Mediagazer: AT&T and Nexstar say they have reached a multi-year deal to return Nexstar-owned TV stations to DirecTV, AT&T TV, and U-verse, ending a 2-month-long blackout (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

8:50 PM ET, August 29, 2019

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Hannah Gais / Splinter:

Leaked emails show how former Daily Caller staffer Jonah Bennett and think tank staffer John Elliott pushed white nationalist ideas into conservative media — Conservative institutions in the Donald Trump era have often sought to portray themselves as shocked and appalled by the so-called “alt-right.”

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Shira Tarlo / Salon:

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracted a thinly sourced report alleging Russian oligarchs co-signed loans for Trump; Trump then blasted O'Donnell on Twitter — O'Donnell has retracted a thinly-sourced report alleging that Trump obtained loans co-signed by Russian oligarchs

Discussion: @lawrence, @realdonaldtrump, Washington Post, @realdonaldtrump, Fox News, CNN, @erictrump, Law & Crime, The Hill, @oliverdarcy, MSNBC, @digiphile and @oliverdarcy

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

Disney sells its 80% stake in YES Network to Amazon, the Yankees, and Sinclair, valuing the network that airs the NY Yankees and other local sports at ~$3.5B — KEY POINTS — Disney sold its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes Amazon, the company announced Thursday.

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Matthew Gault / VICE:

Infowars' War Room relaunched its YouTube channel a day after Susan Wojcicki's letter to creators; YouTube deleted the channel after reports of its relaunch — “A commitment to openness is not easy. It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial, or even offensive," YouTube's CEO said.

Discussion: The Verge, Tubefilter, The Hill, Boing Boing and CNBC, more at Techmeme »

Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:

YouTube removed, then reinstated a channel for Martin Sellner, a European white nationalist, and a channel for a British nationalist called The Iconoclast — The video platform said it was a “mistake” to remove the channels of Martin Sellner and another far right personality known as The Iconoclast, but wouldn't explain what happened.

Discussion: Business Insider, @markdistef, Boing Boing, Media Matters for America and @evelyndouek, more at Techmeme »

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

After complaints for omitting references to race in an article on Tea Party history, NYT updated story with an ineffective sentence that provided little remedy — The New York Times story by Jeremy W. Peters on tea-party history is extensive and well-written.

Discussion: @nytpolitics, New York Times, CNN, @wesleylowery, @tomperriello, @wesleylowery, @deggans, @paulkrugman, @_cingraham, @gregpinelo, Splinter, Fox News and The Daily Caller

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Plex to launch an ad-supported streaming service this year, plans to begin reselling video subscription services and add transactional VOD, in H1 2020 — Get ready for yet another ad-supported video service: Media center app maker Plex is gearing up to add free movies and TV shows to its app …

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Christopher Baxter / Inquirer.com:

Spotlight PA, a donor-funded newsroom devoted to covering the Pennsylvania capitol, launches next week; the outlet is a collaboration among media outlets — There's nothing short of a crisis in our state capital. — Every year, more of Pennsylvania's sprawling and costly bureaucracy …

Discussion: @swischnowski, @dlboardman, @jayrosen_nyu, @jimfriedlich, @pilhofer and @jimfriedlich

Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:

All YouTube original content released after Sept. 24 will be available to watch free with ads for a certain time, starting with Karate Kid spinoff Cobra Kai — All new series released after Sept. 24 will be available to watch for free — YouTube is moving the first season …

Discussion: Variety, The A.V. Club, Financial Times and Broadcasting & Cable

Christopher R. Martin / Nieman Reports:

As newspapers wrote off working class readers in the '60s, and with no labor coverage in network/cable news, it's become clear more labor reporters are needed — A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today

Discussion: American Press Institute, @68dodgecoronet, @faduda, Talking Biz News and bookforum.com

Financial Times:

Tencent has filed defamation lawsuits against three bloggers who wrote about the company on WeChat, demanding financially crippling large sums as compensation — Tencent has long had a potent tool for muzzling critics: shut down their accounts. But in recent months the Chinese social media group …

Discussion: @suelinwong, @rasmus_kleis and @chorzempamartin

Dade Hayes / Deadline:

AT&T and Nexstar say they have reached a multi-year deal to return Nexstar-owned TV stations to DirecTV, AT&T TV, and U-verse, ending a 2-month-long blackout — AT&T and Nexstar Media Group, which is poised to become the No. 1 owner of local TV stations in the U.S. …

Discussion: Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television …, Variety, Raleigh News & Observer, Fresno Bee, The Tennessean, USA Today and Cord Cutters News

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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr / Breaking Defense:
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds first televised Pentagon press briefing in over a year: “I intend to do these briefings to maintain an open dialogue”

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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
NYT's Amy Chozick to co-author and co-produce The Girls on the Bus for Netflix, a fictional show about female reporters on the campaign trail

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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
John Carreyrou has left WSJ after almost 20 years, citing the paper's ban on paid speaking engagements, in place to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest

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A-list celebrities, from Will Smith to Zac Efron to Alexa Chung, have recently become YouTube vloggers, adopting the feel of authenticity for the new medium

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Rita El Khoury / Android Police:
YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week”

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu launches its live TV guide on the web, Roku, and Apple TV, and says the Live Guide is coming to other platforms soon

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Jeanine Santucci / USA Today:
Beto O'Rourke's staff removed a Breitbart writer from a campaign event, later saying site “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech”

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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Fox News of “heavily promoting the Democrats” and urges his Twitter followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet”

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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook tightens rules for political advertisers in the US, requiring further identity proof such as tax-ID number or Federal Election Commission registration

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George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

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