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Wenner Media has hired bankers to explore sale of its controlling interest in Rolling Stone; both Jann and Gus Wenner hope to stay on at the magazine — From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers.
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Newser, NBC News, Mashable, The Drum, Variety, The Week, @rafat, @daweiner, Consequence of Sound and Financial Times


Snap says it has complied with Saudi Arabia's request to block access to Al Jazeera content, including articles and videos, for users in the country — Snap said it is following a request from the Saudi government; Al Jazeera calls move an ‘attempt to silence freedom of expression’
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TechCrunch, Fast Company and Engadget


Users' reactions to “disputed” labels on Facebook are largely irrelevant as those labels are more about reducing reach of false stories and training algorithms — When it comes to Facebook's effort to stop the flow of misinformation on its platform, the labels can be misleading …
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The Guardian, more at Techmeme »


Pew survey: 61% of people ages 18-29 say they primarily watch TV via streaming services; 31% say they mostly watch via cable or satellite subscription — The rise of online streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Go has dramatically altered the media habits of Americans, especially young adults.
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Business Insider


Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
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Fast Company, Fortune, Business Insider, New York Times, The Wrap and @brianstelter, more at Techmeme »


Interview with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and other execs, on Vogue's 125th anniversary, whether it's lost influence, creating memorable content, more — In a rare interview, Vogue's famed editor in chief discusses the title's September issue, the Internet — and influence.


Hatem El-Gamasy, a NYC bodega owner, has appeared frequently on Egyptian TV since he wrote an article predicting Trump's win, which was spotted by producers — Hatem El-Gamasy often appears as a pundit for Egyptian television news programs. His viewers don't know his day job: He owns a bodega in Queens.
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@mazmhussain, @tomgara, @mlcalderone and @ddale8

Why it took so long for news outlets to examine the dubious sources of Kevin Deutsch, who spent 15 years as a crime reporter at five newspapers — Kevin Deutsch's professional life has become a hash of denials and self-justification, a running argument with his doubters.
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@farhip and @nikkiusher

UK press regulator IPSO forces The Mail on Sunday to acknowledge that an article about NOAA climate change research was inaccurate and misleading — A self-policing group within the British news industry has forced the tabloid The Mail on Sunday to acknowledge that an article it published asserting …
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Daily Mail, @williamjordann, @richardabetts, @remikalir, @jswatz and The Guardian


Profile of Spotify's Tuma Basa, who runs its 50-song RapCaviar playlist, followed by 7.67M+ users, on how he finds music, the playlist's influence, more — In this, the year hip-hop won the music business, one of its defining hits was released more or less by mistake.

Chrome 64, coming January 2018, will allow autoplay video only when media has no sound or the user shows interest in content — Users watch and listen to a lot of media, and autoplay can make it faster and easier to consume on the web. However, one of the most frequent user concerns …
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Business Insider


Lessons from Seth Rich story, 4 months after Fox retracted it with no explanation: investigations must be ironclad, don't lead witnesses, transparency matters — On Monday, lawyers for Fox News must submit court filings addressing how the network mishandled a story about the unsolved killing …