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11:10 AM ET, September 6, 2017

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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vimeo signs technology deal with Lionsgate, will power two of the studio's OTT services, Kevin Hart's online comedy network Laugh Out Loud and Tribeca Shortlist  —  Vimeo earlier this year scrapped plans to launch its own over-the-top subscription VOD service.
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 …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Podcast network Gimlet Media raises $5M from ad agency WPP, in addition to the $15M round it raised last month, bringing total raised to $27M  —  Tack this on to the $15 million it raised last month.  —  Yet another vote of confidence in podcasting — this time from the people who buy ads for a living …
Discussion: WPP
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
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.
tronc, inc.:
Tronc acquires outstanding interests of Daily News LP, owner of New York Daily News and NYDailyNews.com  —  Expands tronc Presence as Provider of Award-Winning Content Across Ten Major U.S. Media Markets  —  Combined Digital Platform Has Over 80 Million Unique Monthly Visitors
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Reuters:
SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS

Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
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