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Rob Goldman / Facebook:
Facebook's update on ad transparency: tests start in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, will show all ads running, archive US election ads, more — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Women of the campaign press corps say Mark Halperin's unsavory behavior was an “open secret”, dating from the mid-1990s — Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story.
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The Daily Beast:
Penguin Press announces it is canceling plans to publish book Mark Halperin was co-authoring on 2016 election — Penguin Press announced on Thursday that it was dropping Mark Halperin's new book amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment against the journalist and author.
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Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO drops miniseries about the 2016 election based on Mark Halperin's planned book after sexual harassment claims
HBO drops miniseries about the 2016 election based on Mark Halperin's planned book after sexual harassment claims
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Five women accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was at ABC News; Halperin apologizes
Five women accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was at ABC News; Halperin apologizes
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
BuzzFeed's Product Labs offers marketing to creators of products or services in exchange for a cut of net sales, probably 10-20% — You make the ShamWow, they'll make the ad. — BuzzFeed makes money selling ads. It has started making money selling its own gadgets.
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
In Q3, Amazon reports 58% rise to $1.12B YoY in “other” revenue, composed mostly of ad sales; CFO says ads help site visitors make informed decisions — Calling all brand marketers: We're opening up a few more complimentary spots to join the Digiday Marketing Summit in the Bahamas in December.
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Business Wire:
Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2017.
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Clio Chang / Splinter:
The open sexual harassment by The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier, literary editor for over 30 years, raises questions about accountability — On Tuesday night, The New York Times, Politico, and The Atlantic all published stories detailing numerous sexual harassment allegations against Leon Wieseltier …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula — One of the most confusing efforts to fund journalism in recent memory is inching closer to reality.
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Anya Schiffrin / Columbia Journalism Review:
How European regulators are weighing control of misinformation and free speech, hampered by a lack of consensus, research, public data from Facebook and Google — This month, a new law against hate speech will go into effect in Germany, fining Facebook, Twitter, YouTube …
Shashidhar KJ / MediaNama:
Sources: HuffPost decides not to renew 3-year partnership with Times of India Group; HuffPost to relaunch in India — HuffPost and the Times of India Group have ended their partnership, multiple, reliable sources, including current and former employees, have confirmed to MediaNama.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
German advertising trade groups propose European chapter of the Coalition for Better Ads that would enable more local control of European digital media markets — Cracks are appearing in the Coalition for Better Ads as German members have started demanding more of a voice in the discussions.
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
The Turtles lose at Florida's Supreme Court as the music group sought state common-law copyright protection for its pre-1972 songs — Do states want copyright to sprawl even further? Two have said “no.” — Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles have lost a major legal battle in their quest …
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RT:
Russia Today shares details of 2016 advertising pitch from Twitter to promote RT's US election coverage — Twitter pushed RT for a large ad buy for the 2016 US election, but the channel declined the offer. — Trends — At the end of September, Twitter published a report titled 'Russian interference …
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Twitter:
Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research
Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research
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