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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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Leaked memo: Billy Bush suspended from Today show, pending internal review at NBC following 2005 video of him making lewd comments with Donald Trump — “Today” show host Billy Bush has been suspended from the show pending an “internal review” at the network in the wake of his part …
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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Source: the producer of The Apprentice, Mark Burnett, told staffers he will sue anyone who leaks unaired footage from the show — “The Apprentice” Under Pressure To Release Unaired Trump Footage — A powerful Hollywood ally of Donald Trump has threatened staffers who could release …
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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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Memo: Fusion Executive Editor Dodai Stewart is promoted to Editor-in-Chief; Alexis Madrigal now editor-at-large, will continue to exec produce Real Future show — Today FUSION named Dodai Stewart its new Editor-in-Chief as Alexis Madrigal returns to writing and producing in his new role as Editor-at-Large.
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
For the first time ever, Foreign Policy endorses a presidential candidate: Hillary Clinton — For the first time in Foreign Policy's nearly 50-year history, it has endorsed a candidate for president: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. — “In the nearly half century history of Foreign Policy …
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Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says expansion into China “doesn't look good” in light of shut downs of Disney's and Apple's movie services in the country — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings insists, “We're not trying to predict the future we're trying to invent it.” — In the near term that future won't be in China.
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David Pidgeon / Mediatel:
Guardian, in ad tech experiment, buys its own ad inventory, finds in some cases, it only gets 30% of the revenue — In worst case scenarios, for every pound an advertiser spends programmatically on the Guardian only 30 pence actually goes to the publisher.
Eszter Zalan / EUobserver:
Hungary's largest daily paper, Nepszabadsag, closes prompting fears of government clampdown on media, but owner Mediaworks says it is revising business model — Hungary's largest daily newspaper was unexpectedly shut down on Saturday (8 October), fuelling concerns over a government crackdown on critical media.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian judges order writer to serve six-year jail term for writing an unpublished fictional story about stoning; there was no trial — Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee ordered without trial to serve six years in Evin jail for unpublished fiction on stoning to death in Iran
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Viacom's BET Networks launches BET Now video service, streaming BET programming on Apple TV, Google Chromecast, and Roku — Viacom's BET Networks is now streaming programming on three connected-TV devices — Apple TV, Google's Chromecast and Roku players — although the cabler's “TV Everywhere” …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Ahead of its nightly news show debut on HBO, Vice rebrands its site to match style of its two TV shows, enabling it to cross-promote content across site and TV — Just in time for the debut of its nightly news show on HBO, Vice News has revamped its website to match the style of its second television news series.
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