Mediagazer: SimilarWeb: ~59% of traffic to Trump's campaign website from May to July came from The Gateway Pundit and Citizen Free Press, a fringe-right news aggregator (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Facebook's new policy will label as political any promoted content by US news outlets with direct ties to political groups and ban them from the News tab — Facebook is rolling out a new policy that will prevent U.S. news publishers with “direct, meaningful ties” to political groups …

Discussion: @emilybell, @dellcam, @arawnsley, @persily, @robpegoraro, @newslitproject, @nickpacilio, @cjr, @mathewi and @kellykborn

Sara Fischer / Axios:

SimilarWeb: ~59% of traffic to Trump's campaign website from May to July came from The Gateway Pundit and Citizen Free Press, a fringe-right news aggregator — Traffic to President Trump's presidential website is more than 4x greater than traffic to Joe Biden's presidential website …

Discussion: Crain's New York Business, @mikemadden and @bencjacobs

New York Times:

A case study of a story about Bible burning in Portland, covered by RT and its Ruptly video service, then amplified by US right-wing media and politicians — WASHINGTON — For some of President Trump's loudest cheerleaders, it was a story too good to check out: Black Lives Matters protesters in Portland …

Discussion: @bymikebaker, Oregonian, The Independent, The Hill, @mollyjongfast, @karoli, @jason_kint, @jimrutenberg, @clairecmc, The Slot and @jessedamiani

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

In a new filing, Microsoft adds Netflix, Hulu, and Tencent to its list of competitors, saying its gaming services compete with other entertainment providers — Microsoft may be toying with the idea of buying Tik-Tok, but more than ever, its bread-and-butter is basic cloud services and server software for businesses.

Discussion: @pkafka, @toddbishop, @dylanbyers and @jbflint

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:

Tencent Music reports Q2 net income of $135M, up 1.4% YoY, on revenue of $997M, up 18% YoY; paid users rose 52% YoY to 47.1M — Munsif Vengattil, Pei Li — (Reuters) - China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) (TME.N) said on Monday its quarterly revenue leaped 18% …

Discussion: Tencent Music, TechCrunch and Reuters

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Fox News to launch live-streaming outlet Fox News International in August for $6.99/month, starting in Mexico and expanding to 20 countries by the end of 2020 — Fox Corp. is joining the parade of big U.S. media companies seeking to stream their best-known content abroad.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and @perlberg

Reid Nakamura / The Wrap:

The anti-Trump episode of Black-ish that was canned by ABC in 2018 and led its creator Kenya Barris to sign with Netflix finally debuts on Hulu — The canned episode of “Black-ish” that led to a dispute between Disney and creator Kenya Barris, and Barris eventually decamping for a new deal at Netflix …

Discussion: Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, NME, Los Angeles Times, /Film, @laceyvrose, Paradox Newsletter, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Variety, Vanity Fair and Decider

Bloomberg:

CuriosityStream, a streaming service for documentaries on science and history, has agreed to go public through a ~$330M merger with Software Acquisition Group — CuriosityStream, a streaming platform for documentaries on science, history and other topics, has agreed to go public through …

Discussion: Multichannel News, Reuters, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Washington …, PYMNTS.com, Realscreen, Deadline, Light Reading, Variety and Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:

Researchers find network of 178 hyperpartisan low-quality news sites whose underlying purpose is to collect and sell email addresses and other personal info — The reality curated by “The Bearded Patriot” and “The Wolf of Washington” is dismal. — The websites tell of nonstop riots and “crazed leftists.”

Discussion: @dfrlab, @washpostbiz, @davidclinchnews, @josh_braun, @brianstelter, @anneapplebaum, @isaacstanbecker, @seth_hettena and @craigsilverman

Frank Blethen / The Seattle Times:

Seattle Times publisher endorses initiatives to help local news and local ownership in WA, where 84% of the top 50 regional metro papers aren't locally owned — Dear Reader, This week is The Seattle Times' 124th birthday. To my knowledge, we are now the second-oldest regional newspaper in the country with local stewardship.

Discussion: @nickcharles61 and @hbernton

Sara Fischer / Axios:

NYT is researching launching a standalone subscription for Wirecutter, akin to existing ones for Cooking and Crosswords — The New York Times is in the early stages of researching a consumer subscription for its product recommendation site Wirecutter, according to a job description posted on LinkedIn.

Discussion: @studyhallxyz, @seangriffey, @myurow, @simonowens, @jessicalessin and Talking Biz News

Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:

Meredith debuts Data Studio, a service that licenses its first-party data to brands, available separately from its advertising business — Meredith introduced its Data Studio Monday, a platform built out of its extensive first-party data set to help brands better understand their consumers both on and off Meredith's properties.