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1:20 PM ET, September 28, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: presidential debate drew a total of 84M viewers across 13 traditional TV channels; streaming alternatives not included in count  —  Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history.  —  More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
YouTube says it had nearly 2M concurrent viewers for Monday night's presidential debate, making it one of the most watched live streams of all time  —  Record turnout for a live streaming political event  —  YouTube says it had nearly 2 million live concurrent viewers during Monday night's …
Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes and Washington Post
NPR:
NPR annotates full transcript of first presidential debate with fact-checks, analysis, and context
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Despite network-wide memo saying unscientific online polls do not meet Fox News' editorial standards, Hannity, others cited them as evidence Trump won debate  —  A Fox News executive sent a memo to television producers and the politics team on Tuesday afternoon reminding employees …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Twitter opens the creation and curation of Moments to all users via the web app, coming soon to mobile  —  Twitter Moments — those collections of tweets about certain subjects, often the ones that are in the news and are being discussed by lots of users — now make a lot more sense.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos joins Spotify's board  —  Spotify wants to make a splash in video — kind of like Netflix.  —  Spotify wants to branch out from music to video.  This could help: The streaming music company is adding Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content boss, to its board of directors.
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Post-bankruptcy, film studio Relativity aims to reinvent itself, with funding from a billionaire backer and the hire of ex-House of Cards producer Dana Brunetti  —  A year ago, the company's epic meltdown ended in bankruptcy.  Now, in an exclusive interview, Kavanaugh reveals his relaunch strategy …
Reuters:
Sources: National Amusements could call for CBS, Viacom to explore merger this week, asking them to form independent board committees to consider options  —  Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc (NAI), the controlling shareholder of CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) …
Alex T. Williams / Columbia Journalism Review:
Number of journalists at digital-only publishers has plateaued in the past three years, suggesting economic models for digital native publishers are in flux  —  It probably comes as no surprise that jobs for journalists at newspapers continue to disappear.  But in a disturbing development …
Discussion: @ajlisteningpost and Forbes
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
News Corp. invests $10M in ad tech company AppNexus, as part of $31M round, with involvement from Yahoo Japan and existing investors  —  Ad tech company AppNexus has raised a $31 million funding round, which includes a $10 million investment from News Corp, involvement from Yahoo Japan, and participation from its existing investors.
Alan Prendergast / Denver Westword:
How Alden Global Capital is harvesting the cash from The Denver Post, which has lost a third of its staff since June 2015  —  Two years ago, Woodrow Wilson Paige Jr. flew to New York in a state of keen anticipation.  He had been summoned by the top management of MediaNews Group …
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Andrea Tantaros' attorney says she has turned down seven-figure settlement from Fox and will continue to press ahead with her case against the network
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The inside story of the uneasy relationship UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has with the mainstream media
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts Daily Mix playlists, which are based on your favorite tunes and play artists familiar to you, unlike Discover Weekly, coming to iOS, Android
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Google debuts data-friendly YouTube Go app for Android in India, with offline viewing, Bluetooth sharing, better video previews and resolution settings, more
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC unveils a new chip manufacturing technology called A16, and says the company plans to start producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to $125B investment to build a “megafab” in New York and Idaho over the next 20 years
 
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