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9:15 AM ET, August 29, 2019

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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Fox News of “heavily promoting the Democrats” and urges his Twitter followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet”  —  President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Fox News, accusing the conservative network of “heavily promoting the Democrats” …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu launches its live TV guide on the web, Roku, and Apple TV, and says the Live Guide is coming to other platforms soon  —  Yesterday, Hulu began rolling out an updated version of its mobile app sporting the brand-new interface the company first unveiled at CES in January.
Jeanine Santucci / USA Today:
Beto O'Rourke's staff removed a Breitbart writer from a campaign event, later saying site “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech”  —  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's staff had a Breitbart News writer removed from an event in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
NYT's Amy Chozick to co-author and co-produce The Girls on the Bus for Netflix, a fictional show about female reporters on the campaign trail  —  ‘The Girls on the Bus’ will be inspired by a chapter from New York Times journalist Amy Chozick's book, with the author attached as a writer.
Discussion: @amychozick, Jezebel, Variety and Deadline
Christopher R. Martin / Nieman Reports:
As newspapers wrote off working class readers in the '60s, and with no labor coverage in network/cable news, it's become clear more labor reporters are needed  —  A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today
Sophie Kleeman / VICE:
A-list celebrities, from Will Smith to Zac Efron to Alexa Chung, have recently become YouTube vloggers, adopting the feel of authenticity for the new medium  —  Over the past 20 or so months, some of the biggest stars in the world have turned to something people do to get famous in the first place: vlogging.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook tightens rules for political advertisers in the US, requiring further identity proof such as tax-ID number or Federal Election Commission registration  —  Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
Splinter:
Federal judge rules in favor of Gizmodo Media Group in a $100M lawsuit brought by ex-Trump spokesman Jason Miller over a story about a child custody case  —  A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Splinter, the site's managing editor, Katherine Krueger, and the site's parent company …
Rita El Khoury / Android Police:
YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week”  —  When it first launched, YouTube Kids had a one size fits all approach for all kids.  But since children are interested in different things …
 
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Inkitt, a crowdsourced publishing platform that has 1.6M readers and 110K writers, raises $16M Series A, and says its reading app Galatea has a run-rate of $6M
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