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5:25 PM ET, November 1, 2016

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Paul Barbagallo / Bloomberg:
Gannett drops its $683M bid for rival Tronc; source says deal collapsed after bankers pulled out  —  Handshake agreement said to collapse with lack of financing  —  Few other publicly traded newspaper companies available  —  Gannett Co. dropped its bid for rival Tronc Inc. …
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Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Tronc misses with Q3 revenue of $378M, down from $406M in Q3 2015; CEO Justin Dearborn says it's “unfortunate” Gannett's lenders withdrew from deal  —  Tronc unveiled its third-quarter 2016 earnings on Tuesday with revenues of $378 million, down 6.9 percent compared to $406 million in the third quarter of 2015.
Discussion: tronc, inc. and Bloomberg
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
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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
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, The Wrap and Recode
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 …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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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.
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 …
Discussion: @johnny_hansel
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 …
Discussion: ClickZ, @mhbergen, @fodor and Forbes
 
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