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12:45 PM ET, August 18, 2017

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Lauren Huff / Hollywood Reporter:
In email to friends, 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch criticizes Trump's response to Charlottesville tragedy and pledges $1M to Anti-Defamation League  —  In a memo, he also pledged a donation of $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.  —  The head of Fox News' parent company just took …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
When internet intermediaries like GoDaddy, Google, and CloudFlare bar neo-Nazis, dangerous precedent is set for silencing legitimate voices  —  In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that …
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Executive director Anthony Romero says ACLU will no longer defend groups seeking to march with firearms, deciding case by case, screening for possible violence  —  Executive director says violence and guns at Charlottesville rally spurred new stance  —  The American Civil Liberties Union …
Simon Rogers / Google:
Google News Lab and ProPublica launch a new machine learning tool to help journalists leverage hate crime data in their reporting  —  Hate crimes in America have historically been difficult to track since there is very little official data collected and what does exist …
Discussion: ProPublica, The Next Web, @smfrogers and Mic
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst is launching an incubator focused on making early-stage investments in women-led startups, aims to invest a total of $2.5M-$5M in ~10 companies a year  —  HearstLab over the past year has invested in 11 companies in media, information, or services  —  Hearst, the parent …
Discussion: @srabil and @larakiara
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
MSNBC finished Wednesday as the number one network across all of cable TV for the first time in its history  —  Whenever President Trump finds himself embroiled in controversy, the cable news networks often see their significant ratings improvement.  This has been especially true for MSNBC …
Discussion: Variety, Newser, @tylerc and @kenvogel
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google announces that YouTube TV is now available in 50% of US households, with continued rollout in coming weeks  —  Following July's expansionwhich tripled its footprint, Google today announced that YouTube TV is now available to 50 percent of U.S. households, thanks to a rollout to 14 new markets.
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Internal memo: Mic is laying off 25 staffers, primarily from its news and editorial departments, as it shifts focus to video and visual journalism  —  Mic.com laid off staffers on Thursday in what is part of a larger pivot to video that it will begin later this month.
David Meyer / ZDNet:
Munich appellate court backs Adblock Plus in lawsuit against RTL Interactive, ProSiebenSat.1, and Süddeutsche Zeitung  —  Publishers have failed again in their attempts to have ad blocking ruled illegal.  —  Germany's Eyeo, the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension that's used …
Discussion: @zdnet
 
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook starts offering in-stream-only video ad units that will play as users watch videos on Facebook
Discussion: AdExchanger
Eben Novy-Williams / Bloomberg:
Nielsen is launching a new division, Nielsen Esports, to quantify the rapidly growing industry for teams, sponsors, advertisers, and publishers
Discussion: @novy_williams
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The pro-Trump media is grappling with a post-Charlottesville identity crisis as it tries to distance itself from white nationalism while defending the president
Discussion: bookforum.com
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Electric Jukebox, a UK music streaming service that works through TVs, comes to US with launch of Roxi device for $199 and a subscription of $52 per year
Discussion: Forbes and RAIN News
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In unexpected move, HBO gave Vice go-ahead to post Charlottesville story to YouTube immediately after it aired on TV
George Slefo / Ad Age:
Verizon expects to resume buying video ads on YouTube after pulling them in March, under proviso third-party tests prove ads will not run near unsavoury content