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Politico:
CNN says reports of Lewandowski suspension are untrue while the Trump campaign says it will continue to pay him through remainder of 2016 — Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will be paid by the campaign through the end of 2016, heightening concerns of a conflict of interest for CNN …
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Media Matters for America
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Charley Lanyon / New York Magazine:
Fox says it didn't know about Sean Hannity's appearance in recent Trump campaign video, says the network star will not appear in any in future — Fox has confirmed that it did not know about a recent Trump promotional video featuring Sean Hannity, and that Hannity would not be appearing in similar videos in the future.
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Washington Post, CNNMoney, Politico, @rosiegray, @ybbkaren, @timobrien, @fmanjoo, @kagrox, @tomkludt, @eleutheria_heis and @ericboehlert
Washington Post:
Trump's Federal Election Commission filing shows former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski received $20K for strategy consulting in August while working for CNN — Last month at this time, regular readers will recall, we posed this question: Donald Trump is finally raising money. So why isn't he spending it?
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@mikemadden, @karol, @mateagold and @philiprucker
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter will live stream Bloomberg's coverage of all three presidential debates, split revenue from ads displayed during pre-debate and post-debate coverage — Hillary versus Trump, live on Twitter. — When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in their first nationally televised Presidential debate …
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FishbowlNY, Fast Company, Media Wire Daily, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, The Verge, @niketa, @brianstelter and @digiphile
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ABC News teams up with Facebook to live stream the 2016 general election debates
ABC News teams up with Facebook to live stream the 2016 general election debates
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The Hill, Fortune, Variety, The Next Web, The Week, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, SocialTimes, The Verge, Engadget, CNNMoney, Variety and Gizmodo
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Viacom's interim CEO and President Tom Dooley will depart November 15, as search for permanent CEO continues — Viacom's new interim CEO and president Tom Dooley is set to exit the company — yes, already. — Additionally, the company announced on Wednesday that it has dropped …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @ej_fournier, Business Wire, @alexweprin, @edmundlee, @edmundlee and @alexweprin
Mike Klein / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Sunlight Foundation exploring merger or alliances with other organizations, will discontinue tool building and database maintenance, will retire OpenCongress — The board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation has reached some important conclusions about our future.
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@krmaher, @derekwillis, @ddayen, @anthony, Fast Company, @pahlkadot, @lizbart, @meredithshiner, @digiphile, @caitlinweber, @zreeseplus, @internetrebecca, @digiphile, @dangillmor, @digiphile, @b_fung, @jgreendc, @zfurnas and @raju
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Source: Sunlight Foundation will lay off about five staffers out of about 20, a major drop from a staff count of about 40 in early 2014 — The Sunlight Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting transparency in government, will lay off five staffers in the coming weeks …
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@emptywheel, @digiphile and @eads
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
AAP: mass market paperback sales down 25.5% YoY in Q1 2016, as decline in e-book sales continues — Sales of adult books fell 10.3% in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the first period of 2015. Sales of children's/YA titles dipped 2.1%, according to figures released by the AAP's StatShot program.
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Editor of Norway's Aftenposten Espen Egil Hansen challenges Mark Zuckerberg to discuss Facebook's control of news and content — Head of Aftenposten, which forced backdown over ‘napalm girl’ photo, accuses Facebook founder of hiding from debate — The Norwegian editor who successfully took …
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Guardian, @eghan and @openrightsgroup
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Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
The New York Times partners with Google Jigsaw for comment moderation, sharing comment archive with Jigsaw and using predictive models to help moderators — The New York Times is working together with Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Alphabet, Google's parent company, to improve and expand its comments section.
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
Leaked PricewaterhouseCoopers report shows BBC journalists are paid up to 40% more than commercial rivals — BBC journalists are paid up to forty per cent more than their competitors in the commercial sector, according to a leaked review of salaries in the corporation's news division.
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Press Gazette, @stuartclarkson and Daily Mail
Roger Cheng / CNET:
AT&T CEO says company will launch online streaming video service, DirecTV Now, in Q4, will feature 100+ premium channels and “aggressive” price points — Not a fan of your cable provider? AT&T is prepping an alternative for you. The Dallas-based telecommunications giant plans …