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5:10 PM ET, November 6, 2017

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 Top News: 
David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney  —  21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Walt Disney Co., leaving behind a media company tightly focused on news and sports, according to people familiar with the situation.
James Bridle:
A look at bot-made YouTube videos for kids, which deliberately target young children with traumatic imagery  —  As someone who grew up on the internet, I credit it as one of the most important influences on who I am today.  I had a computer with internet access in my bedroom from the age of 13.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
ICIJ releases Paradise Papers, with 95 media partners exploring 13.4M leaked files on offshore dealings, obtained by Süddeutsche Zeitung  —  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists today releases The Paradise Papers, a global investigation that reveals the offshore activities …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge:
ACLU defends blogger who linked Taylor Swift with white supremacy after Swift's lawyers demanded removal and retraction of September blog post  —  Swift's lawyers demanded the article be taken down  —  The ACLU of Northern California issued a press release today saying it intends to defend …
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: former Amazon Studios chairman Roy Price sexually harassed multiple women, including actresses, faced little discipline over incident with Isa Hackett  —  Claims that go beyond previous reports simmered inside the e-commerce giant's Hollywood unit  —  Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .80% …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A year into Trump era, reporters have produced great accountability journalism, but relentless news cycles have left people exhausted and mistrustful of media  —  In the year since Donald Trump was elected president, the national news media has congratulated itself on a new golden age of accountability journalism.
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Rosamund Urwin / London Evening Standard:
Female journalists in the UK have set up The Second Source, a network to tackle sexual harassment in the media  —  Rosamund Urwin explains how a Twitter message sparked a movement  —  In just three weeks a single message has morphed into a movement.  Back in mid-October I contacted …
Henry Chu / Variety:
British regulator Ofcom says Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson's shows breached UK's broadcasting code by breaching impartiality rules  —  Findings that Fox News breached fairness rules come as Fox-Sky takeover bid remains up in the air  —  British media regulator Ofcom has concluded …
Discussion: Press Gazette and The Wrap
Business Insider:
Vox Media CEO and chief legal officer say they regret how Lockhart Steele investigation was handled  —  Vox Media acknowledged that it should have more vigorously investigated internal allegations of sexual harassment against its former editorial director Lockhart Steele.
 
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Liam Corcoran / Nieman Lab:
A look at quarterly print magazine The Bristol Cable, with a news staff of five and about 1,800 members paying £3/month for events and input into news coverage
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Al Jazeera to launch podcast network, Jetty, later in November with hybrid interview-narrative show Closer Than They Appear, more shows in early 2018
Discussion: @jbenton
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ 2017 Global Impunity Index: 12 countries account for nearly 80% of unsolved murders of journalists; 93% of murder victims are local reporters
 Earlier Picks: 
The Daily Beast:
How “Jenna Abrams”, a creation of Russia's Internet Research Agency, built ~70K Twitter followers and got quoted in numerous news outlets since 2014
Discussion: Miami New Times
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
A look at Bild's framework to evaluate its partnerships with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat
Julie Schwietert Collazo / Columbia Journalism Review:
Two Puerto Rican newspapers cut 59 staff after hurricane while parent company expands real estate portfolio in the US and Latin America
Discussion: Forbes