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1:30 PM ET, October 7, 2016

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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Shaun Walker / Guardian:
A decade after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, news organizations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin  —  A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin
Discussion: Melville House Books
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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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Former MTV exec Andy Schuon forms Every Day Networks, focused on over-the-top digital brands like Fuel TV, which it has acquired from Fox
Discussion: PR Newswire
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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
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder
 

 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens up its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo will release Horizon OS-compatible devices; Xbox plans a branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers
 
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