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Spriha Srivastava / CNBC: UK broadcaster Sky says it has accepted $39B takeover offer from Comcast, urges shareholders to accept the offer immediately -
Alex Sherman / CNBC: Source: Comcast is willing to sell its 30% stake in streaming service Hulu to Disney — - Comcast expects Disney will let go of its 39 percent stake … -
Michael Sheetz / CNBC: Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music … -
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast: A look at how Barstool Sports employees, fans regularly harass female reporters, with founder Dave Portnoy once asking if a woman “kind of deserves to be raped” -
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up -
Hollywood Reporter: NBC Entertainment head Bob Greenblatt to be replaced by new co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy, effective immediately -
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / Jezebel: Five women describe emotional abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting by Mic writer Jack Smith IV; Mic says it found no evidence of improper behavior by him at Mic -
Isaac Chotiner / Slate: Interview with NYT reporter Michael Schmidt about evaluating and protecting sources in his latest story on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: The Guardian's special projects head Mark Rice-Oxley tells journalism seminar mental health should be part of diversity conversations and performance reviews -
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: In an effort to reach $8M for its ICO, Civil to sell CVL tokens using direct payments after complains about the complexity of the buying process -
Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A with Emptywheel's blogger Marcy Wheeler on disclosing a source to the FBI, a Russian spy who “manipulated” the American press, and more -
Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz: Chartbeat: when Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on August 3 in many parts of the world, direct traffic to news websites spiked by 11%, search was up 8%