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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC News waited for legal clearance before airing video of Donald Trump making lewd remarks about women, then got scooped by The Washington Post — NBC News was aware of video footage of Donald Trump making lewd and disparaging remarks about women for nearly four days, a network executive said Saturday …
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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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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian judges order writer to serve six-year jail term for writing an unpublished fictional story about stoning — Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee ordered without trial to serve six years in Evin jail for unpublished fiction on stoning to death in Iran — Iranian judges have ordered a young female writer …
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Amy Haimerl / New York Times:
How indie bookshops are using the internet to boost retail sales, through free shipping, social media, personalized recommendations, online characters, and more — TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — When Peter Makin opened Brilliant Books five years ago, he quickly realized his business wouldn't survive …
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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Thomson Reuters to expand tech center in Toronto with a focus on cognitive computing, adding 400 jobs; CEO will move to city next year — CEO of company will relocate to Toronto in coming weeks — Thomson Reuters unveiled plans Friday to create 400 jobs in Canada over the next two years …
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.
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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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 …
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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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