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New York Magazine:
New York Magazine will expand its Intelligencer site in October, adding Josh Barro, Zak Cheney-Rice, and Sarah Jones to its staff and incorporating Select All — New York Media today announced the upcoming launch of Intelligencer, a new destination covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.
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@onesarahjones, @zakcheneyrice and @jbarro
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
New York Media names Boris Kachka as book editor as it seeks to triple books coverage across properties with more coverage of audiobooks, genres, and authors — The best house, in my opinion, is a house where books are everywhere: not just on a single shelf in the living room …
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@mariskreizman, @millie, @pgourevitch, @laurahazardowen, @borisk, @tedgioia, @shansquared, Vulture, Publishers Lunch and kottke.org
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Facebook begins classifying news Pages to determine which publishers' ads will be in the news section of Facebook's Ad Archive, details criteria for news Pages — Facebook is moving forward with its controversial Ad Archive with a new system being announced today that will decide where to include individual publishers in the archive.
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Axios, Facebook Media and Adweek
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The New York Times has issued a correction after mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa Manigault Newman in a caption in its Emmys coverage — The New York Times made quite the mix-up in Tuesday's print edition, mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa Manigault Newman in a caption on its coverage of Monday night's Emmy Awards.
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@juliareinstein, Philly.com, The Daily Caller, @zerlinamaxwell, @dictionarycom and Observer
Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies — Over the last 2 years AMP has grown from a tiny open source project with just 2 contributors to a much larger one with over 700 folks contributing over 10,000 commits running on many millions of websites.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Android Police, 9to5Google and @occhris, more at Techmeme »
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO and Netflix tie for the most Emmy wins, taking home 23 each; Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won eight awards; Hulu won four — HBO is still the Emmy champion — but it has some company at the top. — The streaming era has already turned the TV business upside down …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Early figures show the Emmys ratings downturn has continued, falling 10% YoY, despite NBC moving it to Monday; the last time it had 12M+ viewers was in 2014
Early figures show the Emmys ratings downturn has continued, falling 10% YoY, despite NBC moving it to Monday; the last time it had 12M+ viewers was in 2014
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The Wrap, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, New York Times, Full Feed, The Week and @deadlinedominic
Jack Dorsey / Wired:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey nominates ProPublica as a company that will “shake up” digital in the next 25 years, for Wired's “Wired @ 25” issue — I DISCOVERED PROPUBLICA about two years ago and became interested in it right away because of its mission …
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@laurengoode, @wired, @propublica and @wiredculture
Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
In the press, women's accounts of abuse are only believed after being thoroughly fact-checked, while men like Jian Ghomeshi are believed when they “confess” — Edvard Munch, “Melancholy,” 1891. — Let's put aside content for the moment, and talk about form.
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@haleymlotek, @nausjcaa and @jon_allsop
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner is joining Netflix's board of directors — As boss of the European publishing giant, Dopfner oversees titles including Politico Europe and Germany's Bild and Die Welt. — Mathias Dopfner, chairman and CEO of European publishing giant Axel Springer …
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Nieman Lab:
UN publishes Journalism, Fake News and Disinformation, a handbook to help journalists tackle the rise of disinformation around the world — In a global-first act of collaborative research and knowledge sharing involving leading international experts, the UN published a new handbook this week …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Ex-ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross talks about the erroneous report on Michael Flynn which led to him leaving the network — Brian Ross resigned from ABC News after making an erroneous assertion about the president. The ensuing hysteria made him feel he had been put ‘on a kind of enemies list.’
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@thedailybeast
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Julie Chen to step down from CBS' The Talk but will continue to host Big Brother after CEO Les Moonves' exit amid accusations of sexual misconduct — Julie Chen is stepping down from “The Talk” on CBS, one week after her husband Les Moonves left the CBS Corporation under pressure.
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