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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump speciously describes an NYT journalist making a request for confirmation to an FBI press liaison in 2017 as the NYT “feeding false stories” about him — In his long-running quest to prove the real collusion was collusion against Donald Trump, the president on Friday promoted …
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@realdonaldtrump, @nytimespr, Mediaite and @nickconfessore
The Atlantic:
Bob Cohn, president of The Atlantic magazine since 2014, is stepping down on September 7 — Below is the full text of a memo from Atlantic Media Chairman David G. Bradley announcing that, after nearly 11 years at The Atlantic, president Bob Cohn has decided to leave the company this fall.
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@dkthomp, @jamesfallows, @1bobcohn, @nxthompson, Folio, The Daily Caller and Adweek
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
In a report, the ICO, UK's data protection regulator, says the real time bidding ad industry is undermining GDPR and failing to protect sensitive personal data — The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling Internet users. — That's the damning assessment …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: at least seven Ebony magazine employees were fired after they refused to work due to payroll delays — Ebony and Jet magazines have been laying off their remaining editorial staff en masse after failing to make payroll last month — the latest in a long line of slights suffered …
Discussion:
The Root and @adriennewrites
Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider:
A CBS-Viacom merger would bolster both to compete with Netflix and Disney, but saddles CBS with networks like Nickelodeon, which lost ~30% of viewers in 2018 — - After 13 years apart, CBS is preparing a bid to buy its sister company, Viacom, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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@ashleyrreports and @lmoses
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says he wrote in the WSJ about Trump's accusation of “treason” to reach a new audience; “I give them a lot of credit for running it” — Murdoch's paper is a fierce competitor to Sulzberger's Times. But Trump raised the stakes …
Discussion:
@edmundlee, @jessepesta, @waltmossberg, @joepompeo, @tribelaw, @cnbc and Wall Street Journal
Aaron Freedman / American Prospect:
A look at how Koch funding is fueling the “free speech warriors” like Jordan Peterson who want free speech for the right and censorship of those on the left — Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. — There is a war on free speech, and the front lines are YouTube ads.
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@sulliview, @freedaaron, @freedaaron, @freedaaron, @rottenindenmark and @davidklion
Adrianne Pasquarelli / Ad Age:
Outdoors retailer REI is launching Uncommon Path, a quarterly print magazine in partnership with Hearst, to start publication in the fall — Retailer is working with Hearst on a new quarterly called Uncommon Path — No stranger to the unconventional, REI is at it again …
Discussion:
Featured News and MediaPost
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
DOD's three-minute briefing with no questions after downing of drone marks the first time in over a year that a DOD official has addressed the press on camera — With the United States on the brink of a potential military conflict with Iran on Thursday, the Pentagon decided to say . . . well, almost nothing.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at Pico, a CRM for media companies that manages and stores payments, aggregates engagement, and which has raised $4.5M from Axel Springer and others — “They said: 'We don't have a CRM. We have a plugin that manages who's paid, and we have Mailchimp to email people.' Honestly …
Discussion:
Strange Attractor and @azirulnick
CNN:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Fox Corporation, is recovering from pneumonia, but is doing well and is expected to call into a board meeting on Friday — New York (CNN Business)Rupert Murdoch, the 88-year-old billionaire media mogul, is recovering after a bout with pneumonia …
Discussion:
@anthony, @oliverdarcy, @brianstelter and CNN
Aditi Sangal / Digiday:
Interview with Sarah Personette, Twitter's VP of global client solutions, on brand safety, election integrity, and the company's openness to more regulation — In the last year, Twitter and Facebook have been scrutinized for the lack of brand-safe environments for advertisers.
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