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8:50 PM ET, August 23, 2020

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Brian Stelter, whose new book Hoax explores the symbiotic ties between Fox News and Trump, says he was struck by the number of Fox staffers who miss Roger Ailes  —  If anyone was born to write a juicy book about the democracy-threatening relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump, it had to be Brian Stelter.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
AG Barr allegedly told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News analyst and Trump critic, last October according to a new book by Brian Stelter  —  The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
American Media's David Pecker, who OK'ed hush-money payments to women who had affairs with Trump, is out as CEO; AMI to merge with logistics firm Accelerate 360  —  Mr. Pecker is out as chief executive of American Media after two-decade tenure  —  David Pecker is stepping down as chief executive …
Max Willens / Digiday:
A number of counterfeit shows that copy the names of popular podcasts like “Serial” are being distributed via Spotify-owned podcast hosting service Anchor  —  Over the past year, Spotify has dominated the podcast news space with headlines about big investments in new shows hosted by A-list celebrities.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Group Nine has closed five longterm partnership deals in the past year that give brands exclusive advertising for 6-12 months after verticals launch or relaunch  —  This week, Group Nine's brands NowThis and The Dodo both launched two new verticals that both debuted with exclusive launch partners.
Discussion: @media_evan
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Study: “news avoiders” who access news media less than once a month tend to see journalism as complicit in the establishment rather than an independent watchdog  —  I love a good folk theory.  —  A folk theory is “a belief based on received wisdom, rather than concrete evidence, knowledge, or facts.”
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Live TV viewership of the Democratic National Convention fell 17.6% from 2016, with average nightly audience of 21.6M viewers; Biden's speech drew 24.6M viewers  —  Live television viewership for the Democratic National Convention fell 17.6 percent from 2016, but many Americans watched online.
Leo Schwartz / Rest of World:
DirecTV Venezuela, which had 10M users before closing in May due to US sanctions, resumed services after Chile-based Scale Capital acquired local operations  —  When DirecTV left the country, 10 million Venezuelans lost more than a television service.  —  May 19 was a crushing day for Gabriel Piedra …
Joe Berkowitz / Fast Company:
The Washington Post homepage was dominated by a Trump campaign ad on Thursday, sparking a furious debate as some say the purchase will fund journalism  —  The digital home of the Washington Post, that venerated beacon of American journalism, is currently an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
In memo, Boston Globe EIC announced the promotions of Anica Butler and Nestor Ramos, its first Black woman and first Latino editor respectively on its masthead  —  Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory today announced two promotions.  In a memo to the staff, McGrory said that Ideas section editor Anica Butler …
Discussion: @bosbizdon
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
BBC Sport strengthens moderation policies for its comments sections and vows to keep growing coverage of women's sports  —  BBC Sport has a message for its 8.5 million followers on Twitter.  The pinned tweet is part promise, part mission statement.  —  The BBC exists for all of us, so it should represent all of us.
Discussion: getrevue.co and @sarahscire
 
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Tim Schwab / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the correlation between $250M+ in journalism grants the Gates Foundation has made and the overwhelmingly positive coverage the foundation has received
Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero:
Q&A with Verge's Casey Newton on newsletter writing and how trust in tech press is eroded by algorithms, including Twitter's amplification of “snarky bastards”
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Digital Entertainment Group: total consumer home entertainment spending was up 26% YoY to $15.1B in H1 2020 with spending on digital formats up 37% YoY
Discussion: FierceVideo and Multichannel News
 Earlier Picks: 
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
WSJ CRO says 65% of the paper's ad revenue comes from B2B advertisers and that CPMs have grown 15% in the last year thanks to its first-party data collection
Discussion: MediaPost
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Gannett releases workforce demographics of USA Today and its local outlets for the first time, along with its goals for diversity and inclusion by 2025
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store