnik White House reporter in late May, said he was pushed to advance the Seth Rich story, said no, and was then fired  —  WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory …
Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg:
Source: Fox is in talks with Ion Media to operate local TV stations across the US, potentially paving the way for Fox to dump Sinclair as an affiliate partner  —  Joint venture is said to include Ion, Fox-owned stations  —  Fox is said to mull moving affiliation from Sinclair channels
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The Atlantic:
New York Times reporter Rachel Donadio joins The Atlantic as a culture and politics writer based in Paris  —  Washington, D.C. (August 3, 2017)—As The Atlantic continues to expand internationally, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today the addition of three journalists to its global reporting team.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:   Facebook-Google duopoly over online advertising has survived multiple challenges, such as Snap's rise, increasing worry among publishers and some advertisers
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Trade group predicts US TV antenna sales will rise 7% in 2017 to nearly 8M units as millennial cord cutters discover free TV signals  —  Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing  —  Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts
Julia Dahl / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reflections on writing for the New York Post and how reporter and subject interactions, for the sake of clicks, shape society's perception of news media  —  A man waiting at a New York City intersection reads a copy of the New York Post.  (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision posts Q2 profit of $106.1M, up from $74.7M a year ago, with core revenue increasing 5.3% YoY to $753.5M  —  The Spanish-language media giant, led by CEO Randy Falco, has been eyeing an IPO, and media mogul John Malone reportedly recently approached its owners about buying a big stake.
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Trey Williams / MarketWatch:
Gannett reports total Q2 revenue of $774.5M, up from $748.8M the prior year, with digital ad revenue increasing 1.3% to $99.5M  —  Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. Inc. GCI, +2.01% on Thursday reported a profit for the second quarter that came in above Wall Street's expectations.
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Site supported by German Marshall Fund tracks Russian-supported disinfo on Twitter; Alliance for Securing Democracy plans analyses for Facebook, Reddit, YouTube  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A website launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
WikiTribune names Peter Bale, former CEO of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington DC, as launch editor, says it is on track to launch around September  —  The new initiative from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will see professional journalists working together with the community
Discussion: WikiTribune and Alphr
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tronc reports Q2 net income of $6.8M on $370M revenue; digital ad revenue fell 9% YoY, and total ad revenue fell 15% YoY; digital subs grew 22% in Q2 to 220K
Discussion: tronc, inc.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex brings its Live TV streaming service and DVR to Apple TV and Android, adds “time-shifting” feature to pause, rewind, and fast-forward through live TV
Discussion: Digital Trends
Rafat Ali / Skift:
Lessons on Skift's fifth birthday: value curiosity, camaraderie, and consistency, ignore competitors, and keep things simple
Diana Marszalek / Broadcasting & Cable:
Layer3 TV, available in Los Angeles, Chicago, DC, Dallas, Denver, and soon NYC, adds E.W. Scripps-owned Newsy Live, a news channel aimed at millennials
Discussion: Multichannel News
Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:
Inside the death of Sporting News, America's oldest sports publication, as UK owner Perform Media turns it into a marketing vehicle
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Financial Times union members unanimously vote to strike if necessary in order to urge the news outlet to fix pay inequities
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
HBO security contractor says hackers stole “thousands of internal documents” in addition to episodes and have leaked personal info of a senior HBO executive
BuzzFeed:
A look at MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin and NBC Nightly News writer Bradd Jaffy, who have amassed large Twitter followings by posting breaking news constantly
Facebook:
Facebook says it will start ranking faster loading web pages higher in News Feed over the coming months, warns that some sites could face a fall in traffic
Vicky Ward / HuffPost:
Fired White House comms chief Anthony Scaramucci speaks out about his rant to The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, claims “spirit” of the chat was off the record
 

 
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Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
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Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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