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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Facebook's Trending News section features fake story about Megyn Kelly being fired, is shared thousands of times before finally being removed — Facebook has taken a story off its “Trending News” section after it was discovered to be a fake piece about Megyn Kelly being fired from Fox News.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Fox News, with an average viewer age of about 70, is relying on a disappearing demographic, and it's unclear if younger audiences will replace them — October 7, 2016, will be the 20th birthday of the Fox News Channel, and at the moment, the network is experiencing the soap-operatic highs …
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Rob Golum / Bloomberg:
Fox News has become the most-watched US cable network for the first time in its history, but its ad sales are still far behind ESPN, according to SNL Kagan — Fox News is top audience draw, while ESPN has higher ad sales — Marketers still favor sports, youth over age, current events
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@justin_b_smith, @niemanlab, @mcely and @chrispalmeri
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia increases the flow of false news stories spread in EU and US on social media and outlets like Sputnik, sometimes spilling into traditional news media — STOCKHOLM — With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone, who has taken control at Viacom, is considering merging with CBS, though CBS hasn't received indication that a deal is imminent — Settled lawsuits free daughter of ailing billionaire to lead — Recombining Viacom with CBS is said to be under consideration
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@gerryfsmith and @business
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
As Google and Facebook dominate advertising, the digital media market is likely to shrink and consolidate; strategies up until now have all been untested bets — Not too long ago, a senior figure at BuzzFeed told me at a private lunch that although BuzzFeed was going strong, everybody else in digital media was screwed.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News seeks to move Andrea Tantaros case to arbitration; in legal papers, Fox says the former host “is not a victim; she is an opportunist” — Attorneys for Fox News Channel Monday sought to have a suit filed by a former correspondent, Andrea Tantaros, against the 21st Century …
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The Wrap, Mediaite, CNNMoney, TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter, @poynter, @emilysteel, @erikwemple, @hadas_gold, @variety and The Huffington Post
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Q&A with Time Inc. chief content officer Alan Murray on growing digital revenue, building audiences across platforms, and breaking down silos across brands — Alan Murray has been a journalist since he was a 9-year-old kid, publishing his neighborhood newspaper.
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@jamcnn, @djbentley, @jeremymbarr, @alexjamesfitz, @byrogeryu, @keithtrivitt, @moreheadcain, @jamcnn, @editorialiste, @mathewi and @frankwords
James Barron / New York Times:
Penguin Random House partners with NYC transit to launch Subway Reads, a temporary service providing subway passengers with free e-books for their commute — Rainier Velardo watched the basketball-player-tall man in the blue shirt who sat down next to him — the man had gotten on at the last subway stop …
Alex Koppelman / CNNMoney:
AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll defends the news wire's story about meetings Clinton took as secretary of state, says tweet was “sloppy” — Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll is defending her organization's controversial investigation into meetings Hillary Clinton took …
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Amanda Palleschi / Columbia Journalism Review:
How a yoga magazine, Elephant Journal, reinvented its business model by ditching its print edition, launching a paywall, and splitting revenue with its writers — How does an unemployed thirty-something journalism school graduate with a background in Buddhist publishing take a flailing regional glossy …
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@storybench, @cjr, @coryschouten, @cjr, @mattsebastian, @cjr, @gary_thill, @journochat and @cjr
Jon Talton / Rogue Columnist:
A look back at the importance of newspapers and their buildings amid a wave of demolitions — Apparently, most Americans learned about the death spiral of metropolitan newspapers and the consequences from watching John Oliver. Then they went back to kitten videos on social media.
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@jontalton and @marynewsom
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