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3:20 PM ET, October 20, 2016

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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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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."
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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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% …
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 …
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  —  Where do new radio shows and podcasts come from?  For an organization as big as NPR, that's a complicated question.
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 …
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  —  Bauer Media Group is relaunching FHM as an online-only brand after the magazine shut up shop last year …
Discussion: @goodflo and PR Newswire
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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  —  If you're good at something, the saying goes, never do it for free.  —  It's advice that The Lens has taken to heart.
 
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