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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
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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@jbarro, @rafat, @onesarahjones, @zakcheneyrice and @shaneferro
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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
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
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@tedgioia, Talking Biz News, @mariskreizman, @pgourevitch, @millie, @laurahazardowen, @borisk, @shansquared, Publishers Lunch and kottke.org
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, @pennyred, @ferdyonfilms, @pennyred, @jmkorhonen, @mpnye, @skiscontent, @benzbox, @zanelovitt and Laurie Penny
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, @backlon, @aleyda, @occhris, Android Police and 9to5Google, 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
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com:
Book excerpt: how Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian patched their fractured friendship and reclaimed Reddit's helm — Reddit's co-founders patched their fractured friendship to save the company that defined them. … Steve Huffman had been seeing a therapist for a few years …
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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New York Times, The Wrap, @radiovendetta, @rosental, @trengriffin, @trengriffin, Business Insider and Vanity Fair
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 …
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
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, @deadlinedominic, Full Feed, The Week and MediaPost
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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, @lucas_shaw, Adweek, @verge, Adweek, TechCrunch, Variety, The Verge, Variety, The Wrap, The Wrap, Multichannel News, The Ringer, AOL and Fast Company
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
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 …
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
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 …