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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.
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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
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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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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Beet.TV, @patiencehaggin and @patiencehaggin, Thanks:@beet_tv
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Financial Times has bought a minority stake in paywalled B2B news website The Business of Fashion, which says it has 35,000 paying members and over 100 staff — The Financial Times has bought a minority stake in B2B news website The Business of Fashion, which sits behind a paywall.
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Talking Biz News and Financial Times
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
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, Light Reading, Multichannel News, TVWeek.com, @benmullin, Variety and The Wrap
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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, @stefsimanowitz, @rasmus_kleis, @markdistef, @hichamyezza, @joshajhall, @are_eb, @ilyas_nagdee and @middleeasteye
The Information:
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
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. …
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 …
Patrick Strudwick / BuzzFeed:
A transgender employee of The Guardian resigned last month accusing it of being “an incredibly transphobic organisation”; a second employee quit weeks later — “It suddenly became real,” one trans staff member told BuzzFeed News. “I'm entering this building with people who are denying my humanity.”
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@natachakennedy, @tessstenson, @mynameisjro, @kathy__odonnell, @markdistef, @supernowoczesna, @buzzfeeduk, @_emilyoram and @transscribe