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12:40 PM ET, October 24, 2016

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
The New York Times is buying online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam, for more than $30M  —  Brian Lam sells his online consumer guide to the paper of record.  —  The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
If Trump loses, news organizations should break their ratings-driven habit of giving him heavy coverage  —  In the final pages of Richard Ben Cramer's seminal book about presidential politics, “What It Takes,” Michael Dukakis looks around in wonderment at the scene outside his Massachusetts home less …
James Ball / BuzzFeed:
How WikiLeaks and Assange haven't changed, even though they're now darlings of the alt-right instead of the left  —  The Wikileaks founder is out to settle a score with Hillary Clinton and to reassert himself as a player on the world stage, says BuzzFeed News special correspondent James Ball, who worked for Assange at Wikileaks.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
MTV President Sean Atkins steps down after little over a year in the role, as the channel failed to reverse trend of downward ratings  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sean Atkins is stepping down as president of MTV a little more than a year after joining the network.  I've learned that Atkins opted to leave …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Business Insider launches Markets Insider, a markets data and news site with a global focus, powered by data from Finanzen.net, Axel Springer's finance portal  —  The publisher's relationship with the German media conglomerate is growing closer  —  Business Insider's partnership …
Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling gets daily talk show on Breitbart.com, starting Monday, broadcasting weekdays from 9am-11am ET  —  The pitching hero of the 2004 Red Sox World Series championship season told Breitbart News: Sunday Edition he launches his daily Breitbart.com talk show Monday.
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Newsroom memo: Gannett to lay off another 2% of its workforce, about 350 or more positions in total  —  Layoffs come ahead of long-simmering Tronc deal  —  Gannett, the largest U.S newspaper company, is cutting another two percent of its workforce.  That cut, which should total about 350 …
Discussion: The Wrap and Newsonomics
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Resistance from Time Warner execs like Jeff Bewkes, head of HBO at the time, doomed the AOL merger, which raises questions about the prospects of the AT&T deal  —  The 2000 merger with AOL made Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes nauseated, so what's different now?  —  In the end, I guess you could finally say Steve Case was right.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says it plans to raise $800M in debt, bringing total long-term debt to $3B, says it will use the new debt for general corporate purposes  —  Netflix said it plans to raise $800 million through a new debt offering, which would bring its long-term debt load to more than $3 billion.
Discussion: Forbes and VentureBeat
Variety:
Film fan site Film School Rejects acquires competitor One.Perfect.Shot for undisclosed sum; One.Perfect.Shot. founder Geoff Todd joins FSR as an editor-at-large  —  Film School Rejects has purchased One.Perfect.Shot., Variety has learned.  —  The two popular film fan sites will merge, with the migration expected to begin on Thursday.
Discussion: @oneperfectshot and @hperryhorton
Politico:
In Washington, AT&T-Time Warner deal could struggle to gain regulatory approval as both Trump and Clinton campaigns and congressional lawmakers express concern  —  An ambitious bid by AT&T to buy Time Warner could face major political obstacles in merger-wary Washington …
Discussion: Washington Post and Consumerist
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom to test incorporating live streams from viewers into TV programs, is expected to debut the new tech in a new show on MTV Music in Australia in 2017  —  Viewers used to chant “I want my MTV!”  In 2017, they may just be able to help create their MTV.  —  The network's owner, Viacom …
 
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Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Interview with Tim Wu about his new book The Attention Merchants, the origins of modern advertising, and the effects of ads on journalism
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The Information planning to add student subscriptions for $200/year and invite-only professional investor subscriptions for $10K/year
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Fusion employees say executives held meetings in four offices discouraging unionization
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
A look at The Incline, Jim Brady's new local digital news operation in Pittsburgh and cross-state cousin to Philadelphia's Billy Penn