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11:25 AM ET, October 21, 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.
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  —  Just two weeks ago, News UK was refusing to comment on the employment status of investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood.  —  But now the so-called …
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.
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 …
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% …
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.
Sonya Sorich / Sacramento Business Journal:
McClatchy Q2 revenue falls to $242.2M, down from $262.4M in same quarter of 2015; ad revenue down 11% year over year, print ad revenue down 16.6%  —  The McClatchy Co., publisher of the Sacramento Bee, reported a $1.5 million loss for the second quarter, excluding some expenses, as newspaper advertising revenue continued to decline.
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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