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8:25 AM ET, August 30, 2017

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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sky will stop broadcasting Fox News in the UK as of September 5 at 4pm; sources say decision not connected to takeover bid, channel only draws 2K viewers a day  —  Sources say decision to stop broadcasting Fox News is not connected to Fox's £11.7bn takeover bid for Sky
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Scottish blogger Jason Michael McCann, who calls himself a journalist in his Twitter bio, defends his viral hoax tweet showing a shark in Houston's flood waters  —  “Of course I knew it was fake, it was part of the reason I shared the bloomin' thing.”  —  It was just before 6 a.m. in Dublin …
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Disney and its ABC television station, KTRK Houston, donate $1M to the American Red Cross to support its Harvey relief efforts  —  The Walt Disney Company and its owned ABC television station in Houston, KTRK, will commit $1 million to the American Red Cross for its Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, the company announced Tuesday.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Jeffrey Herbst, president and chief executive of the Newseum, steps down as board announces a financial review, which could trigger sale of its building  —  Jeffrey Herbst, president and chief executive of the Newseum, stepped down suddenly on Monday as the museum's board announced a full-blown review of its long-troubled finances.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Newseum, dedicated to free expression and awash in red ink, becomes a metaphor for the besieged state of the American press
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
District court judge dismisses defamation lawsuit against The New York Times by Sarah Palin for a June 14 editorial  —  Lawsuits against media outlets are piling up  —  A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple scrambles to land pricing deals with Hollywood on 4K content for its upcoming Apple TV; Apple wants to charge $20/movie, studios want $5-10 more  —  Tech giant wants to have major Hollywood films available in ultra-high definition on the new device
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube gets a redesign, including easier access to navigation tabs, new Library and Account tabs, variable speed playback on mobile, and a new logo  —  Earlier this year, YouTube introduced a major redesign of its desktop website which delivered a cleaner look and new features like a “dark mode” for nighttime watching.
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
ShowTime faces class-action lawsuit from customers who are suing the network over its in-app low quality stream of the McGregor-Mayweather fight  —  Grainy video, errors and buffering streams weren't what fans paid $99 to see, according to the lawsuit.  —  Before the sweat was dry …
Tanya Dua / Business Insider:
After eschewing them for years, BuzzFeed will introduce display ads to its homepage, story pages, and mobile apps, using 3rd-party ad tech to buy and sell them  —  - BuzzFeed is finally embracing banner ads  — The media company will let advertisers run display ads on its homepage, story pages, and mobile apps
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
How journalists have ramped up security protocols for communicating with sources amid the Trump administration's fight against leaks  —  How the administration has changed the game between investigative reporters and their government sources.  —  On July 6, the Senate Committee …
 
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Axel Springer teams with German non-media companies to launch Verimi alliance, which will offer a single login to better compete with Facebook-Google duopoly
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NFL debuted a new 30-minute live show, #NFLBlitz, on Twitter Tuesday night
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Joe Lemire / SportTechie:
How Intel's weekly MLB broadcast, run by a team of ~12 people, uses VR to give viewers new viewpoints within the game alongside director-led “VR-Cast” option
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
 
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