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3:55 PM ET, August 9, 2021

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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Sources: MLB and Barstool Sports are in talks about a deal to create a new type of broadcast of national midweek games with a focus on in-game gambling  —  Major League Baseball and Barstool Sports have had significant negotiations about having national midweek games on the site's platforms, The Post has learned.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud / Columbia Journalism Review:
How nine news outlets used automation for reporting on the pandemic, from continuously updated charts to automated stories sent to Slack for journalists' review  —  For all the news organizations that have adopted automated journalism over the last decade or so, the COVID-19 pandemic …
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  —  Want to find out what the city is doing with homeless people's belongings when it “clears” an encampment?  An answer's now just $29 away.
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?
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.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Four editors from City Pages, a Minnesota alt-weekly closed by Star Tribune Media in Oct. '20, launch Racket, a reader-funded, writer-owned digital news startup  —  Minnesota's City Pages was closed after its parent company said the pandemic had made the alt-weekly “economically unviable.”
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