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11:35 PM ET, August 18, 2019

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The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin, who faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment in 2017, signs a book deal with publisher Regan Arts  —  News of the “Game Change” author's deal with Regan Arts came as a shock to his accusers, and prominent Democrats interviewed in the book have been scrambling to explain themselves.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
EIC Megan Greenwell is leaving Deadspin and says G/O Media leaders refused to guarantee Deadspin's editorial independence and told the site to “stick to sports”  —  The new bosses in charge of what used to be the Gawker network of websites have drastically upended the culture …
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Q&A with ESPN's investigative reporter Don Van Natta about Backstory, a new show on the network which revisits some of the biggest stories in sports history  —  Don Van Natta has covered the Clinton White House and terrorism in Europe for the New York Times.
@pinboard:
[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong-Kong  —  Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags pic.twitter.com/6Wb0Km6GOb
Jessica Lipsky / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of the Black Panther Party's newspaper, which ran from 1967 to 1980 and at its peak was the most-read Black newspaper in the US  —  In 1968, Billy X Jennings was sitting in class at Laney College, in Oakland, California, when he heard chanting from the courthouse across the street.
Discussion: @cjr, @uroobajamal, @cjr, @jessicalipsky and @cjr
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Despite having canceled two dozen shows in 2019, Netflix is no quicker to drop shows than other networks, with 50% making it to season three, comparable to HBO  —  With such a huge budget, Netflix only looks like it's pulling the plug sooner  —  Just a few months after TV critics anointed …
Jeff Blumenthal / Philadelphia Business Journal:
American City Business Journals acquires BizEquity, a SaaS company offering business valuation tools and more to financial institutions and wealth managers  —  As part of the deal, the parent company of the Philadelphia Business Journal will make a “significant” capital investment in BizEquity to accelerate its growth.
Discussion: @rafat
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ashley Flowers, the creator and host of true-crime podcast “Crime Junkie”, says several episodes have been pulled down, after being accused of plagiarism  —  Ashley Flowers, creator and host of “Crime Junkie” — currently the No. 1 true-crime podcast — has been accused …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Monthly magazine Cosmopolitan saw its average circulation fall 32% YoY to 206,510 copies in the first six months of 2019, the biggest drop among women's mags  —  Cosmopolitan has seen the biggest circulation drop among women's magazines so far this year, new ABC figures reveal.
Jon Watkins / fipp.com:
Q&A with Condé Nast VP of Product Lindsay Silver on how the company is evolving its use of AI beyond automating basic tasks like recommendations  —  ***Join us at the FIPP World Media Congress, taking place from 12-14 November 2019 in Las Vegas, to hear Lindsay Silver share …
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate's origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars  —  On August 15, 2014, an angry 20-something ex-boyfriend published a 9,425-word screed and set in motion a series of vile events that changed the way we fight online.
 
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Vice News Tonight is relaunching on Viceland after HBO canceled the newsmagazine series in June, will serve as the new nightly primetime anchor for the channel
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The White House reaffirms its suspension of the press pass of CNN analyst and Playboy correspondent Brian Karem, through September 14; Karem says he will sue
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The company emerging from a Gannett-GateHouse merger would have a cost savings goal of $300M each year; that's bad for readers, staff, and democracy
Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News:
Highly charged Instagram political ads have been shown to UK teens ages 13-17, with most from Conservatives; children's commissioner calls content irresponsible
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more
Discussion: Engadget and The Verge
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Taking a stricter approach than Netflix and HBO, Disney and Charter team up to combat “account sharing”, amid a new distribution deal for Hulu, ESPN+, Disney+
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
A WaPo story that Epstein's autopsy found multiple breaks in neck bones helped fuel conspiracies, but experts say evidence is consistent with suicidal hangings
Knight Foundation:
Survey: Americans are “very” (66%) or “somewhat” (26%) concerned that if a large company bought their local news org, the owners' views would influence coverage
 

 
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Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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