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Sharon Churcher / RADAR:
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly claims former boss Roger Ailes sexually harassed her in new memoir to be released Nov. 15 — The network's prize anchor drops a bombshell amid contract talks. Is she ready to go? — Fox News star Megyn Kelly has unveiled explosive new charges against the network's founder …
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Profile of Tronc chairman Michael Ferro, who is now tasked with saving the company after Gannett dropped its $683M bid and shares tumbled — In April 2012, Lupe Fiasco was on tour in Detroit when he got a phone call from a revved-up businessman named Michael Ferro.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast's Wired Media Group is launching the Emerging Tech Council, a $4K/year membership program for executives who want to stay ahead of tech trends — In the quest for new sources of revenue, publishers have been launching subscription programs and events series.
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Nick Kalman / Fox News:
Casting notice goes out for new “up-and-coming” conservative news network, the timing of which suggests Trump TV, but no specific employer is identified — Donald Trump denies he is interested in launching a new conservative news venture, but somebody sure is.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Pew report: 59% of US adults who feel highly attached to their local communities follow local news closely, as do 52% of those who always vote — Know your neighbors? You also probably know something about what's going on down at city hall. — Clinton vs. Trump (vs. Johnson vs. Stein vs. McMullin? …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT deputy politics editor Paul Volpe will join Politico next month as executive editor; current executive editor Peter Canellos will become editor-at-large — Big news on the homefront — Peter Canellos is taking on an investigate role and Paul Volpe is joining POLITICO from the New York Times.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Growth at Google and Facebook makes up all of the digital ad growth in 2016, some analysts say, as other companies facing shrinking shares — Uh-oh! — It's finally happening: Advertisers have started moving big chunks of their budgets from traditional media to the internet, and digital advertising is booming.
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Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Kottke.org announces annual memberships starting at $30/year to diversify revenue sources and focus on dedicated readers — If you are a regular reader and appreciate what I do here, please support kottke.org by purchasing an annual membership. It only takes a minute …
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: YouTube Red has 1.5M subscribers with 1M signed up on a trial basis, underscoring the struggle of getting users to pay for a previously free service — YouTube Red only has 1.5 million paying subscribers as of late summer — When YouTube Red launched a year ago …
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
IAB: search advertising on desktop saw its first-ever decline, falling 12% to $8.9B in first half of 2016, but mobile search advertising grew 105% to $7.4B — Digital advertising revenue surged to a new high of $32.7 billion for the first half of 2016, up 19% from last year's record $27.5 billion …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook's mobile ad business brought in $5.7B in Q3 2016, representing 84% of all the company's ad revenue — Facebook beat Q3 earnings estimates Wednesday. — Facebook delivered for Wall Street again — and its mobile ad business is driving the bus. — The social giant beat earnings …
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Department of Justice sues DirecTV and its owner, AT&T, claiming collusion with competitors during carriage talks for Los Angeles Dodgers games — Dodgers games blacked out after pay-TV companies colluded, DOJ lawsuit says. — The Department of Justice today sued DirecTV and its owner …
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