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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Source: CNN Chief Jeff Zucker blasts Donna Brazile in Tuesday editorial call, describing her interactions with Clinton campaign as “unethical” and “disgusting” — Network boss has “no tolerance” for tipping off a campaign with debate questions.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donna Brazile resigns from CNN, after leaked emails show she shared questions with Clinton campaign before a debate and town hall during Democratic primary — CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing that former contributor and interim Democratic National Committee …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
ProPublica adopts Politwoops and four other Sunlight Labs projects using open government data; several other Sunlight projects are headed to other organizations — Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians' deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to account, has a new parent …
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ProPublica, Sunlight Foundation Blog and Politico
Paul Barbagallo / Bloomberg:
Source: Gannett forced to drop bid for Tronc as it was unable to obtain financing for the transaction, after agreeing to buy for $18.75 a share in early Oct — Handshake agreement said to collapse with lack of financing — Few other publicly traded newspaper companies available
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu signs deals with Disney and 21st Century Fox for its new streaming service, which is set to debut early 2017, adding more than 35 networks including ESPN — Hulu officially announced new deals with two of its parents — 21st Century Fox and the Walt Disney Company …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Discovery Communications and MLB's BAMTech form streaming video technology provider, BAMTech Europe, to cater to the continent's broadcasters and OTT providers — Discovery Communications has linked arms with Major League Baseball's BAMTech in a pact under which they are forming BAMTech Europe …
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Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti says Tasty reaches more people than BuzzFeed site alone, claims BuzzFeed would be much bigger if comScore tracked its mobile stats — Ten years ago, BuzzFeed pioneered viral news and branded content with popular listicles and quizzes.
Debra Kamin / Variety:
HBO declines to comment on whether documentary by Ari Shavit, Israeli journalist accused of sexual assault, will go forward but says it's in post-production — HBO is staying tight-lipped on the status of a documentary project from “My Promised Land” author Ari Shavit …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Morale is low at WSJ as next week's Q1 earnings are expected to show plummeting ad revenues, management memos talk of “restructuring”, and staff fear more cuts — Big cuts and big change loom for a paper that seemed, not long ago, almost immune
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Many publishers say an AMP pageview generates half the revenue as a pageview on their full mobile website due to reliance on standardized banner ad units — Some publishers aren't generating as much ad revenue as they had hoped — Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
The New York Times partners with Samsung to launch The Daily 360, a daily 360 degree video produced by Times journalists, using Samsung Gear 360 cameras — The New York Times is teaming up with Samsung to launch a new immersive 360-degree video journalism project.
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Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, who donated $250 to Clinton's campaign, reflects on Fox News' allure during the current election season — This year, there was no better view of the meteor hitting the Republican Party in real time. — Full disclosure: late one night, while watching Fox News …
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Pinterest makes Instapaper's premium features free, previously $3/month; features include full text search on all articles, speed reading, text-to-speech, more — Nearly three months after being acquired by Pinterest, Instapaper is making some changes that will impact its users.
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