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The Daily Beast:
Trump campaign manager, digital director, and son retweeted Russian-linked @TEN_GOP Twitter account near election; Michael Flynn Jr. retweeted account 34 times — Some of the Trump campaign's most prominent names and supporters, including Trump's campaign manager, digital director and son …
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Mediaite, Washington Post and @selectedwisdom
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP — The account was one of hundreds created by Russia's Internet Research Agency and drew 136,000 followers by tweeting divisive messages …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy — In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Advertisers are drifting towards streaming services like Amazon and Netflix at the urging of their clients, as viewers shift eyeballs and TV ratings dwindle — When Ben Watkins wanted to buoy the quality of his series “Hand of God,” he turned to what might be an unlikely partner: an online compendium of real-estate data.
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Adweek, Detroit News, The New York Observer and Axios
Alec Saslow / MapLight:
MapLight recommends more digital political ad rules: requiring platforms to report ad buys, marking ads clearly, and more disclosure from political groups — Following revelations exposing online advertising surrounding the 2016 election linked to a Russian propaganda company …
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McClatchy:
McClatchy reports Q3 adjusted net loss of $5.9M on revenue of $212.6M, down 9.4% YoY; total ad revenue was $115.3M, down 13.4% YoY — McClatchy (NYSE American-MNI) recorded after-tax non-cash charges of $230.9 million in the third quarter of 2017, leading to a quarterly net loss of $238.9 million, or $31.28 per share.
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
AG Jeff Sessions says he won't “make a blanket commitment” not to jail journalists, says DoJ tries to find alternatives to “directly confronting a media person” — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday that he reserves the right to jail journalists, “if we have to.”
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Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, The Hill, @pierre, @aliwatkins, Fortune and The Daily Caller
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst agrees to acquire Rodale Inc., publisher of Men's Health and Runner's World; source says price was less than $225M — Deal is expected to close in early 2018 following government approval — Hearst has agreed to purchase Rodale Inc., the family-owned publisher …
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Folio, Adweek and Rodale Inc
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
VidAngel, which filters offensive content from movies, files for Chapter 11 after suit from Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, won't shut down — VidAngel, the company that offered its users “clean” versions of existing movies, said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Home Media Magazine, Forbes, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable
Hollywood Reporter:
Details emerge about Amazon Studios ex-chief Roy Price's crude talk and pricey Weinstein deals, with little support offered for female-led Big Little Lies — Days after THR published producer Isa Hackett's sexual harassment claims, the head of the streaming giant steps down.
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HuffPost:
Ex-Variety staffers call former editor-in-chief Peter Bart one of Harvey Weinstein's greatest protectors, a charge Bart denies
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Deadline, Variety, The Wrap, New York Times, Ad Age, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The A.V. Club, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Variety, Variety and Stratechery
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
CNN wins first-of-its-kind waiver from FAA to fly drones over crowds regardless of population density, at altitudes of up to 150 feet — CNN has won an interesting waiver regarding its commercial drone operating license with the FAA - an exemption that allows it to fly its Vantage Robotics Snap drone …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Time's Michael Duffy, deputy managing editor and editorial director of parent company Time Inc., is leaving company after 32 years — A three-decade, 50-cover-story vet goes over the side as a new digital regime consolidates: “With Duffy gone, the vestiges of what Time used to be go with him,” said a former colleague.
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