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8:40 PM ET, October 20, 2016

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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.
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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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 attracted 200K concurrent viewers, with pundits and pro-Trump ads  —  “If you're tired of biased, mainstream media reporting (otherwise known as Crooked Hillary's super PAC), tune into my Facebook Live broadcast."
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 …
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.
Olivia Snaije / Publishing Perspectives:
Can Dundar, exiled former editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, working to create new media outlet with colleagues to reach Turkish audience  —  The issue of censorship was at the heart of the press conference held early Wednesday morning (October 19), with Fair director Jürgen …
 
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
New Orleans-based local news site, The Lens, which launched a speakers bureau in 2014, says it earned $10K in speaker fees during 2015
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR announces expansion of internal incubator Story Lab, adding resources and planning an online system for internal and external idea pitches