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6:05 PM ET, October 16, 2016

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Mi-Ai Parrish / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Republic responds to those who harassed its staff and issued death threats after newspaper endorsed Clinton  —  What is the correct response to these threats?  Today, I offer you a few.  —  As someone who has spent a career in the business of words, it's unusual to find myself speechless.
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! shouldn't be prosecuted for covering Dakota pipeline protests because she was acting as a journalist  —  To the offending prosecutor, Ladd Erickson, who is apparently a fan  —  All Stories  —  A little over a month ago, private security guards working on behalf …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump goes beyond claiming media bias to instead blame media for a “rigged” election, adopting the Breitbartian view of institutional conspiracy  —  Republicans have complained about media bias for decades.  But Donald Trump, whose attacks on the press are escalating …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN's Jeff Zucker says he has no regrets about Trump coverage, though he says in hindsight the network aired too many early unedited campaign rallies  —  Jeff Zucker sleeps great at night.  —  The president of CNN said in a conversation at Harvard University on Friday that he has no regrets …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
The conspiracy theories Donald Trump espouses show he has fully embraced the Breitbart worldview, pushing nationalist narratives into the mainstream discourse
James Warren / Poynter:
Interview with Jamie Kalven on his 20K word, four-part, Chicago police corruption story, and why he ran it on The Intercept instead of Slate, Guardian, or CIR  —  CHICAGO — The Al Jazeera documentary crew was hanging out in a once-fire ravaged low-slung brick building on the edge of an underserved South Side neighborhood.
Discussion: @azmatzahra
Marc Herman / Columbia Journalism Review:
How IRIN, the UN's former in-house news service, remade itself as a Swiss nonprofit to cover humanitarian crises without running into conflicts of interest  —  Syrian refugees strike on September 3, 2015.  Photo by Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons  —  Three years ago …
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Profile of Univision chairman Haim Saban on his plans for an IPO and his efforts to ensure Hillary Clinton is elected president  —  Haim Saban, the billionaire chairman of Univision Communications, America's largest Spanish-language media company, flew to Jerusalem in his private jet on Sept. 29 …
Discussion: Fortune
Kari Howard / Nieman Storyboard:
How Charlotte Magazine, with a tiny staff and freelancers, produced 12+ stories, a photo essay, and more about unrest after police shot and killed a black man  —  Editor Michael Graff talks about how his small staff refused to be just “the magazine that gives you the best restaurants and places to live” …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek becomes chairman after co-founder Martin Lorentzon steps down from position to become company's vice-chairman  —  A changing of the guard is underway at Spotify, the streaming music service with 40 million paying users and over 100 million overall that competes …
Discussion: @ingridlunden and Bloomberg
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Interview with WaPo reporter David Fahrenthold, on covering the Trump Foundation, learning tax law, breaking the Access Hollywood story, and more  —  The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold on the Trump Foundation, the Access Hollywood tape, and the time the candidate called him “a nasty guy.”
Discussion: @wesleylowery
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
BitTorrent says its streaming service BitTorrent Now isn't shutting down, only one co-CEO, Robert Delamar, left the company  —  Last week, Variety published a report detailing some internal turmoil at BitTorrent: the company's CEOs had both reportedly been fired, the recently-launched BitTorrent …
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
Some celebrities are resorting to cyberbullying tactics like posting revenge porn, sharing secret phone recordings, and rallying online mobs for PR offensives  —  The Latest Celebrity Diet?  Cyberbullying  —  By AMANDA HESS  —  Secret recordings.  Revenge porn.  Sexual humiliation.
 
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Aishwarya Venugopal / Reuters:
Viacom special committee hires Morgan Stanley, Allen & Company, and LionTree LLC to advise on potential CBS merger
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
French legislature gives preliminary approval to 2% tax on ad revenue from video platforms like YouTube, in order to help finance local content
Financial Times:
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Q&A with newly named Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer, on media consolidation, long-form video content, expanding into new verticals, more
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

 
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