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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Chris Wallace, the first Fox News host to moderate a presidential debate, praised by peers and political pundits — Chris Wallace delivered a sterling performance as moderator of the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, maintaining order and focusing on substantive issues that matter to American voters.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Profile of Steve Scully, C-SPAN Washington Journal host, who spent 35-40 hours researching, preparing questions, rehearsing as 2016's back up debate moderator — In his first-ever general election presidential debate job, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace tonight asked Hillary Clinton …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: senior executives at AT&T and Time Warner have discussed various business strategies in recent weeks, including a possible merger — Senior executives at AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. have met in recent weeks to discuss various business strategies including a possible merger, according to people familiar with the matter.
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BuzzFeed:
Analysis of 1K+ posts from 6 partisan Facebook Pages shows that least-accurate are shared widely; 38% of right-wing, 19% of left-wing posts are false/misleading — A BuzzFeed News analysis found that three big right-wing Facebook pages published false or misleading information 38% …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Facebook Live broadcast during the final debate, which featured pundits and with pro-Trump ads, attracted 200K concurrent viewers — “If you're tired of biased, mainstream media reporting (otherwise known as Crooked Hillary's super PAC), tune into my Facebook Live broadcast."
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal finalizing deal for a second $200M investment in BuzzFeed, at a valuation of $1.7B — More money for Jonah Peretti and his video ambitions. — A year after making a major investment in BuzzFeed, NBCUniversal is doing it again.
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TechCrunch:
Facebook announces that Instant Articles can now include immersive 360 videos and photos; USA Today and Bild are first to showcase the feature — Oct 20, 2016, 2:09 pmOct 20, 2016, 3:51 pm — Facebook's Instant Articles — the format that displays publishers' content in a faster-loading …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
UNC study finds 33%+ of US papers have changed ownership since 2004, local news is beholden to investors, and a trend toward corporate consolidation — Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and E. W. Scripps are out. Digital First Media, GateHouse and Civitas are in.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NYT releases Facebook Messenger bot to cover the rest of the election, combining automatic updates with dispatches from political reporter Nicholas Confessore — The New York Times on Wednesday released a Facebook Messenger bot to cover the last 19 days of the U.S. presidential election.
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USA Today:
USA Today Network launches VRtually There, a weekly, branded virtual reality news program, available via app and YouTube — USA TODAY NETWORK today announced the release of its weekly virtual reality news show, ‘VRtually There’ - the first-ever branded news experience exclusively in partnership …
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Wall Street Journal:
GroupM estimates global spending on newspaper print ads to decline 8.7% to $52.6B in 2016, the biggest drop since the recession; publishers forced to weigh cuts — With global newspaper print advertising on pace for worst decline since recession, publishers cut costs and restructure
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
CNN's pro-Trump contributors introduce false information into the network's programs, clouding the outlet's own reporting — The consensus headline from the third and final presidential debate was Republican candidate Donald Trump's refusal to commit to accepting the 2016 election results.
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