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12:40 PM ET, October 13, 2016

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Natasha Stoynoff / People.com:
Writer Natasha Stoynoff, who covered Trump for People Magazine in the early 2000s, tells her own story of alleged assault by Trump in December 2005  —  In December 2005, People Writer Natasha Stoynoff went to Mar-a-Largo to interview Donald and Melania Trump.  What she says happened next left her badly shaken.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Discovery Communications is investing $100M in a new holding company, Group Nine Media, to merge its digital network with Thrillist, NowThis, and The Dodo  —  Discovery Communications, in a major expansion of its digital footprint, is investing $100 million into a new digital media holding company …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
BuzzFeed to stream a live election night broadcast on Twitter, hopes to demystify how winners are called in key races  —  NEW YORK As politics obsessives turn to Twitter on Election Night, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith wants his site's coverage to be right there with them.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
More than 50% of Sky's independent shareholders voted against James Murdoch's reappointment as chairman, which was approved when 21st Century Fox voted in favor  —  More than 50% of Sky's independent shareholders have voted against James Murdoch's reappointment as chairman.
Discussion: @natecochrane and @guardian
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Facebook adds new ways to monetize Instant Articles, including video and carousel ads  —  Facebook has released new options around Instant Articles that lets publishers monetize their content.  For those that utilize a direct sold advertising business, they can now utilize larger …
Kyle Chayka / The Ringer:
Profile of Tomi Lahren, the conservative host of the daily Tomi show, who Glenn Beck hopes will turn TheBlaze around  —  The controversial conservative talking head and viral Facebook superstar is the perfect pundit for the age of Donald Trump.  Is she the next Ann Coulter or something even scarier?
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Business Insider's distributed arm, Insider, is focusing on producing more content for Instagram Stories than Snapchat, part of a larger bet on Instagram video  —  Many publishers have been busy building up Snapchat content teams, but Business Insider's distributed arm, known as simply Insider, is focused more on Instagram.
Hillary Grigonis / Digital Trends:
Google to shut down location-based photo sharing platform Panoramio on November 4, 2016, gives users until November 2017 to export photos  —  Google is shutting the doors to a once popular source of Google Maps images — Panoramio will be shut down on November 4.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Gawker Media's court filing shows it's trying to build a case against Peter Thiel over his financing of cases against Gawker, despite “heavy burden” of proof  —  Back in June, rumors floated that Gawker was exploring a lawsuit against Peter Thiel for “tortious interference and racketeering” …
Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
The Washington Post tracked Facebook's Trending Topics section over three weeks, uncovering five fake stories and three profoundly inaccurate ones  —  The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour …
 
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