Mediagazer: How a phone tip quickly led to David Fahrenthold's story about a 2005 video with lewd Trump comments about women (Paul Farhi/Washington Post)

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How a phone tip quickly led to David Fahrenthold's story about a 2005 video with lewd Trump comments about women — Reporter David Fahrenthold got a phone call around 11 a.m. Friday from a source with a tip about Donald Trump. The source asked: Would Fahrenthold be interested in seeing some previously unaired video of Trump?

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Snapchat moves user posts to top of Stories feature, demotes content from Discover publishing partners, stops auto-advancing Stories, and adds Playlist feature — You'll see all your friends' Stories first now. — Snapchat is making a small but important tweak to how it displays, and then plays, user Stories inside its app.

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Snap, formerly Snapchat, hires New York Post President David Brinker to lead business development for the company's content division — Snapchat has hired New York Post president David Brinker to an unspecified role on the company's content division, Variety has learned exclusively.

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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.

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J.K. Trotter / Gizmodo:

Lawyer Charles Harder, hired by Thiel in earlier suits, continues legal threats against Gizmodo Media over older posts and against Univision for staffer's quote — Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel has defended his legal attack against Gawker Media by claiming the company …

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The Verge reports almost all content view growth is in video, particularly on Facebook; article views are flat YoY; AMP views represent 14% of Verge traffic — I'm only crying because I'm happy about new opportunities, I swear — The Verge turns five on November 1st …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vice Media is set to debut its new finance website Vice Money on Sunday, to coincide with premier of Vice News Tonight on HBO and Vice News site relaunch — Vice Media is set to debut its finance and business news and video website, Vice Money, as the youth-targeted media company parlays its brand into another vertical category.

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Jackson McHenry / Vulture:

Gimlet Media cut Starlee Kine's Mystery Show as she was working on its second season; she is in discussions with Gimlet to produce the podcast independently — This might explain why you haven't heard much news about that podcast you love: Mystery Show, the podcast that charmingly investigated …

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Audiences are calculated differently across TV and the web: TV looks for the average number of viewers across the entire program, web counts cumulative views — A year ago, Yahoo became the first company to live stream a regular-season NFL game all around the world.

Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:

Chicago Sun-Times promotes two investigative journalists to top spots in newsroom in move to get back to watchdog reporting — After five mystifying (and let's be honest, pretty wretched) years under the ownership of wannabe journalism mogul and investor Michael Ferro …

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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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Bloomberg, CBS News, WSJ, ESPN, and other publishers have opted out of Facebook Instant Articles, as they evaluate the feature's costs and benefits — A year after Facebook Instant Articles launched, 100 or so publishers were taking advantage of the feature, which loads mobile articles lightning fast.

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