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7:40 AM ET, November 11, 2017

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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Source: Rupert Murdoch offered to buy CNN during two conversations with AT&T's Randall Stephenson; another source denies Murdoch wants to own the network  —  Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Some Time Warner executives think Rupert Murdoch privately encouraged Trump to halt AT&T's effort to take over Time Warner  —  Everyone knows the president hates CNN—but Trump's Fox News ally also has multiple bones to pick with the AT&T-Time Warner deal.
Associated Press:
Louis C.K. Says Sexual Misconduct Allegations Are True  —  NEW YORK — Comedian Louis C.K. says the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are true.  —  The comedian also issued a statement a day after The New York Times detailed five women's allegations of sexual misconduct by C.K. …
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Variety:
Release of Louis C.K.'s movie, “I Love You, Daddy”, is scrapped by The Orchard after allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian  —  The release of Louis C.K.'s new film “I Love You, Daddy” has been scrapped in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations levied against the comedian.
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
HBO drops Louis C.K. from November 18 special show, Night of Too Many Stars, and removes his past projects from its on-demand services
New York Times:
Five women accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct; premiere of his new movie was canceled, along with appearance on Late Show with Colbert
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Since 2010, the Drudge Report has linked to Infowars, RT, and Sputnik more than 1,000 times  —  By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge's link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States.
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Julia Angwin / ProPublica:
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with Twitter bots and “email bombs” that forced the closure of reporters' email accounts  —  It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax.  After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story …
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
NYT sues woman for posing as its reporter for several years, during which she asked questions at Brookings events and interviewed the Turkish ambassador  —  She's fake news!  —  The New York Times sued a Queens woman Thursday, saying she posed as one of its reporters for at least two years.
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Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Writer claims Jann Wenner offered him writing assignments in exchange for sex in 2005, Wenner denies any quid pro quo  —  Ben Ryan says the offer was made in the publisher's Upper West Side townhouse on August 11, 2005.  “There was that moment where it's like time stood still,” he recalled.
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Guardian digital editor Ian Prior and two other journalists are absent from work due to investigations into harassment claims  —  Sources have told BuzzFeed News that digital editor Ian Prior has been suspended pending an investigation by management.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Playboy sues Boing Boing for a 2016 post that linked to a collection of centerfold pictures on Imgur and YouTube, which has since been taken down  —  Playboy apparently has lawyers with itchy trigger fingers.  As first spotted by Law360, Playboy Entertainment Group has sued the BoingBoing …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao  —  With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao  —  Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK's National Union of Journalists is pursuing equal pay for 100+ female members at the BBC; NUJ survey says 8 out 10 women members believe pay disparity exists
CHINAdaily:
Beijing Bytedance Technology Co. to invest $50M in Cheetah Mobile's Live.me streaming service and buy Cheetah Mobile's news aggregator News Republic for $86.6M
Katherine Cowdrey / The Bookseller:
BBC releases its first interactive audio story, The Inspection Chamber, on Amazon Echo; listeners insert themselves in the story and steer the plot via voice
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Washington Post:
Editor says Russian news outlet RT will comply with US DoJ and register as foreign agent; Russian embassy suggests US news orgs may face retaliation in Russia
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sean Parker says social media networks like Facebook exploit a vulnerability in human psychology and wonders about effects on productivity and children
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney misses with Q4 net income of $1.75B, down 1% YoY, on $12.78B in revenue, down 2.8% YoY and below $13.2B estimated
 

 
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Reuters:
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