Mediagazer: American Society of News Editors changes membership dues tiers to focus on monthly unique visitors rather than print circulation (Benjamin Mullin/Poynter)

4:35 PM ET, October 4, 2016

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Source: along with the NYT, the Daily News received three pages from Trump's 1995 state tax returns, but its reporters couldn't verify that they were real — The New York Times wasn't the only news outlet to receive documents from Donald Trump's tax returns. But they were the only ones to successfully vet them.

Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump's threat to sue NYT for publishing his taxes is at least the 11th time he's threatened to sue a news org or journalist during his campaign for president

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix shares climb above $100 on Monday and Tuesday, fuelled by Disney acquisition rumour — Netflix shares climbed above $100 per share on Monday, to their highest levels since May — fueled by a rumor circulating on Wall Street that Disney might possibly be interested in acquiring the video-streaming leader.

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
As Disney's shares dip, speculation mounts that it's looking to grow through acquisitions that would be less obvious than previous deals with Pixar, Marvel

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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:

FOIA Wiki, a free, interactive tool for reporters, has launched in beta, featuring forums, directories, and explainers focused on federal sunshine law — If confusion is the first step to knowledge, FOIA users must be geniuses. Fee categories. Pre-determination agency actions. Multitrack processing.

Discussion: Nieman Lab and @freedomofpress

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

American Society of News Editors changes membership dues tiers to focus on monthly unique visitors rather than print circulation — In a sign of the continuing industry-wide shift away from print, the American Society of News Editors on Tuesday announced that its membership structure …

Discussion: @testycopyeditor and @mizellstewart

Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:

The Guardian creates an in-house virtual reality team, composed of five editorial staffers led by Francesca Panetta as executive editor — Guardian News and Media has created an in-house virtual reality team, becoming one of the first UK news media publishers to invest dedicated resources in the emerging technology.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

The Guardian, Wired, are turning to crowdsourcing to identify bad ads on their sites, encouraging staff, readers, to report them, in bid to defeat ad-blocking — Once or twice a week, Jen Soch, evp of commercial delivery for The Guardian, gets an email from a colleague alerting her to a problem ad on the site.

Discussion: @lmoses

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Gawker Media's liquidation plan reveals that Nick Denton, other Gawker execs may face claims of breach of fiduciary duties, with an investigation underway — The bankrupt Nick Denton company also is proposing that two-thirds of Univision's $135 million be allocated to its Hungarian affiliate.

John McCarthy / The Drum:

Mail Plus, Daily Mail's paid-for digital edition, becomes the first UK news brand to integrate with Amazon's Alexa; Echo speaker can read out Daily Mail stories — The Daily Mail is the first UK newsbrand to make use of Amazon's personal home assistant Alexa, with the Echo speaker able to read out the news on demand.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Two weeks since its launch, Vice's UK TV channel, Viceland, scored zero ratings on some nights, with maximum viewership reaching 14K — Channel has only attracted peak audience of just under 14,000 during 9pm to 11pm in its first two weeks of broadcast, according to analysis

Discussion: Business Insider and @thenewsshooter

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

US news organizations face increasing requests from individuals to take down old embarrassing stories and generally deal with issues case by case — Legacy news organizations have been trying for more than a decade to crack the code of what to publish digitally, where and when.

Discussion: @themurdochtimes and @mediatwit

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon's ComiXology expands into original content, creating its own comics — It makes sense - Amazon makes Prime Originals for video, so why wouldn't its digital comics brand make its own comics? Now, ComiXology is doing just that with the debut of ComiXology Originals …

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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:

AT&T's OTT service DirecTV Now signs carriage agreement with Viacom, adding cable networks including MTV, Comedy Central, and VH1 to its line-up — OTT service will carry 12 Viacom nets at launch — AT&T's pending over-the-top service DirecTV Now continues to add content partners …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim had her passport confiscated by British airport authorities because the Assad regime had reported it stolen — It is 12 days since the British authorities confiscated the passport of the Syrian journalist, Zaina Erhaim, a prominent critic of Bashar al-Assad.