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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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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder — Which leaves Salesforce, for now. — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney …
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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple is also an unlikely suitor; Twitter stock falls around 20% after the news — 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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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.
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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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 JESSE WATTERS' TWEETS (Oct. 5th 10:30 pm EST) — “O'Reilly Factor” correspondent Jesse Watters issued two tweets in which he described …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Atlantic endorses Clinton, its third endorsement in 159 years, but the impact of editorials against Trump remains unclear — The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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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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Elizabeth Becker / Columbia Journalism Review:
How two reporters came to different conclusions for story on genocide and human rights abuse in Cambodia — Two reporters escaped with their lives, but left Cambodia with very different stories. History shows one was right. — 3765 WORDS … Last year, I was flown to Cambodia to testify …
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Interview with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, who says that over 100M people use its Stories feature daily — BuzzFeed News sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the CEO of Instagram for its sixth anniversary and looked back on the slew of changes the company has made to its product in recent months.
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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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David Kroman / Crosscut:
How the staff and community of Seattle public radio saved KPLU, now KNKX radio, by raising $8M in six months to buy its independence — Ariel Van Cleave was somewhere in Montana, driving from Ohio toward her new job with the Seattle-based public radio station KPLU, when her cellphone rang.