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12:30 PM ET, November 8, 2016

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Behind the scenes at CBS, CNN, Fox, and ABC as networks prepare for public scrutiny amid intense media distrust on election night  —  Fox News's elections guru will play his cello on Tuesday morning, “to clear my head and get ready to do math.”  CNN is staging more than a dozen rehearsals with a 25-person on-air team.
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Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
Remembering the frenzy in sales after Obama's win in 2008, newspapers are preparing for Wednesday by printing extra copies, setting up temporary retail stands  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Print newspapers may be disappearing like the home telephone, but not after Election Day.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Los Angeles Times
Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
Reflecting on a new sense of decency, Glenn Beck says he regrets calling Obama racist and is scared of the alt-right, calls Trump “unhinged”, and more  —  After the pundit watched Michelle Obama's speech about Trump's treatment of women, he rethought some things.
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Digital accounted for 24% of WSJ's segment revenues in Q1, up 4% YoY, with digital subscriptions up 18% to 967K  —  Earnings are out for News Corp. CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports the details.  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. reported fiscal first-quarter results Monday afternoon that were roughly in line with analyst estimates.
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Narottam Medhora / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q1 2017 revenue of $1.97B, down from $2.01B a year ago, with revenue at news and information division falling 5.3% YoY to $1.22B  —  News Corp (NWSA.O), the owner of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and book publisher HarperCollins, reported a quarterly loss …
Discussion: @joepompeo and CNBC
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew: social media has caused 20% of users to change stance on political issues and 17% to change view on specific candidates  —  Politics on social media - as in real life - isn't always pretty.  In an election season marked by partisan animosity, a recent Pew Research Center report found …
Associated Press:
Mark Cuban says he banned two ESPN writers from Mavericks games in protest at the Associated Press' partnership with Automated Insights; ESPN uses AP copy  —  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says his decision to revoke the credentials of two ESPN writers who cover his team …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner's Turner International is launching a digital ventures and innovation unit led by Aksel van der Wal, formerly CFO  —  Trey Turner will become CFO, succeeding Aksel van der Wal, who will run the new unit and will be “charged with developing new digital direct-to-consumer businesses,” among other things.
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Fox's Chris Wallace, who earned high praise for his debate moderation and whose Sunday show has since scored its highest ratings in 13 years  —  Chris Wallace was worried.  It was October 18, and the next evening, in front of more than 70 million viewers, the veteran newsman …
Discussion: @bypetevernon
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Liberty Media reports Q3 earnings of $169M, up from $41M a year ago, with revenue rising 7.9% to $1.39B  —  The company controlled by John Malone posts its latest financials.  —  Liberty Media on Tuesday posted improved third-quarter financials.  —  The company reported quarterly earnings …
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Jury awards $3M to former UVA dean Nicole Eramo in Rolling Stone defamation case; journalist to pay $2M, magazine to pay $1M, less than original $7.5M sought  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal jury has awarded $3 million in damages to a former University of Virginia associate dean after finding …
 
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Roundup of 16 breakout media stars who drove the 2016 political narrative, including WaPo's David Fahrenthold, CBS News' Sopan Deb, and NBC's Katy Tur
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Comcast's NBCUniversal will handle ad sales for Apple News in exclusive deal starting in January; Apple says Apple News now has over 70M unique users
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
WaPo reporter Ben Terris recounts witnessing ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbing reporter Michelle Fields and examines campaign's gaslighting
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Facebook's denial that it's a media company allows it to avoid taking responsibility for bad editorial decisions, like trending fake news stories that go viral
 

 
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

 
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