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11:45 AM ET, August 29, 2019

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT updates its article on the history of the Tea Party with an insubstantial sentence referring to the movement's links to racism following complaints  —  The New York Times story by Jeremy W. Peters on tea-party history is extensive and well-written.  And it featured a hole …
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 …
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 …
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  —  ‘The Girls on the Bus’ will be inspired by a chapter from New York Times journalist Amy Chozick's book, with the author attached as a writer.
Discussion: @amychozick, Variety, Deadline and Jezebel
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”  —  President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Fox News, accusing the conservative network of “heavily promoting the Democrats” …
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”  —  In a media-wary administration, the big news from Defense Secretary Mark Esper's formal press briefing was that he actually held one, and pledged to keep doing so.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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  —  Yesterday, Hulu began rolling out an updated version of its mobile app sporting the brand-new interface the company first unveiled at CES in January.
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”  —  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's staff had a Breitbart News writer removed from an event in South Carolina on Tuesday.
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Inkitt, a crowdsourced publishing platform that has 1.6M readers and 110K writers, raises $16M Series A, and says its reading app Galatea has a run-rate of $6M
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Federal judge rules in favor of Gizmodo Media Group in a $100M lawsuit brought by ex-Trump spokesman Jason Miller over a story about a child custody case
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Sources and leaked emails from 2017 show Clarity Media, the owner of the Weekly Standard and Washington Examiner, explored purchasing the Federalist
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
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Q&A with David Karpf, the tenured professor whose “bedbug” tweet prompted NYT's Bret Stephens to copy Karpf's provost on an email complaining about the tweet