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2:04 PM ET, November 1, 2016

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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
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
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 and The Wrap
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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David Lieberman / Deadline:
Discovery reports Q3 earnings with net income of $219M, down 21.5% YoY, on revenues of $1.56B and EPS of $0.36, falling below Wall Street expectations  —  Discovery Communications' Q3 earnings, out this morning, fell short of Wall Street expectations which the company said was partly due …
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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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, @fodor, @mhbergen and Forbes
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.
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.
Discussion: TechCrunch and SocialTimes
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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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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