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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
This American Life debuts Shortcut, a new tool that lets visitors select audio clips and turn them into videos that can be shared on FB, Twitter, elsewhere — Of the many problems that vex podcast and radio producers, the shareability of audio — or the lack thereof — remains at or near the top of the list.
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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?
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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 …
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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.
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Karissa Bell / Mashable:
Twitter is testing an “Explore” tab in place of “Moments” on its mobile apps, highlighting news, trending topics, and more — Twitter may be getting ready to make some big changes to its app. — The company is now testing a change that replaces the Moments tab …
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Jared Goyette / Guardian:
Freelance journalist Lindsey Snell, detained in Turkey for two months for “violating a military zone”, is freed and returning to US — Lindsey Snell, arrested on 6 August after crossing border with Syria where she was filming civilians affected by airstrikes, says she was kept with Isis militants
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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Sources: Warner Bros. in talks to buy Machinima in deal valuing company under $100M — Warner Bros. is in advanced talks to buy full ownership of online video network Machinima in a deal that values the company at under $100 million, according to one person close to the talks and another briefed on it.
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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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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” …
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