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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Behind Nate Silver's persistent criticism of his ex-employer NYT, for its 2020 polling analysis and Trump coverage, that he denies is due to a personal grudge — Nate Silver made his name as The New York Times' data guru, creating the methodology that predicted Barack Obama's reelection.
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@mlcalderone, @jayrosen_nyu, @politico, @alxthomp and New York Post
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Inside The New York Times as it debates its coverage of Trump's racism and the well intentioned but ineffective desire to “show and not tell” — New York (CNN Business)Last Friday, employees at The New York Times (NYT) received an email from Dean Baquet, the newspaper's executive editor.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Interview with ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish, who says the combined company's “unmatched scale” in content will give it an advantage against streaming rivals — KEY POINTS — ViacomCBS chief Bob Bakish says the newly formed company's vast content library should help it fight off rivals in the TV streaming wars.
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Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, Light Reading, TVWeek.com, @benmullin, Variety and The Wrap
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: CBS's and Viacom's TV production entities to remain separate for now, with CBS TV under Joe Ianniello, and Paramount TV under Jim Gianopulos
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Variety, Wall Street Journal, @kennethturan, @matthewstoller, @bloombergtv, @jbflint, @wsj, TVWeek.com and Wall Street Journal
Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica:
ProPublica releases a guide on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets, announces it is open-sourcing its software and making it available this fall — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Charter and Disney reach a multiyear carriage deal; Charter plans to offer Disney streaming services via set-top boxes and will carry the ESPN-owned ACC Network — KEY POINTS — Charter and Disney reach multiyear carriage deal, avoiding a blackout of networks including ESPN and ABC.
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Variety, Multichannel News, MediaPost, Awful Announcing, @xpangler, Radio & Television … and Seeking Alpha
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Ben Kaufman is stepping down as BuzzFeed CMO at the end of 2019; sources: company expects to break even this year, partly due to revenue from commerce business — BuzzFeed Chief Marketing Officer and commerce leader Ben Kaufman is stepping down from his position at the end of the year …
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Variety, @benkaufman, @amir and @jtoonkel
Middle East Eye:
UK admits that This Is Woke, a “media/news company” that engages in “critical discussions around Muslim identity” is in fact a covert counterterrorism programme — This glitzy, youthful ‘news company’ warns of the dangers of fake news. In fact, it's part of the Home Office's Prevent strategy
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@markdistef, @ilyas_nagdee, @middleeasteye, @stefsimanowitz, @rasmus_kleis, @markdistef, @hichamyezza, @joshajhall and @are_eb
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Gannett and GateHouse parent New Media Investment Group have filed more information with the SEC in a move to address concerns of investors — Gannett and GateHouse Media parent New Media Investment Group on Tuesday released more details of its proposed merger, announced Aug. 5 …
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Washington Post, @apantazi, @apantazi, @report4america, @apantazi, @apantazi, @apantazi, @apantazi, @rsgaddy18, @amuhs, Forbes, New York Post, Rochester Beacon, MediaPost, @henderson_mark, @dankennedy_nu and Poynter
James West / Mother Jones:
Sources: FBI agents began investigating American Media earlier this year, at the direction of prosecutors from the SDNY, over possible Saudi influence peddling — Earlier this year, federal investigators began requesting corporate documents and questioning staff at American Media Inc. …
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
More advertisers are preventing ads from appearing on political content online; out of 2,637 advertisers, 560 blocked the word “Trump”, 1,085 blocked “shooting” — ‘Bomb,’ ‘immigration,’ ‘racism’ and ‘Trump’ are among keywords marketers insist should not appear near their ads
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@patiencehaggin and @patiencehaggin, Thanks:@beet_tv
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.
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New York Times, Digiday, @mathewi, @reckless, @prettyarbitrary, @automattic, @binarybits, @brizzyc, @jayrosen_nyu, @reckless and @reckless
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Stephanie Grisham gave her first TV interview as White House press secretary to “America This Week” host Eric Bolling, well over a month into her tenure — Well over a month into her new gig, Stephanie Grisham did her first television interview as White House press secretary this week …
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