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2:20 PM ET, October 21, 2016

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William Turton / Gizmodo:
DNS provider Dyn says it's investigating another attack after reports of widespread outages across popular sites, including Twitter, CNN, Spotify, and Reddit  —  Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning.
Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:
Sources: AT&T in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner; announcement could come as early as Monday  —  AT&T Inc (T.N) is in advanced talks to acquire media conglomerate Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), and a deal could come as early as this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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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.
Julia Angwin / ProPublica:
Google updated its privacy policy this summer, letting Google combine personal info from Gmail and other tools with DoubleClick browsing data to target ads  —  When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's …
Discussion: Beyond Search
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% …
Telegraph:
Former News of the World reporter Mazher Mahmood sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for tampering with evidence in collapsed Tulisa Contostavlos drugs trial  —  Mazher Mahmood, the undercover reporter known as the Fake Sheikh, has been jailed for 15 months for tampering with evidence …
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Jake Kanter / Business Insider:   News UK terminates the employment of Mazher Mahmood after his arrest, will defend any civil claims in relation to his previous work
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.
Discussion: @poynter and @apradhan1968
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Time Out to pay up to $2.94M for Yplan, the London-based event ticketing startup that had raised $37.5M  —  Event ticketing startup YPlan has been acquired by travel publication Time Out in a deal worth £1.6 million ($1.96 million), a figure that will rise to £2.4 million …
 
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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
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
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and FishbowlNY
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
USA Today:
USA Today Network launches VRtually There, a weekly, branded virtual reality news program, available via app and YouTube
Discussion: AdExchanger, Fortune and @rafat
 Earlier Picks: 
Max Willens / Digiday:
Barron's new digital offshoot Barron's Next hopes to interest millennials in ecomonics and investing with quick analysis, video, and a custom built stock index
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Jessica Goodfellow / The Drum:
Bauer Xcel Media relaunches FHM online after magazine ended publication last year, positions it between the “too clickbait” LadBible, and “too niche” GQ