Mediagazer: Thomson Reuters plans to cut 2K jobs, or 4% of workforce but none from newsrooms, as it beats targets with Q3 net income of $286M, down from $293M in Q3 2015 (Jessica Toonkel/Reuters)

4:00 PM ET, November 1, 2016

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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:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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David Lieberman / Deadline:
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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 …

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Lauren Johnson / Adweek:

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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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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:

Thomson Reuters plans to cut 2K jobs, or 4% of workforce but none from newsrooms, as it beats targets with Q3 net income of $286M, down from $293M in Q3 2015 — Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.N) (TRI.TO) third-quarter earnings beat analyst expectations on Tuesday and the company said it would cut jobs worldwide …

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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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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

The AP is experimenting with machine learning to automate the process of converting print stories to broadcast format — The experiment is part of a larger effort by the news agency to incorporate automation into its journalism. — On average, when an AP sportswriter covers a game …

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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 …

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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 …

Joshua Mitnick / Los Angeles Times:
Israeli newspaper columnist and TV commentator Ari Shavit resigns from Haaretz and Channel 10 after sexual harassment accusations

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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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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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New York Times:

Slate and The New Yorker remove Outbrain and Taboola from their websites as publishers rethink the way content ads affect their brands — You see them everywhere, and maybe, sometimes, you click: those rows of links under web articles, often augmented with eye-catching photos …