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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: Charlie Rose will be sitting down with Stephen Bannon at Breitbart's offices today for an interview which will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday — Good Wednesday morning. A little bird tells me that Steve Bannon will be receiving a visitor today at the Breitbart Embassy, where he's keeping his hands on his weapons.
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New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, VentureBeat, The Daily Caller, The Week, USA Today, CBS Philly, Fortune, Fast Company, The Ringer - All, TechCrunch, Engadget, AppAdvice.com, The Wrap, Mashable, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Verge, New York Magazine, MacRumors, BGR, GeekWire, 9to5Mac and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Sources describe fallout for the new CNN Investigates unit after retracting a Scaramucci story and firing three journalists: scope narrowed, KFILE team moved — Created with much fanfare, CNN's investigative unit was reshaped and its focus narrowed in the wake of a story that led to a retraction and an apology.
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@mlcalderone, @mikiebarb, The Daily Caller, @buzzfeedben, @yochidreazen, @kelseymsutton, @melbournecoal and @jasonabbruzzese
Todd Spangler / Variety:
E.W. Scripps' online news network Newsy to launch as a cable TV channel, after Scripps buys carriage contracts from RLTV — As traditional TV players keep hunting for new digital inroads, E.W. Scripps' online news network Newsy is going the other way — it's landing a spot on the cable TV dial.
Discussion:
Multichannel News and TVNewser
Bloomberg:
Sources: Facebook offers labels “hundreds of millions of dollars” to cover infringing music in user-uploaded videos, as it improves copyright flagging tech — Would allow users to legally include songs in uploaded videos — Social network is challenging YouTube as hub for video on web
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@lucas_shaw, Plagiarism Today, MacRumors, Tubefilter, hypebot, BetaNews, Business Insider, VideoInk, Music Business Worldwide, Engadget, The Verge and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates iOS app, letting users with 100+ subscribers live stream what's on their iPhone's screen, following Android version — YouTube today is rolling out several features to make itself more appealing to live streamers, including video game streamers, as the battle with rivals …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Tubefilter, Android Police, @fullscreennet, @scomo843, @squaredd_, BGR, Multichannel News, Polygon, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Variety, VentureBeat and AppAdvice.com, more at Techmeme »
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
How media companies including Bustle, New Form Digital, and WeBuyGold are creating episodic series for Instagram Stories — Bustle, New Form Digital and WeBuyGold have started producing original programs for Facebook's other fledgling video service. — At the same time as Facebook …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku launches its own channel for users of its streaming players, sticks, and TVs, offers ad-supported content, including movies from studios like Warner Bros. — Roku, a company capitalizing on the cord cutting trend to the tune of a $100 million IPO, is today launching its own channel …
Discussion:
AdExchanger and Tubefilter
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Axel Springer's Upday news app now has 13M users, up from 8.5M in February, and now drives 4M visitors a day to nearly 3500 publishers — One key plank in Axel Springer's resistance to the duopoly: Upday, an 18-month-old pan-European news app that comes installed on Samsung phones.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The BBC has commissioned an audited report into its gender pay gap, which was revealed after it was forced to reveal the salaries of its top stars — The BBC has commissioned a report into the gender pay gap uncovered at the corporation after it was forced to reveal the salaries of its top-earning on-air talent earlier this year.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Digital Content Next, which includes The New York Times, AP, and more, calls out NRA for incendiary language that may incite violence against journalists — A trade group that represents The New York Times, the Associated Press and other major publishers is calling out the NRA …
Discussion:
Media Matters for America, The New York Observer, @dloesch, @shannonrwatts and @sulliview
CNNMoney:
Interview with Clyde and Maggie Haberman, the New York Times' father-daughter combo, on making the front page together, covering Trump, Twitter journalism, more — Clyde Haberman has seen a lot in his 40 years writing for The New York Times, but he had never seen this.
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon launches rewards program for customers who agree to share more complete access to personal info, including app usage and browser history — The company offers concert tickets and other rewards in exchange for customers' personal information — A new Verizon Communications Inc. VZ …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, @davezatz, MediaPost, Mashable, Fortune and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Source: Mort Zuckerman sold The New York Daily News to Tronc for nothing, in a bid to offload its ~$61.2M in liabilities — Bupkis. — The New York Daily News is one of the biggest newspapers in the country. It's an influential voice in the biggest city in the country. Earlier this year, it won a Pulitzer.
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Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, New York Times, @kdoctor and @raju
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