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11:45 AM ET, August 21, 2017

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Steve Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he's going to start a network  —  Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into “Bannon the Barbarian” mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Inside Spiegel's 60+ year-old “dokumentation” team, a fact-checking group of 70 specialists who work with journalists in a consultative role  —  German media company Spiegel-Gruppe has had a fact-checking team since the 1950s, several years after its print weekly magazine, Der Spiegel, published its first issue.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC World Service to launch 12 new language services as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s, with the first launching today in West Africa  —  The BBC World Service has today launched the first of 12 new language services as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s, backed by £289m in Government funding.
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Yuyu Chen / Digiday:
Sources: the current rise in political tensions is leading brands to avoid advertising on mainstream news sites, with some avoiding Fox News in particular  —  Political tensions have reached a point where some brands are perceiving mainstream news outlets as too controversial, leading media buyers to pull ads from those sites.
Discussion: @steverubel
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Breitbart has apologized, after it used a photo of a famous German soccer player on an AFP story about a gang ferrying immigrants to Spain on jet skis  —  Breitbart News apologized Sunday after using an image of soccer star Lukas Podolski to illustrate a story about migrants traveling to Spain on jet skis.
Discussion: Agence France-Presse and Slate
Conor Sullivan / Financial Times:
London Assembly economic committee to issue report saying local papers' decline undermines democracy, sped by some councils' taxpayer-funded “news” publishing  —  The decline of local newspapers is undermining democracy and is being quickened by some councils producing their own …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at challenges facing Verizon's Oath as the integration of NYC's AOL and SV's Yahoo struggles along, after 2,100 were laid off in mid-June  —  Can two once-great Internet behemoths come together harmoniously in an age of mergers, roll-ups, and distribution plays?
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Inside Pop-Up Newsroom, which launched in June to foster innovation in newsgathering, partly inspired by Electionland  —  The project will document the learnings from each Pop-Up Newsroom to allow anyone in the industry to build on the findings  —  Credit: Screenshot from Pop-Up Newsroom
Discussion: newsrewired and @mattcooke_uk
Emily Steel / New York Times:
James Murdoch's letter and ADL pledge prompt speculation about whether they signal change at Murdoch-controlled conservative media empire  —  At 5:55 p.m. on Thursday, James Murdoch sent an email to a list of blind-copied recipients offering a striking repudiation of President Trump and a pledge …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: government review of AT&T's $85B takeover of Time Warner has reached an advanced stage, as AT&T lawyers discuss merger conditions with the DoJ  —  Markets are also growing more optimistic about the $85 billion takeover deal's chances  —  The government review …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Girls Night In, an online publication with a newsletter boasting 12K+ subscribers, which aims to connect women online and through events  —  “We are helping serve the need for women to take a break, relax, and recharge.”  —  Women (especially the more introverted among us) …
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
US judge dismisses lawsuit by the former head of Venezuela's National Assembly accusing The Wall Street Journal of libeling him  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the former head of Venezuela's National Assembly accusing The Wall Street Journal of libeling …
 
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