Mediagazer: Interview with Aaron Samuels, cofounder and COO of Blavity, which closed a $6.5M Series A in June and reaches 7M readers per month, focused on black millennials (Bryan Logan/Business Insider)

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David Faber / CNBC:

Sources: Amazon is bidding for the 22 regional sports TV networks that Disney acquired from 21st Century Fox — Amazon is bidding for the 22 regional sports TV networks that Disney acquired from 21st Century Fox. — The e-commerce giant is bidding for all of the networks …

Discussion: Variety, Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, The Wrap, Awful Announcing, GeekWire, FierceVideo, Cord Cutters News, @petethamel, @tvtye, Engadget and @edmundlee

Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:

Condé Nast has announced that it's ceasing Glamour's print edition, despite its subscriber base of 2.2M remaining stable over last three years — Yet another women's magazine is moving away from print. — Condé Nast, the legacy publisher of glossy and aesthetically rich magazines …

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Tim Peterson / Digiday:

Quartz AI Studio receives $249,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to create articles using AI, expects to work on six stories in 2019 — Quartz has used artificial intelligence technology to help it promote articles through its AI-enabled chatbots. Now the publication is looking …

Discussion: @jkeefe, Quartz, @ndiakopoulos, @silvermanjacob and @zseward

Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:

Publishers gear up to lobby for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act so they can jointly bargain with tech platforms without violating antitrust law — The news industry is readying a lobbying push with a straightforward, but audacious request: Please let us collude against Google and Facebook.

Discussion: American Press Institute, @mattdpearce, @andyostroy, @shiraovide and @perlberg

Robyn Caplan / Data & Society:

Analysis of the tradeoffs between three content moderation approaches: small-scale artisanal, volunteer-based/community-reliant, and automated/industrial — Artisanal, Community-Reliant, and Industrial Approaches — In Content or Context Moderation?, Data & Society Affiliate Robyn Caplan draws …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @zephoria, @datasociety, @janethaven and @datasociety

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Oren Katzeff, most recently head of programming at digital media startup Tastemade, is succeeding Dawn Ostroff as president of Condé Nast Entertainment — Katzeff was previously head of programming at digital media startup Tastemade. — Conde Nast Entertainment has named Oren Katzeff its new president.

Bryan Logan / Business Insider:

Interview with Aaron Samuels, cofounder and COO of Blavity, which closed a $6.5M Series A in June and reaches 7M readers per month, focused on black millennials — - Aaron Samuels is cofounder and chief operating officer of Blavity, the LA media upstart focused on African-American millennials, and he is a man of many talents.

Discussion: @poetryaaron and @rrhoover

Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the future of WikiTribune, which was designed to let anyone contribute and edit news stories but has used up its initial crowdfunding funds and grants — Jimmy Wales in 2008, uploaded to Flickr by Joi Ito — It's been almost a year since the launch of WikiTribune …

Discussion: @mathewi, @mathewi, @lauraelizdavis, @transscribe, @cjr and Charles Michio Turner

Ronan Shields / Adweek:

NewsGuard co-CEO Steve Brill announces BrandGuard, a news filtering service that uses journalists to rate and review news and information sites for credibility — NewsGuard just launched a tool to help advertisers avoid funding misinformation — A year after announcing his news startup NewsGuard …

Mr. Magazine:

Q&A with Troy Young, president at Hearst Magazines, on moving into digital, the role of print and research, and the biggest misconceptions people have about him — Troy Young On The Role Of Print In A Digital Age; The Role Of Digital In Today's Magazine Media; Legacy Brands and Digital …

Tyler Fisher / Source:

Politico details and open sources Civic, a system for modeling and publishing election-centric civic data — Our new, highly flexible system is midterms-tested and ready for your contributions — If you work in a newsroom or with any civic data project, you might have a need to manage election data.

Discussion: @source, @derekwillis, @brizandrew, @politicoelex and @jonrmcclure

Middle East Eye:

Source: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave King Salman and MBS a “roadmap” to help shield themselves from the Khashoggi scandal — US Secretary of State gave Mohammed bin Salman a roadmap to insulate himself from the scandal, a senior Saudi source tells MEE

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