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11:00 AM ET, September 4, 2019

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CNBC:
Google will pay a $170M fine to the FTC and the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube  —  will pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws SEARCH QUOTES TECH YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
Politico's White House reporter and CNN contributor Eliana Johnson to be the new EIC of the neoconservative outlet Washington Free Beacon  —  A leading political reporter is leaving Politico to lead the neoconservative flagship Washington Free Beacon, the latest move in a conservative media world attempting …
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
Trump admin staffer quit just before Bloomberg reported his 2016 Facebook posts were anti-Semitic; omitted context shows the posts actually mocked anti-Semitism  —  On August 12, conservative lawyer Leif Olson began work in the Trump administration's Department of Labor.  On August 30, he resigned.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump allies seek $2M+ to investigate reporters and editors; allies include Arthur Schwartz, who has battled reporters as well as pitched stories to them  —  President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of the New York Times …
Editor & Publisher:
Newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher has been sold to media consultant Mike Blinder for an undisclosed sum  —  Duncan McIntosh, president and group publisher of the Duncan McIntosh Co., Inc. and owner of Editor and Publisher (E&P), has announced today the sale of the trade magazine …
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Federal judge has ordered the White House to restore Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press pass, whose credentials were suspended after an incident in July  —  UPDATED with Grisham reaction: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the hard pass of Playboy's correspondent …
Jillian Ambrose / The Guardian:
The New York Times drops sponsorship of one of the world's biggest oil industry conferences: “we want there to be no question of our independence”  —  Newspaper says event ‘gives us cause for concern’ after protests outside its offices  —  The New York Times has scrapped plans …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
The New Yorker will hire its subcontracted fact-checkers and editors as direct employees, amid ongoing contract negotiations with its newly unionized staff  —  - Condé Nast says it regularly reviews contingent worker roles  — Magazine's editorial workers unionized with NewsGuild in 2018
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity continue to selectively rely on investigative reporting from the very outlets whose integrity they try to undermine  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson finds himself in a pickle: On the one hand, he must do his propagandistic duty of discrediting top …
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
MRC releases its cross-media audience measurement standards for video, a framework that works across TV, OTT, desktop, and mobile  —  Viewable ad duration metric to be phased in by 2021  —  The Media Rating Council on Wednesday issued a final version of its Cross-Media Audience Measurement Standards …
Axios:
Podcasting startup Himalaya overstated its $100M February fundraise and investors; exec says Chinese podcasting platform Ximalaya FM is majority owner  —  Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.
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