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1:35 PM ET, August 9, 2021

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Lizzie Widdicombe / Vogue:
Profile of Jen Psaki, who some White House reporters credit with “lower[ing] the temperature” even as her briefings are not “exceptionally informative”  —  It's a summer Friday.  President Biden is at his Delaware beach house, where he delivered a brief speech about that morning's encouraging jobs numbers.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku adds 23 more Quibi shows to The Roku Channel and says Nielsen estimates it ranked as the No. 6 streaming channel by household reach in the US in June  —  On Aug. 13, the company will premiere 23 new Roku Originals (each of them from Quibi's library) exclusively on the Roku Channel to stream for free with ads.
Scaachi Koul / BuzzFeed News:
Profile of Trisha Paytas, one of the internet's most prolific trolls with over 5M subscribers on YouTube, who claims to have an income of $800,000 per month  —  For nearly 15 years, Trisha Paytas has been one of YouTube's most prolific and complicated creators.  Now they say they're done trolling — or are they?
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram says it is testing ads in its Shop tab, starting with select US-based advertisers  —  Instagram is further investing in its e-commerce business, Instagram Shops, with the launch of a new advertising product, Ads in Instagram Shop.  The company says it's currently testing the new format …
Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
How Gov. Cuomo's hometown paper The Albany Times Union's anti-off-the-record stance put it on a collision course with the notoriously press-controlling governor  —  The Times Union's strait-laced, minimal-schmooze, no off-the-record principles put it on a collision course with the notoriously press-controlling governor of New York.
Nathanael Cooper / Sydney Morning Herald:
Universal Music and Sony Music are conducting separate investigations into workplace culture at their Sydney offices  —  Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size  —  Universal Music has become the second record label to launch an investigation into inappropriate behaviour at its Australian office.
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George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
A number of popular comic book creators, including DC Comics' James Tynion IV and Marvel's Nick Spencer, join Substack  —  A group of creators will publish new comic book stories, essays and how-to guides on the platform as a way to connect directly with fans.
Jen Mills / Metro.co.uk:
Anti-vaccine protestors try to storm the Television Centre in London, which was BBC's headquarters until 2013  —  A group of protesters have attempted to storm BBC premises in west London this afternoon.  —  The demonstrators, who are angry at coronavirus restrictions and about vaccine policy …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network reports Q2 revenue of $4.49B, up from $3.19B YoY; pay TV subs dropped by 67K, compared to a 96K drop in Q2 2020, as Sling TV added 65K subs  —  The company, led by chairman Charlie Ergen and CEO Erik Carlson, gained Sling TV users, but lost Dish TV customers.
Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg:
Sources: Cloud Village, the music streaming arm of Chinese gaming giant NetEase, is postponing the launch of its $1B Hong Kong IPO  —  - Cloud Village tested investor demand for the IPO last week  — Tech shares have been hit by Chinese regulatory clampdown
 
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As trackers, webcams, and other internet-of-things devices become cheaper and more user-friendly, they could become standard tools in journalists' toolkits
Max Willens / Digiday:
Parsely study of 1,400 publishers: in H1, traffic to sites that have 30K to 1M page views per month was down 40% compared to 2019 and down 27% at smaller sites
Jaden Edison / Poynter:
Interview with Stacy-Marie Ishmael, ex-EIC of Texas Tribune, on her experience of navigating 2020 as a newsroom leader and professional burnout
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[Thread] Politico owner Robert Allbritton emails staff about his opposition to a union, cites inflexibility and a loss of speed in reacting to new circumstances
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The State Department has a refugee plan for Afghans who worked for US news outlets, but workers still face violence or onerous travel if they seek resettlement
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At a panel, Jay Rosen and The Correspondent's Rob Wijnberg discuss lessons learned and why the startup failed, partially due to an excessive focus on marketing
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate”
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Bloomberg:
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region
 
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