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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud closes $169.5M Series F funding round led by Raine Group and Temasek to stay afloat; former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replaces Alex Ljung as CEO — SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat.
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Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Source: Facebook approved release of iOS app in China called Colorful Balloons, which shares functionality and feel of FB Moments, via a separate local company — SHANGHAI — Facebook and many of its apps have been blocked in China for years. To change that, Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Breitbart's campaign against national security adviser H.R. McMaster seems to have done more damage to Steve Bannon — The chief White House strategist is increasingly isolated in the West Wing as new chief of staff John Kelly tries to clamp down on negative news stories.
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@lpdonovan, Mediaite, Mother Jones, AOL, @drudge_report, @oliverdarcy, @jacobkornbluh, @tarapalmeri, @politico and Splinter
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The departures of Lord and McEnany from CNN show that the network has made too many indefensible hires in the name of evenhandedness — With the departures of Jeffrey Lord and Kayleigh McEnany, CNN has suddenly become a less annoying cable network. — That's the good news.
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@ericmgarcia, @jamesfallows, @markfollman, @mattwilstein and The Daily Beast
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN cuts ties with commentator Jeffrey Lord after he replies “Sieg Heil!” in a Twitter discussion with the president of Media Matters for America
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
A look at Guam's biggest daily paper, the Gannett-owned Pacific Daily News, a 20-person outlet whose traffic now doubles when it posts a story on North Korea — Dana Williams has covered a lot of disasters during her three-decade career as a reporter and editor. — Hurricanes in Florida.
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New York Magazine, CNN, Media Matters for America, KTLA, The Daily Caller, BUSTLE, @deepakadk, @cait_duffy, @justinwingerter, @newsbyschmidt, @benmullin and The Week
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News competitors like The Blaze, Newsmax, and OANN seek to steal Fox viewers as the network goes through a tumultuous period — Glenn Beck's The Blaze, Newsmax TV, One America News Network and others are among the challengers: “There's no Pepsi to FNC's Coke yet.”
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Nyshka Chandran / CNBC:
Chinese regulators are investigating Tencent's WeChat, Baidu's Tieba, and Sina Weibo for user-generated content that “endangers national security” — - Tencent, Baidu and Sina Weibo are being investigated by Chinese cyber-security regulators for potential violations
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BuzzFeed:
About 10 activists turn their backs on Trump aide Omarosa Manigault during tense panel at the National Association of Black Journalists conference — “Walking into a room where you get shut down does not open a line of communication so change can happen," said one of the top African-American officials in the White House.
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Associated Press:
Don Alhart, now in his 51st year on-air at WHAM-TV in Rochester, officially holds the world record for longest career as a TV news broadcaster — https://apnews.com/8b9980282af4405e91de 5ba6d9d3bcde — Link copied! — ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — This just in: A New York television news …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
How Fox News rushed to publish a story about Seth Rich that it later retracted, with key source and Fox News pundit Rod Wheeler later suing the network — This is why the Seth Rich conspiracy won't disappear — For more than two months, Fox News has declined to explain the story behind …
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Vanity Fair, Inside Cable News, @sulliview and @matthewnussbaum
Chicago Tribune:
Jim Kirk, editor/publisher of Sun-Times, joins Tronc, parent of the Chicago Tribune, less than a month after local investors bought the Sun-Times — Jim Kirk, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, is joining Chicago Tribune parent Tronc as senior vice president of strategic initiatives.
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Richard Horgan / Adweek:
AMI's Men's Fitness will go all-digital in November as print subscriptions are switched over to newly acquired Men's Journal — At AMI, print is alive and well — The next watershed for Men's Journal, the 25-year-old monthly glossy acquired earlier this year by American Media Inc. from Wenner Media, will be the November 2017 issue.
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