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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:
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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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.
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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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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 …
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, hypebot, BetaNews, Business Insider, VideoInk, Music Business Worldwide, Engadget, The Verge and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
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.
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 …
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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 …
Seth Gecko / New Carlisle News:
Ohio photographer Andy Grimm of the New Carlisle News was shot by a cop at a traffic stop who may have mistaken Grimm's camera and tripod for a weapon — Deputy Shoots New Carlisle News Photographer — New Carlisle News photographer Andy Grimm was shot by a Clark County deputy Monday evening.
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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Melissa Bell / Vox Media:
As Vox Media plans four new shows for Facebook Watch, Publisher Melissa Bell sends memo reassuring staff there's no “pivot to video” and writing remains valued — A note from Vox Media Publisher Melissa Bell — Before Labor Day, Publisher Melissa Bell sent a letter to Vox Media about the company's approach to video.
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Nieman Lab, @voxmediainc, @lpolgreen and @backlon
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