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The Guardian:
Sources: Paul Manafort had multiple meetings with WikiLeaks, including one meeting in 2016, just months before WikiLeaks released DNC dossier — Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published — Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks …
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Voice of America:
Paul Manafort and WikiLeaks both deny that Manafort met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Manafort threatens legal action against The Guardian — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is denying a Guardian newspaper report that he met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange three times …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast's Chief Executive Bob Sauerberg is stepping down, with the company to combine its US and international operations under a new global CEO — Publisher says Condé Nast and Condé Nast International will combine — Condé Nast said Chief Executive Bob Sauerberg …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Fox & Friends let former EPA chief Scott Pruitt choose topics he would discuss on the show, sent questions in advance, and gave his team approval over script — The president's favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook docs shows FB engineer flagged Russian “entities” as pulling billions of FB data points per day in 2014 — Facebook claimed engineers later “found no evidence of specific Russian activity”.
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Press Gazette:
MP leading UK ‘fake news’ inquiry seizes internal Facebook documents using parliamentary legal powers
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Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired — Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform …
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Nieman Lab, @jcassano, @dansinker, Poynter, @nathanielpopper, @jcassano, @adamweinstein, @jbenton, @thestalwart, @atrubek, @susie_c, @cwarzel, @asanwal, @davidklion, @mdudas, @cd_hooks and @digiphile, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Source: YouTube is expected to scale back scripted shows in 2020; multiple sources say it will focus on YouTube's ad-supported business, with all originals free — YouTube has concluded that its investments in original programming are better placed on the free, ad-supported side — not behind a paywall.
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Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, /Film, The Wrap, Engadget, @xpangler, @shiraovide and @dylanbyers
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist CEO Chris Stibbs has stepped down following the departures of CTO Michael Brincat, CFO Toby Burton, and The Economist Group president, Paul Rossi — The Economist CEO Chris Stibbs has stepped down from his post after five and a half years and 13 years at the publisher.
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Press Gazette and The Drum
Kara Swisher / Recode:
The Emerson Collective, the social impact firm run by Laurene Powell Jobs, buys Pop-Up Magazine Productions, which also publishes California Sunday Magazine — The social impact firm makes another media acquisition, this time of the publisher of California Sunday Magazine and Pop-Up Magazine events.
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New York Times, @smartsandcrafts, @karaswisher, @mathewi, @ev_rat, @clarajeffery, @chasnote and @karaswisher
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Fox Nation, Fox News' streaming service, as it launches with a range of programming from cooking shows to a weekly broadcast with Diamond & Silk — If you have ever wondered about the culinary skills of a “Fox & Friends” co-host, wonder no longer.
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Los Angeles Times, CNN, Outkick the Coverage, @nytpolitics, TVNewser and The Week
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Complex's food vertical First We Feast generates 85% of its revenue outside ads, including from its hot sauce brand which should generate $7M in sales in 2018 — In June, heading into the sixth season of “Hot Ones,” Complex Networks and its food vertical First We Feast released two new hot sauces featured in the hit interview series.
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@cschonberger, @digiday, @michellcclark and @richantoniello
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney is moving all of its brands to Google Ad Manager and will drop Comcast's FreeWheel from use by ESPN and ABC Television Group; deal does not include Hulu — The Walt Disney Co. is moving all of its digital brands and properties worldwide — including Disney, ABC, ESPN, Freeform …
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Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Adweek, Ad Age, 9to5Google, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost and The Keyword
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Harvey Weinstein's lawyer plans to file a motion attacking credibility of witnesses, following discovery of emails between Weinstein and his accusers — Harvey Weinstein's attorney is preparing a preemptive strike, looking to undermine the accounts of additional accusers before they are brought into his sexual assault case.
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