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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, CSPAN Washington Journal host, who spent 35-40 hours researching, preparing questions, rehearsing as 2016's substitute debate moderator — In his first-ever general election presidential debate job, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace tonight asked Hillary Clinton …
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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."
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CNNMoney:
Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon did not deny rumors of a Trump TV network when asked, replying that Trump is an “entrepreneur”
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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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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 — Barron's, the Dow Jones-owned investment and finance publication, is hardly what you'd think of as a go-to for young people.
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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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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.
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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 …
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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 18 days of the U.S. presidential election.
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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
David Bunnell, founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, and a social activist, died Tuesday in Berkeley, CA, at age 69 — The founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld was an entrepreneur who thought like a social activist. — In 1973, a former schoolteacher named David Bunnell got …
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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 — 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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