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1:10 PM ET, August 24, 2017

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Jake Sherman / Politico:
WH director of rapid response Andy Hemming, who was paid to spot and distribute positive stories from the mainstream media, left his job on Monday  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Happy Thursday.  AN INTERESTING DATAPOINT — TONY FABRIZIO, whom the Trump campaign paid $1.29 million last year …
Luke O'Neil / Esquire:
Current and former Village Voice staffers, including food critic Robert Sietsema and film editor Alan Scherstuhl, reflect on their time at the paper  —  On Tuesday morning, Peter Barbey, owner of the Village Voice, assembled the staff of the storied but turbulent New York City alt-weekly for a meeting.
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Annalies Winny / The Guardian:   How some alt-weeklies without benefactors are setting up nonprofit arms to save local journalism across the US
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Trump follows long autocratic tradition by saying journalists “don't like our country” and are “trying to take away our history and heritage”  —  “This was incitement, plain and simple” ABC News correspondent Cecilia Vega said following Trump's Phoenix rally.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In late-night emails, Wall Street Journal Editor Gerard Baker criticized staff for coverage of Trump rally, describing story as commentary, not reporting  —  Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, has faced unease and frustration in his newsroom over his stewardship …
John Shinal / CNBC:
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos says the company shuts down 1M accounts per day to combat spam, hate speech, more  —  - Facebook closes more than 1 million accounts every day, with most of those created by spammers and fraudsters, security chief Alex Stamos says.  — Its ability to enforce …
Discussion: @mattrosoff and @mattnavarra
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Washington Post creates Own, an ad product for distributing branded content, which works by automation, and should result in 80-90% profit margins  —  Publishers are running into a wall with so-called native ads.  Once seen as the panacea for declining digital ad rates …
Discussion: @benmullin, @lmoses and @digiday
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Apple adds feature to Safari in iOS11 that strips out Google AMP URLs when a story is shared or copy and pasted  —  Apple is adding a subtle new feature to Safari in iOS 11 that will automatically strip out Google AMP URLs when a webpage is shared or copy and pasted, as spotted by MacStories editor Federico Viticci.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
TPM may add a morning email newsletter to its $50-per-year Prime membership program  —  Earlier this summer, we spoke with Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall about ways he was thinking about adding value to its $50-a-year Prime membership program:
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Left-leaning news website The Canary joins Impress to become the UK alternative press regulator's 66th member  —  Left-leaning news website The Canary has joined Royal Charter-backed press regulator Impress, describing the move as a “no-brainer”.  —  The website was launched in October 2015 …
Discussion: @leftoutside and @pressgazette
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New report finds that decentralization and other factors could protect speech online as “mega-platforms” amass greater gatekeeping powers  —  While platforms like Facebook have empowered users around the world to publish and browse the web and convene with friends online without …
Discussion: MediaShift and Marketplace
Brandon Shulleeta / Poynter:
SEC filing: Ross Levinsohn, new CEO and publisher of LA Times, will get starting salary of $1M, Tronc stock, and potential bonuses  —  The new CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times will have a starting salary of $1 million, and he's positioned to make much more depending on the financial success …
Discussion: TheStreet and LA Observed
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

 
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