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Financial Times:
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Twitter bid: “In this case we've walked away. It wasn't the right fit for us”; Twitter shares down about 6% on news — CEO Benioff says messaging platform is not ‘right fit’ for his cloud company — The boss of Salesforce.com has ruled out his company …
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CNBC, USA Today, New York Times, ZDNet, Reuters, Fortune, @mathewi, GeekWire and Business Insider
Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Competitive pressure and the notion that everything belongs in the public domain are leading some news sites to recklessly publish stolen private data — In 1972, a group of burglars working for the Republican Party broke into Democratic headquarters in the dead of night …
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The Intercept, @ggreenwald, Fortune, @digiphile and CBS News
Reuters:
A Reuters review of state and federal court records suggests that Donald Trump has not sued a newspaper for libel since 1984 — Donald Trump hasn't sued a newspaper for libel in three decades, despite the Republican presidential nominee repeatedly threatening to do so over the course of his business career …
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@reuterspolitics, @perezpena, @sopandeb, @flitteronfraud, @lukereuters, @ritholtz, @fedcourtjunkie, @pdacosta, Fortune and Guardian
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Politico:
The New York Times refuses demand from Trump attorneys to retract article in which two women accuse Trump of touching them inappropriately
The New York Times refuses demand from Trump attorneys to retract article in which two women accuse Trump of touching them inappropriately
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Washington Post, The Huffington Post, New York Times, Editor & Publisher, Independent Journal Review, New York Times, bet.com, NPR, New Urban Legends, Quartz, Vanity Fair, Guardian, New York Magazine, The Week, Talking New Media, Hit & Run, Mother Jones, FTVLive, PRI, Talking Points Memo, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Wrap, Joe.My.God., Forbes, Techdirt, Hot Air, Law News, Daily Mail, Fortune, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, Boing Boing, @dtwyman, The Drum, Mediaite, CNNMoney, SMG, FishbowlNY, CNN, Mashable, Deadline, Jezebel, TVNewser, Variety, AOL, The Stranger …, @monikabauerlein, @dylanbyers, Washington Post, Fox News Insider, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Committee to Protect …, @sulliview, The Nation News, @brianstelter, @adamsbeck, @lpolgreen, @alanblinder, The Gateway Pundit, @mlcalderone, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast and FishbowlDC
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
The conspiracy theories Donald Trump espouses show he has fully embraced the Breitbart worldview, pushing nationalist narratives into the mainstream discourse — Donald Trump on Thursday railed against a conspiratorial plot by the Democrats, corporations and the mainstream media …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Eastern NC news organizations relocate staff, shift some distribution to Facebook, and cooperate with competitors in hurricane's wake — On Saturday, The Robesonian flooded in Lumberton, North Carolina. — That day, The Fayetteville Observer in Fayetteville, North Carolina lost power for awhile.
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@aliciadotbanks, MediaFile and Associated Press
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Interview with new Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, on the shift from writer to editor, hiring plans, mentoring staffers, and the historic Clinton endorsement — The Atlantic's new editor talks about his plans for the magazine, Donald Trump and the future of the Middle East.
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FishbowlDC, @jackshafer, @amyspiro, @jakesherman, @blakehounshell and @hadas_gold
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
How UK's Sun uses Facebook to grow audience, boost traffic, and build brand recognition after paywall, dropped last November, left it with low search rankings — National tabloid The Sun has learned a lot since dropping its paywall last November. For starters, the News UK-owned title …
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@girlfromafrica and @digiday
Max Willens / Digiday:
Q&A with newly named Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer, on media consolidation, long-form video content, expanding into new verticals, more — Three months ago, Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer declared on the Digiday podcast that his company would be on TV within a year.
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Variety, @justin_b_smith, @rafat, @devongiddon, @spencerreiss, @tylerborchers, Recode, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Adweek, WWD and Fortune
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, with 792K Twitter followers, publicized the address and phone number of a Trump accuser, then apologizes — Fox Business News anchor Lou Dobbs publicized the address and phone number of Jessica Leeds, one of the women who accused Donald Trump of groping her, to his 792,000 followers on Thursday morning.
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Mediaite, Berry, Vox, FTVLive, iMediaEthics, SOOPERMEXICAN, Independent Journal Review, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Business Insider, CNNMoney, The Wrap, Joe.My.God., Washington Post, The Week, twitchy.com, @shannonrwatts, @loudobbs, Gothamist, @angryblacklady, @annehelen, @oliverdarcy, @stonekettle, @cwarzel, TheBlaze.com, @crampell, @joyannreid, Mediaite, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Talking Points Memo
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Google News rolls out “fact check” tag for stories on web and mobile apps, starting in the US and UK — Launched today, fact check will now appear as a label among news search results alongside other labels such as opinion, local source and highly cited
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Journalism.co.uk, SocialTimes, Nieman Lab, FishbowlDC, Press Gazette, Engadget, Android Police, Fortune, @brucebartlett, Google, Glamour, The Verge, The Next Web, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, @kvox, @nxthompson, @billadairduke, 9to5Google and Poynter
Efe Kerem Sozeri / The Daily Dot:
How hacktivist group RedHack subverted the Turkish government's notorious censorship tactics in order to release a government email archive — The Turkish government blocked Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and even Github to stop leaked emails of Energy Minister, Berat Albayrak …
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@efekerem
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pandora adds iMessage extension that lets users send 30-second song samples that recipients can tap to launch artist stations based on shared track — Tucked away inside Pandora's rebranded app, launched yesterday, the company was hiding its first iMessage app, too.
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RAIN News, AppAdvice.com Latest, Radio Ink, Pandora Blog, The Daily Dot, Engadget and The Verge