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11:40 PM ET, September 18, 2018

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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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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 …
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.
Discussion: Axios, Facebook Media and Adweek
Laurie Penny / Longreads:
Why refusing to “debate” some bad moral ideas isn't about censorship, and why I refused to speak alongside Steve Bannon at an Economist event  —  There are some stupid mistakes that only very smart people make, and one of them is the notion that a sensible argument seriously presented …
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.
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 …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The $190M price for Time magazine shows the long-lasting power of brand: comScore numbers showed millennials made up nearly half of its online audience in 2016  —  Meredith Corp.'s sale of Time magazine elicited surprise for the buyer (Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff) with its $190 million price tag.
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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
Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
Jonathan Kaiman, formerly Beijing bureau chief for the LA Times, has resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct made in May  —  BEIJING — A former Beijing bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times has resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct.  —  The journalist, Jonathan Kaiman …
Discussion: Deadline and The Wrap
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Simon & Schuster said Bob Woodward's new book, “Fear”, sold 1.1M+ copies in its first week, breaking the company's record for first-week sales  —  Author's inside look at the Trump White House sold 1.1 million copies  —  “Fear,” Bob Woodward's inside look at the Trump White House …
 
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Kali Hays / WWD:
Condé Nast names Spin's Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel EIC of Pitchfork, the web-based music publication it acquired in 2015
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner is joining Netflix's board of directors
Discussion: Variety
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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
Cora Currier / The Intercept:
Internal memos from 2015, written by US AG for FBI, show how the US government can monitor journalists: high-level DOJ officials bring requests to FISA court
 

 
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that the Chinese company is considering selling a majority stake in TikTok US

 
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