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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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN still needs to audit its relationship with political commentators, who flood its payroll, crowding out honesty and journalism — As a matter of course, CNN is careful about providing details on the bios of its guests and its paid political commentators.
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, New Urban Legends and iMediaEthics
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
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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.
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tronc, inc. and Bloomberg
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
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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Variety, Hulu, Forbes, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, The Wrap, Recode and 9to5Mac
Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:
YouTube strikes deal with German royalty-collection group Gema, ending seven years of legal battles and unblocking thousands of music videos in the country — @StefanNicolaBBG More stories by Stefan Nicola — Video service to pay licensing fees for clips shown in Germany
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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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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.
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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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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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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