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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.
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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.
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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 …
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@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 …
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@facttank, New York Magazine and Washington Post
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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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 — It's an exclusive deal, but publishers can still sell their own. — Apple is bringing in help to boost its News app.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist axed its Pinterest and Tumblr accounts in August, focusing on LinkedIn to build brand awareness rather than drive traffic — In a platform world, publishers face tough decisions on where to place their resources. In August, The Economist faced this head on and axed …
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@poynter, @dbreger, @digiday and @janebsinger