Mediagazer: New “digital fixers” guide reporters into relevant private chat rooms on apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Weibo, Wickr, and Telegram (Nausicaa Renner/Columbia Journalism …)

5:10 AM ET, November 9, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Source: Huffington Post ends appending an editor's note to all Trump stories, calling him a liar, racist, and a xenophobe — The Huffington Post's editor's note calling Donald Trump as a “racist” and “xenophobe” is no more, a source in the newsroom tells POLITICO.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

PlayStation Vue will lose Viacom channels on November 11, will add BBC America and NBA TV on Wednesday, and Vice plus CBS and FOX broadcast stations soon — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service has just hit a bit of a roadblock in terms of its content lineup.

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Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:

New “digital fixers” guide reporters into relevant private chat rooms on apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Weibo, Wickr, and Telegram — When An Xiao Mina traveled to Shenzhen, China, to do research on selfie stick production, she needed a way to know where people were talking.

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Business Insider drops comments from articles — Business Insider has joined other websites in dropping the comments function at the end of its articles. — Mario Ruiz, a spokesman for the business news website, told Talking Biz News: … Other business and financial news sites …

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Anonymous reactions from 15 reporters who covered Trump on campaign trail: hyperbole, political messiness, visceral voter anxiety, and “the story of the decade” — The defining image of the Trump campaign is the Trump rally: unpredictable, raucous, filled to capacity.

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Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune:

How Chicago Tribune documented the Cubs' win visually: four strategically placed photographers in ballpark using cameras with Ethernet lines and FTP — Chicago Tribune pages from when the Cubs clinched the NLCS, the World Series, and the Grant Park victory rally. — Tribune photojournalist

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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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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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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.

Christine Wang / CNBC:

Digital accounted for 24% of WSJ's segment revenues in Q1, up 4% YoY, with digital subscriptions up 18% to 967K — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. reported fiscal first-quarter results Monday afternoon that were roughly in line with analyst estimates. — The company posted an adjusted loss …

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Associated Press:

Mark Cuban says he banned two ESPN writers from Mavericks games in protest of 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 …

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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 …

Discussion: Fortune, FishbowlDC, @facttank, New York Magazine and Washington Post

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 …