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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Sources: AT&T reaches agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85B — AT&T Inc (T.N) has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for a blockbuster deal that would give the telecom company control …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Why AT&T would want to buy Time Warner: content packaged with data connections, a shrinking DirecTV business, and competition with Verizon, Facebook, and Google — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is busy, so we'll answer for him. — More than 16 years ago, AOL bought Time Warner for $160 billion …
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Dyn says Friday's DDoS attack on its DNS service came from tens of millions of IPs, and involved the Mirai botnet of IoT devices — Friday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook plans to show more images and stories with graphic content, including violence and nudity, if they're “newsworthy, significant or of public interest” — Facebook will soon display more graphic content including violence and nudity that would normally violate its policies …
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook staff wanted to block some Trump posts as hate speech, like one on banning Muslim immigrants; Zuckerberg chose to keep them — Ruling by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to keep presidential candidate's posts spurred heated internal debates — Some of Republican presidential candidate …
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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 …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Internal memo: WSJ offers buyouts to all news employees globally in order to reduce layoffs — Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:
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TechCrunch:
Facebook announces that Instant Articles can now include immersive 360 videos and photos; USA Today and Bild are first to showcase the feature — Oct 20, 2016, 2:09 pmOct 20, 2016, 3:51 pm — Facebook's Instant Articles — the format that displays publishers' content in a faster-loading …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Since launching desktop notifications last month, WaPo has gotten 200K signups for its Chrome alerts and Mic says 10% of Chrome and Safari users have opted in — Thanks to Facebook's ever-shifting algorithm, publishers are scrambling to build direct audience connections through e-mail newsletters …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
WAN-IFRA 2016 online commenting report: 82% of new sites allow commenting, 65% of organizations say their journalists are subject to online trolling — One news site after another has given up on commenting altogether in the past year. (Meanwhile, comments are still coming in on our year-old roundup …
Susan Krashinsky / Globe and Mail:
Canada's Postmedia announces 20% savings target on salary costs through buyouts and layoffs as its print ad sales fall over 20% in fourth quarter — In the past year, Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has shed the equivalent of 800 full-time jobs. On Thursday, the company said the job losses will deepen …
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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 …
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Former News of the World reporter Mazher Mahmood sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for tampering with evidence in collapsed Tulisa Contostavlos drugs trial
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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.
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