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11:10 AM ET, August 18, 2016

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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times closes down its NYT Now app, no longer available for download starting the week of August 29  —  In early 2014, The New York Times introduced an app called NYT Now that would provide a curated list of stories — for a lower price than a full digital subscription …
Charlotte England / The Independent:
Egypt's state broadcaster ERTU suspends eight of its female hosts, ordering them to lose weight, sparking outrage among women's rights groups  —  Egypt's state broadcaster has suspended eight female television presenters because it says they are overweight.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump's partnership with Steve Bannon highlights the blurred lines between journalism and media activism  —  Political communications and media activism take a step closer.  —  BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief  —  The effective merger of Donald Trump's campaign for president and the obstreperous …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Trump campaign insider Jason Miller says “media bias” email blasts to the press makes journalists think twice, and Roger Stone says media criticism earns votes  —  The Trump campaign's email blast war against what it considers biased reporting is about to resume, according to its commander …
Discussion: Daily Wire, @hadas_gold and Mashable
New York Times:
Trump hires Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon to lead campaign in shakeup
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Ex-Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro says Steve Bannon led the site to openly embrace white supremacists, may work with Trump on a new media outlet
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Fate of Gawker.com Remains Unclear After Univision Acquisition of Gawker Media  —  Following a day-long auction against the online publisher Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate Univision is buying Gawker Media's assets—including Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker—for $135 million.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision wants Gawker Media's blogs to shore up its reach to a younger digital audience ahead of a potential IPO  —  Univision is the biggest Hispanic media company in the U.S. Why in the world does it want Gawker Media, the aggressively impudent digital publisher that sold itself in a bankruptcy auction?
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Gawker Media's complicated tax structure, with headquarters in the Caymans, sheltered revenue from taxes and could shield some of Nick Denton's assets
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Gannett sweetens bid for Tronc, which had rejected prior bid of $15 per share and is expected to respond by the end of the week  —  The new overture comes after Tronc rejected a prior bid of $15 a share  —  Gannett Co. has privately sweetened its bid for Tronc Inc. …
Elizabeth Jensen / Commentary : NPR:
As of August 23, comments on NPR's website will be disabled; in July, 419K comments were made by just 19.4K users, representing 0.06% of site's overall visitors  —  NPR is making an announcement today that is sure to upset a loyal core of its audience, those who comment online at NPR.org (including those who comment on this blog).
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
A second Gatehouse Media newspaper in Florida, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, takes steps to unionize with the NewsGuild as buyouts loom  —  Newsroom employees at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune took steps to unionize Wednesday, just days after journalists at a sister publication, the Lakeland Ledger …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Instagram starts showing US users personalized video suggestions of live events in the Explore tab  —  The photo sharer is getting into event curation again.  —  Instagram really wants to become a video destination.  It's one of the reasons (I suspect) it built its own version …
New York Times:
Fairfax Media's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age may stop printing on weekdays, as newspaper readership falls about 50% since 2011 in Australia  —  They pushed for women to get the vote in Australia's national elections.  They brought down a central bank board member.  And they helped convict a state official.
Financial Times:
Daily Telegraph owners rebuffed two potential buyers: consortium led by Richard Addis and, source says, London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev  —  The owners of the Daily Telegraph, Sir David and Frederick Barclay, have rebuffed two expressions of interest from potential buyers …
Discussion: Guardian
 
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James Dennin / Mic:
Video streaming service Cheddar appoints ex-BuzzFeed exec Eric Harris as COO; Harris says the company is growing very fast, needs additional structures
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Thanks:@jonsteinberg