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8:15 AM ET, July 16, 2018

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Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Judge orders LA Times to remove details from a story about a sealed plea agreement made public by mistake on PACER; LAT does so but plans to contest order  —  A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors …
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit  —  With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner …
Pew Research Center:
Retransmission revenues for US local TV stations grew to $9B in 2017 from $8B in 2016, but the audience for local TV news dropped 15% YoY  —  MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA  —  While television remains the most common place for Americans to get their news, with local TV outpacing cable …
Discussion: Pew Research Center
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Daniella Greenbaum / Washington Post:
As the policing of speech, largely by mobs on social media, becomes normalized, the would-be targets of censorship must reject the notion of “acceptable” views
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
With “Who Is America?”, Sacha Baron Cohen pits bad faith against bad faith political actors of the Trump era that traditional outlets have struggled to cover  —  Sacha Baron Cohen — a consummate troll himself — is a perfect foil to the current political climate of grift and trolling.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Investment firm KKR buys RBmedia, a major producer of audiobooks and spoken content; deal expected to close by early fall, terms not disclosed  —  Investment firm estimates consumers will spend $900 million on audiobooks in 2018  —  Investment firm KKR KKR -0.26% has agreed to acquire RBmedia …
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
White House cancels CNN interview with National Security Advisor John Bolton after interaction between Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta at UK press conference  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the White House decided to cancel an interview between CNN …
Judd Slivka / Nieman Lab:
A proposed law would make it a civil offense to fly drones over private property below 200 feet without permission, even if newsworthy events are occurring  —  Imagine if a news photographer at a football game had to get permission from every single person in the stadium before taking a single shot …
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
How a small Alabama paper grew its digital ad revenue in 2017 from $56k to $104k with mobile video reporting and by filming sports on Facebook Live  —  A bet on live video, a busy news year, and maximizing staff talents let the Alexander City Outlook increase its digital ad revenue 80 percent in a year's time.
Discussion: @liziarbogast and Nieman Lab
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: HBO employees were not alarmed by AT&T CEO John Stankey's comments, with many agreeing that the network needs to scale  —  Within HBO, many view the reaction to new overlord John Stankey's occasionally ham-fisted comments as overblown.  “They need this to work,” says one producer …
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
ThinkProgress founder and EIC Judd Legum explains why he is leaving his current job to launch a paid political newsletter Popular Information  —  ONE OF THE few things people agree on in 2018 is that the news industry is broken.  The old business models don't work.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
USA Today Network's feel-good video series HumanKind, AnimalKind, MilitaryKind on Facebook Watch have 9M+ followers and generated 140M views in May and June  —  USA Today Network has found that people still love to watch feel-good videos on Facebook — and they're helping the publisher make some money on the platform.
 
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Chloe Aiello / CNBC:
Policy heads from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter will testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 17 about social media content moderation practices
Discussion: Reuters