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10:30 AM ET, August 15, 2020

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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
In updated editor's note, Newsweek apologized for an op-ed questioning Harris' eligibility, calling it a tool for racism after staffers demanded it be retracted  —  The apology nevertheless fell far short of staffers' demands that the magazine retract and remove the supposedly erudite exploration of 19th century Supreme Court rulings.
Financial Times:
Sources: as ViacomCBS expands CBS All Access with programming from Viacom and Paramount, it is considering rebranding the streaming service to Paramount+  —  ‘Paramount+’ tops shortlist as battle with Disney moves centre stage in attempt to lift shares  —  ViacomCBS is considering a plan …
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Bloomberg:
ViacomCBS shares rose as much as 5.8% on Friday following a researcher's report that an activist investor may be gathering a significant stake  —  - Credit Suisse trades hint that shareholder is amassing stake  — But any activist would have to win over Shari Redstone
Discussion: @scottporch
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The White House breached its own COVID-19 social distancing rules to allow representatives from Gateway Pundit, Epoch Times, and OAN into press briefings  —  The White House press corps just got a little more Trump-friendly, thanks to a bit of maneuvering by the White House itself.
Business Insider:
Current and former Complex Networks staffers detail a company culture where leadership fostered bullying, favoritism; Complex has launched “full cultural audit”  —  - Complex Networks is facing a reckoning after a number of current and former employees cited incidents …
Victoria Song / Gizmodo:
The death of Bon Appétit shows why media companies, which have no idea what makes videos work, failed with their half-baked plans to pivot to video  —  There are a zillion reasons why I have been mourning the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen.  The one that hurts most is that the slow …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Santa Cruz Local, a startup that focuses on county-level public policy reporting, has grown amid the pandemic to 500 paying members and 3,800 newsletter subs  —  Santa Cruz Local nearly doubled paying members since the coronavirus pandemic … “Hey everyone.
 
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Elaine Low / Variety:
Len Amato, president of HBO Films, Miniseries, and Cinemax, is leaving, as Cinemax works on phasing out original programming and HBO focuses on acquired content
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Press Gazette:
UK court rules that Reach must pay damages of £49,000 to a school teacher following defamatory articles in The Sunday Mirror, Mirror Online, and Kent Live
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facing saturation and stiff competition in the US, media giants including Fox News and ViacomCBS are planning to launch new streaming services internationally
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
USAGM removed seven top execs on Wednesday after suspending their security clearances, citing security concerns over hiring of foreign workers
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Baidu's video streaming service iQIYI says it is being probed by SEC, after a report in April accused it of inflating its 2019 revenue by around $1.13B
Press Gazette:
More than 2,000 jobs at UK-based news organizations have been cut during the COVID-19 crisis so far, with a large proportion of editorial staff affected
BuzzFeed News:
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
Aaron Mak / Slate:
Google's Ad Exchange is demonetizing pages that merely mention issues of race and LGBTQ rights, classifying them as “dangerous or derogatory content”
 

 
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans

 
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