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9:40 AM ET, July 22, 2018

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Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies of pancreatic cancer at 57  —  Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders' briefings include obfuscation and disputes of basic facts as the press secretary fights to control facts, truths, and common knowledge  —  On wednesday, two representatives of the United States government held press briefings, both of them touching …
Discussion: ABC News, The Wrap, Mediaite and Politico
Bloomberg:
Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation  —  Sitting cross-legged on a charpoy, an Indian day bed, Mahaveer Prasad Khileri taps on his laptop, his face lit by the screen …
Discussion: iftf.org
Chris Welch / The Verge:
In an interview, Roku's CEO discusses how it is growing its ad business and software licensing to OEMs, which generated more revenues than device sales as of Q1  —  Roku wants to build out a ‘big, next-generation’ targeted ad platform  —  Roku sells more dedicated streaming devices than perhaps any other company in the world.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Study of 3,000 US adults: users are more likely to trust news when they do not see identifying source info; Vox, Fox, and Breitbart trusted least when labeled  —  Not that they can remember the source five minutes later, anyway.  —  People don't always remember the precise source of their news.
Discussion: Poynter
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Kimberly Guilfoyle abruptly leaves Fox News; sources say she may take a job at the non-profit America First Policies and join Trump Jr. on the campaign trail  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to campaign with Donald Trump Jr.  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Fox News host and one of the network's top stars …
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
As LA Times moves to new offices, the owner Patrick Soon-Shiong talks about his plans for the paper, competition with NYT and WaPo, and why he moved into media  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong despises clickbait and says the future belongs to quality journalism.  Will his gamble pay off?
Discussion: @palewire
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 …
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Inside Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro's efforts to use AI, Alexa voice actions, and automation for their World Cup reporting  —  Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro have tapped into AI, voice AI, and automation for their World Cup reporting.  —  The World Cup 2018 is all over.
Thanks:@geninnovate
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The success of the In the Dark podcast's donor-only Facebook group, with $50 minimum donation to join and 250+ members, shows how publishers can monetize groups  —  The podcast has found opportunity with a donors-only Facebook group.  Its second-season subject Curtis Flowers is still in prison …
Discussion: Mississippi Today
Simon Dumenco / Ad Age:
Q&A with Eric Gillin and Amiel Stanek of Basically, a millennial foodie brand, on how video has made recipes evolve, the pros of SEO, and making less content  —  Under Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport, Condé Nast's venerable food magazine Bon Appétit has been on an extended hot streak.
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, and CMC are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B  —  Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, the two biggest names in China's technology industry, are in talks to buy a stake in the $2.5bn (£1.9bn) Chinese operations of WPP Group.
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Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions”
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Washington Post:
US Senate candidate accuses NYT reporter Stephanie Saul of breaking into an aide's apartment after Saul left an interview request note with a houseguest
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As more African governments restrict internet access, activists push back by calling them out, educating users on workarounds, and even hacking government sites
 

 
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