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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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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:
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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Raju Narisetti, senior vice president of strategy at News Corp, is named CEO of what was Gawker Media; company to be renamed Gizmodo Media Group — Raju Narisetti is the new CEO of the Gawker-less Gawker Media Group, which is being renamed the Gizmodo Media Group.
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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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ABC News teams up with Facebook to live stream the 2016 general election debates
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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 …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Comcast CEO says the company plans to debut a wireless service by mid-2017, using leased Verizon airwaves and Comcast's 14M+ Wi-Fi hot spots — Comcast just solidified long-rumored plans to launch its own MVNO cellular service. Speaking at an investor conference moments ago …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix CFO David Wells says company wants original content to make up 50% of its catalog within a few years, is currently “one-third to halfway” toward target — Netflix is driving toward having half the content on its streaming service be original productions over the next few years …
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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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Danielle Bacher / Esquire:
Behind Andrea Tantaros' $49M suit against Fox News: in run-up to suspension from the network, Tantaros accused Ailes and Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment — One evening this past April, Andrea Tantaros returned to her Manhattan apartment from a yoga class and picked out a series of outfits for the week ahead.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
French startup Ownpage tracks user behavior, creates personalized newsletters for publishers; Le Monde uses it to power a personalized section on its homepage — About two years ago, the daily French financial newspaper Les Echos was looking to expand its email newsletter offerings.
Will Fitzgibbon / ICIJ:
ICIJ, which coordinated the Panama Papers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and others publish investigation based on leaked files from the Bahamas corporate registry — New revelations published today by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung …
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