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10:10 AM ET, July 21, 2018

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Washington Post:
Sources: in FBI-seized audio recording, Trump and Cohen discuss possible payment to National Enquirer parent AMI after media company paid Karen McDougal $150K  —  Two months before the 2016 election, longtime Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Ta-Nehisi Coates to leave the Atlantic saying, “I became the public face of the magazine in many ways and I don't really want to be that. I want to be a writer”  —  Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving his position as a national correspondent for the Atlantic, a publication where he has emerged …
Discussion: @amescg, New York Times and Slate
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news  —  The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information.  —  Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Remembering the eccentric Times Mirror Square as the Los Angeles Times moves out of its longtime downtown headquarters  —  The headlines from Washington — Nixon and the Watergate hearings — seemed far away as guests strolled through the new corporate headquarters for Times Mirror Co.
Discussion: Poynter and @mattdpearce
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions”  —  Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation.  The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
Pew Research Center:
Study shows 58% of Americans often get news on a mobile device, nearly triple the 21% who did so in 2013, outpacing desktops and laptops  —  Mobile devices have become one of the most common ways Americans get news, outpacing desktop or laptop computers.  Roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters moving from the Denver Post to the Colorado Sun is a sign that journalists from Texas to Tennessee increasingly see news startups as viable jobs  —  The politics desk at The Denver Post has imploded.  Starting in April with voluntary exits that included Brian Eason, a Statehouse reporter …
Abdi Latif Dahir / Quartz:
As more African governments restrict internet access, activists push back by calling them out, educating users on workarounds, and even hacking government sites  —  First, it was “gossip” that supposedly pushed Uganda's government to introduce a tax on social media use.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT tech reporter David Streitfeld on staying away from Twitter and Facebook, covering Amazon, and raising a child in a largely tech-free home  —  How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives?  David Streitfeld, a technology reporter …
Ricardo Lopez / Variety:
Time's Up and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to launch database of entertainment journalists and critics from underrepresented groups  —  Time's Up and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on Wednesday said it would be launching a database containing the names of entertainment journalists …
Scott Porch / Fast Company:
How Comcast is moving beyond the set top box as it rolls out its Xfinity X1 interface on smart TVs, starting with betas on Roku TV and some Samsung TVs  —  If you'd like to use the interface on Comcast's Xfinity X1 set-top box—and you should, it's fantastic—but aren't so sure about the box itself, stay tuned.
Discussion: @rsingel
 
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty may have acted in violation of laws protecting Americans from domestic propaganda by buying Facebook ads targeted at US users
Discussion: getrevue.co
Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz:
Report: Reed Hastings is writing a book about Netflix, his leadership strategy, and the company's culture, which will be published by Penguin Press in 2019
Discussion: Fast Company, CNET and Variety
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Court filings and interviews provide a timeline for the deterioration of Les Moonves' and Shari Redstone's relationship and reveal that neither wants a merger
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Editors re-examine how they covered 2016's email leaks and whether they have regrets after DOJ indictment: “You do have to think about who benefits”
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
The New York Post launches an entertainment division focused on scripted and unscripted TV to expand TV reach beyond syndicated daytime space
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed VP Michelle Kempner, once publisher of the company's Motion Pictures group, is leaving to join Facebook's product marketing team
Discussion: Digiday and Tubefilter