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6:25 AM ET, October 6, 2016

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Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney, which was mulling a possible Twitter purchase last week …

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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple also an unlikely suitor; Twitter's stock down about 10% after hours — Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims — According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

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Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:

Fusion's newsroom prepares to unionize with Writers Guild of America, East; management sends email saying move “would not be beneficial” for staff or company — Update: Management responds with company-wide email stating unionization “would not be beneficial for you or Fusion.”

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Nielsen: vice presidential debate drew 37.2M viewers across nine TV channels, the lowest number since the 2000 Cheney-Lieberman debate — Tuesday night's vice presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the VP debates in 2012 and 2008, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

BuzzFeed attacked by hacker group OurMine after publishing story identifying a member; group alters articles, claims to have seized database, threatens release — A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group.

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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:

Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 Kindle books and magazines including Sports Illustrated — In addition to faster shipping for products from its online store, Amazon's Prime subscription plan offers numerous benefits, including unlimited photo storage …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, VentureBeat and Engadget

Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:

Profile of Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, where data-driven political journalism attracted 10M unique visitors last month — On a Monday night in September, 2,000 people gathered at a theater off Times Square to watch five political journalists sit on a stage and talk about polls.

Discussion: @bypetevernon, @carlbialik, @thomaswilburn, @nicktheandersen and @albertocairo

Sami Main / Adweek:

Bloomberg relaunches Bloomberg Technology with 30%-50% faster page loading, rebrands TV news show from Bloomberg West to Bloomberg Technology — Bloomberg wants to get technology news to you anytime and from anywhere. — “Over the past year, we have assembled a top-notch team …

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Anna Merlan / Jezebel:

How marketers created “Rachel Brewson” and other online characters for a fake tale of romance and politics with actors posing on ABC Nightline to drive traffic — In December 2015, readers at women's site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson …

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