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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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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
A look at how The Verge generates revenue, the technology it's built for creating and distributing ads, Hymnal and Concert, and its plans for the future — Platforms, united — The Verge turns five on November 1st, and we're in the process of refreshing our entire brand for the next five years.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
NYT Q3 earnings: print ad revenue drops 19% but digital ad revenue up 21% to $44M, 116K digital-only subs added, bringing total to 1.3M, rev down 1% to $364M — The New York Times Company reported a steep decline in print advertising revenue for the third quarter on Wednesday, adding to the newspaper industry's woes.
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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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Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
US election boosts October cable TV ratings, with CNN winning 25-54-year-olds for the first time in 15 years — The current election may be tearing America apart at the seams, but the one thing everyone seems to be unable to do is look away. The three major cable news bastions — Fox News …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Mark Burnett is continuing to threaten current and former Apprentice staff with legal action should they leak information about Trump's on-set behavior — Reality-TV kingpin Mark Burnett and his associates say that they aren't pressuring anyone over a series of damaging leaks …
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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Washington Post:
Venezuela more stringent with work visa rules, stops reporters who had previosly entered the country without work visas from entering, amid mounting turmoil — Venezuelan authorities stopped a Washington Post reporter at the Caracas airport late Monday night and denied him entry …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Q3 earnings beats estimates with revenue of $7.17B; sales at Turner, including CNN, TNT, and TBS, rise 8.8% YoY to $2.61B, HBO sales up 4.3% — Media giant being acquired by AT&T raises full-year forecast — Time Warner Inc., the owner of the Warner Bros. studio …
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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Business Insider's US site and Inc hacked by hacking group OurMine early Wed morning; BI employee may have used same password across multiple sites — Business Insider was hacked on Wednesday morning. — Attackers identifying themselves as OurMine posted and edited some stories on the US version of the website.
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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Politico, ProPublica, @hadas_gold and Sunlight Foundation Blog
James Silver / Guardian:
Interview with WaPo executive editor Martin Baron, on the paper's Access Hollywood scoop, Trumps' media blacklist, Jeff Bezos, future editorial plans, more — The Washington Post's executive editor on breaking Trump's Access Hollywood hot mic moment and the surprising positives of working beside Amazon engineers
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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