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7:45 AM ET, August 21, 2018

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While Boston Globe-led wave of editorials was mostly symbolic, more practical collaboration is needed from joint reporting to rebuffing attacks on 1st Amendment  —  Last Thursday, in a show of unity, hundreds of American newspapers published editorials celebrating the press as a pillar …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election  —  Is it enough?  —  Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
New York Times international news editor Sewell Chan is joining the Los Angeles Times as deputy managing editor  —  Longtime New York Times editor Sewell Chan will be joining the Los Angeles Times as a deputy managing editor, the paper announced on Monday.  He will report the the paper's …
Kashmir Hill / Jezebel:
While journalists generalize when writing about complex issues, NYT's omission of Mary Stone Ross from its deep dive on CA privacy law is odd given her key role  —  The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS streaming service CBS All Access' limited ads tier is now available on Amazon Prime Video Channels for $5.99 per month  —  The limited-commercials tier of CBS All Access, CBS's subscription VOD and live TV service, is now available on Amazon's Prime Video Channels.
NLGJA:
New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan named inaugural recipient of the NLGJA Leadership Award  —  WASHINGTON, DC - Today NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists announces that The New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan is the inaugural recipient of the new NLGJA Leadership Award.
Discussion: Poynter
Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
Legislation tracking company FiscalNote has finalized its $180M acquisition of CQ Roll Call; The Economist Group now has 18% stake in FiscalNote  —  Deal brings together rapidly-growing technology company with two of the oldest brands in Washington journalism
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The surge in digital misinformation has created new businesses, research disciplines, and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda  —  A surge of nefarious activity online has created new businesses, research disciplines and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda.
Max Willens / Digiday:
Food site Munchies, owned by Vice and Fremantle Media, signs deal with developer Triple Five Media to create Munchies-branded food court in New Jersey  —  Munchies is shopping for chefs and restaurants to bake into its newest endeavor: a food court.  —  The Vice and Fremantle Media co-owned …
Discussion: Eater
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Newly launched Magnet Companies, which will invest in and buy digital media businesses, is the latest prominent media venture set up as a holding company  —  On Aug. 2, a trio of longtime digital media executives, including former HuffPost CEO Betsy Morgan and former AwesomenessTV president Brett Bouttier …
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Media research firm Magid: 35% of Millennials share passwords for streaming services like Netflix, vs. 19% of Generation X subscribers and 13% of Baby Boomers  —  - An estimated 35 percent of millennials share passwords for streaming services.  That's compared with 19 percent of Generation X subscribers and 13 percent of Baby Boomers.
Discussion: Tubefilter and Fortune
 
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Turkey lifts travel ban on German journalist who could not leave the country as she awaited trial following her release from eight months of detention
Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNNMoney:
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Scott Nover / The Atlantic:
How the Sunday political talk show format has evolved during the Trump presidency, helping viewers digest the week's news and parse lies and spin
Discussion: TVNewser
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A look at Andrew Kaczynski's KFile team, now at CNN, which looks for damning comments in audio, video, and social media posts by politicians and appointees
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Sonam Rai / Reuters:
Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, files for a $300M IPO on Nasdaq and says it had 32.1M MAUs in the last quarter
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Charter Spectrum plans to launch a 24-hour local news channel for greater LA in November, specializing in “hyper-local” coverage of positive community issues
Mehreen Khan / Financial Times:
Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour
Ian Sherr / CNET:
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
 
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