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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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@shaneferro, @jbarro, @rafat, @onesarahjones and @zakcheneyrice
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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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Talking Biz News, @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
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 …
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@dangillmor, @theslanderous, @gutenberg_org, @hbcompass, Laurie Penny, @pennyred, @ferdyonfilms, @pennyred, @jmkorhonen, @mpnye, @skiscontent, @benzbox and @zanelovitt
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, @pbakaus, 9to5Google, @backlon, @aleyda, Android Police and @occhris, more at Techmeme »
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, Mediaite, @zerlinamaxwell, @dictionarycom and The Daily Caller
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
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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The Wrap, @radiovendetta, New York Times, @trengriffin, @rosental, Business Insider, @trengriffin and Vanity Fair
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 — UPDATE, 10:01 AM: Winners like Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Rachel Brosnahan, Seven Seconds' Regina King …
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The Wrap, Variety, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Full Feed, The Week and @deadlinedominic
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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
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
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Variety, The Week, Adweek, Variety, Variety, @verge, TechCrunch, @lucas_shaw, Adweek, The Wrap, The Verge, The Wrap, Multichannel News, The Ringer, AOL and Fast Company
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
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 …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Houston Chronicle sends food and encouragement to News & Observer amid storm coverage: “We are also working on care packages for some other Carolina newsrooms” — On Tuesday, journalists at The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina got to take a lunch break courtesy of the Houston Chronicle.
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@robyntomlin, @nancycbarnes and @someday_deane
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 …