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New York Magazine will expand its Intelligencer site in October, adding Josh Barro, Zak Cheney-Rice, and Sarah Jones to its staff and incorporating Select All — New York Media today announced the upcoming launch of Intelligencer, a new destination covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.
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@onesarahjones, @zakcheneyrice and @jbarro
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New York Media names Boris Kachka as book editor as it seeks to triple books coverage across properties with more coverage of audiobooks, genres, and authors — The best house, in my opinion, is a house where books are everywhere: not just on a single shelf in the living room …
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@mariskreizman, @millie, @pgourevitch, @laurahazardowen, @borisk, @tedgioia, @shansquared, Vulture, Publishers Lunch and kottke.org


The New York Times has issued a correction after mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa Manigault Newman in a caption in its Emmys coverage — The New York Times made quite the mix-up in Tuesday's print edition, mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa Manigault Newman in a caption on its coverage of Monday night's Emmy Awards.
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@juliareinstein, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Observer, @zerlinamaxwell and @dictionarycom


Facebook begins classifying news Pages to determine which publishers' ads will be in the news section of Facebook's Ad Archive, details criteria for news Pages — Facebook is moving forward with its controversial Ad Archive with a new system being announced today that will decide where to include individual publishers in the archive.
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Axios, Facebook Media and Adweek


HBO and Netflix tie for the most Emmy wins, taking home 23 each; Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won eight awards; Hulu won four — HBO is still the Emmy champion — but it has some company at the top. — The streaming era has already turned the TV business upside down …
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Early figures show the Emmys ratings downturn has continued, falling 10% YoY, despite NBC moving it to Monday; the last time it had 12M+ viewers was in 2014
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MediaPost, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Full Feed, New York Times, The Week and @deadlinedominic


Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies — Over the last 2 years AMP has grown from a tiny open source project with just 2 contributors to a much larger one with over 700 folks contributing over 10,000 commits running on many millions of websites.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Android Police, @occhris and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey nominates ProPublica as a company that will “shake up” digital in the next 25 years, for Wired's “Wired @ 25” issue — I DISCOVERED PROPUBLICA about two years ago and became interested in it right away because of its mission …
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@laurengoode, @wired, @propublica and @wiredculture


In the press, women's accounts of abuse are only believed after being thoroughly fact-checked, while men like Jian Ghomeshi are believed when they “confess” — Edvard Munch, “Melancholy,” 1891. — Let's put aside content for the moment, and talk about form.
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@haleymlotek, @nausjcaa and @jon_allsop


Sources: Julie Chen to step down from CBS' The Talk but will continue to host Big Brother after CEO Les Moonves' exit amid accusations of sexual misconduct — Julie Chen is stepping down from “The Talk” on CBS, one week after her husband Les Moonves left the CBS Corporation under pressure.
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Variety, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, @cnnbrk, The Daily Beast, Hollywood Life, @nymag, TVNewser, Full Feed, Page Six, The A.V. Club, The Daily Caller, TV Insider, Hollywood Reporter, AOL, The Week, TV Tattle and Mashable


Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner is joining Netflix's board of directors — As boss of the European publishing giant, Dopfner oversees titles including Politico Europe and Germany's Bild and Die Welt. — Mathias Dopfner, chairman and CEO of European publishing giant Axel Springer …
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Variety


Ex-ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross talks about the erroneous report on Michael Flynn which led to him leaving the network — Brian Ross resigned from ABC News after making an erroneous assertion about the president. The ensuing hysteria made him feel he had been put ‘on a kind of enemies list.’
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@thedailybeast


Condé Nast names Spin's Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel EIC of Pitchfork, the web-based music publication it acquired in 2015 — Spin's editor in chief Puja Patel is taking the helm of Pitchfork. — Another day, another editor change within Condé Nast.