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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 …
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NPR:
NPR annotates full transcript of first presidential debate with fact-checks, analysis, and context
NPR annotates full transcript of first presidential debate with fact-checks, analysis, and context
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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 …
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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.
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Antonio José Vielma / CNBC:
Sources: Twitter sale could happen in the next 30 to 45 days
Sources: Twitter sale could happen in the next 30 to 45 days
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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.
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Andy / TorrentFreak:
Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement — Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.
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) …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook disabled accounts of several prominent Palestinian journalists last week, then restored them and admitted error, a continuing pattern — The social platform's temporary suspension of several Palestinian journalist accounts is its latest “error,” with no policy change in sight.
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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.
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
As the use of eyewitness videos in news grows, organizations and individuals grapple with verification, monetization, and the flood of media pleas to use videos — Allison Griswald was relaxing in her apartment after a long July day at work when she heard a popping sound coming from the street outside.
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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 …
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