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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on calling out lies, embracing video, and building a more digital newsroom — How long is two years in editor years? — Leading any daily newspaper in this age is challenging, but leading The New York Times is an exercise unto itself.
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Oculus announces exclusive deal for Blade Runner 2049 movie content and a deal with Disney — The newly announced “Blade Runner 2049” will extend beyond the movie screen when it is being released in October of 2017: sci-fi fans will also step into the world of a movie with virtual reality experiences …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Daybreak is a new morning briefing for Bloomberg's roughly 325K terminal subscribers; three separate editions are produced by teams in NY, Hong Kong, and London — A year and a half ago, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got some editors together around an idea: Could Bloomberg be grabbing its readers earlier in the day?
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Bill de Blasio's public snub of a NY Post reporter was unique in the history of discord between City Hall and the press, escalating a long war with the tabloids — For weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio has barely disguised his disgust for the coverage of his administration in The New York Post.
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
China's Dalian Wanda Group faces scrutiny for Hollywood investments as US Rep. John Culberson asks for Justice Department review — Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, has set his sights on Hollywood in recent years with the acquisition of several entertainment companies.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Despite the work of fact-checkers, the disinformation spread by Trump, Pence, and others is gaining currency as cable TV has devolved from news to discussion — It's official: A time-honored political dark art has gone flamboyantly public. Who's to blame? Start with cable news.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sources: BitTorrent fires its co-CEOs and an unknown number of staffers, is closing its Los Angeles production studio and Now streaming service — BitTorrent has fired its two co-CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson and laid of an unknown number of staffers, Variety has learned from multiple sources.
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Paul Cheung / Asian American Journalists Association:
AAJA demands an apology from Fox News for Jesse Watters' racist segment on Chinese American voters; Watters says he regrets if anyone found offense — RESPONSE TO FOX NEWS INVITATION TO APPEAR ON THE BILL O'REILLY SHOW (Oct. 6th 2:00 pm EST) — AAJA has reached out to David Tabacoff …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity trade insults over their divergent approaches to covering Trump, the latest example of a widening ideological rift inside Fox News — Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity, who have back-to-back shows on Fox News, have a sharp difference of opinion about Donald Trump.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Economist is joining Snapchat's Discover feature, publishing 14-17 snaps each weekend; the partnership could help Snapchat appeal to older users — Snapchat is bringing more serious news to its Discover section, adding a new channel from The Economist this weekend.
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew study: about 40% of American adults under 50 prefer reading news, mostly online; more than half of Americans over 50 opt for watching the news on TV — When it comes to technology's influence on America's young adults, reading is not dead - at least not the news.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The BBC's Taster platform, launched in 2015, lets audiences rate pilot projects for three months to help decide if an idea should move forward or get spiked — Is there an audience out there for classic natural history programming à la David Attenborough, but dubbed …
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@poynter, @michaelcannell, @niemanlab and bbc.co.uk