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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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Report: Roku's market share among streaming media players in US is up to 37%, with Amazon's Fire TV at 24%, Chromecast at 18%, and Apple TV down to 15% — Roku isn't only maintaining its lead as the top streaming media player device in the U.S., it's increasing it.
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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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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify renews licensing deal with Warner Music Group, clearing last hurdle before going public — Look for a non-traditional IPO at the end of this year or early 2018. — Spotify has cleared what ought to be the last major hurdle before it goes public: It has renewed a licensing deal with Warner Music Group.
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Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot:
Daily Stormer returns as punishedstormer.com hosted by DreamHost, which is under DDoS attack — Daily Stormer, the notorious neo-Nazi and white supremacist website, is back on the open web under a new domain name. — The website, known for its racist, homophobic, misogynistic …
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Jack Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist who also worked as a government official and civic leader, has died at 82 — Jack Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, government official and civic leader who was the principal editor of a landmark 1968 federal report …
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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
US judge rules DreamHost must hand over user data from anti-Trump website to DoJ, but imposes limits and will vet which information DoJ uses — Information to be used for rioting cases, prosecutors say — About 200 charged for violent protests during inauguration
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DreamHost.blog, Reuters, @davidjoachim, @tschoenberg22, Techdirt and Hit & Run, more at Techmeme »
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.
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SlashGear, AppAdvice.com, MacRumors, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and The Loop, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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@benmullin, @lmoses and @digiday
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 …
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@jamesrbuk, @pressgazette, @alexgspence and @leftoutside
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.
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Mediaite, Washington Post, CNN, Editor & Publisher, @jimrutenberg, New York Times, @jamesfallows, HuffPost, @nytmedia, @wexler and Code Words
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:
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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 — An epidemic of free alternative newspaper closures has left many US cities with no local journalism at all. Is it too late to save them? — Cities is supported by — About this content
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