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2:15 PM ET, November 13, 2017

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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment  —  A “Lord of the Rings” TV series is moving forward at Amazon with the streaming service giving the series a multi-season production commitment, Amazon announced Monday.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bannon bashed outlets like Washington Post for not reporting from places like Alabama, and now claims conspiracy after WaPo's deep dive on Alabama's Roy Moore  —  Breitbart boss Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday night ripped The Post.  “The Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
At least five advertisers back away from Fox News' Hannity following his coverage of allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore  —  - At least five companies said over the weekend that they will no longer advertise their products during Fox News' “Hannity.”
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Sources: Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported version of its Prime video streaming service and is considering giving content creators their own channels  —  Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported complement to its Prime streaming video service, according to people familiar with its plans.
Erin Nyren / Variety:
New York Times Books Editor Radhika Jones has been named the next editor of Vanity Fair  —  UPDATED: New York Times books editor Radhika Jones has been named the next editor of Vanity Fair, the company officially annouced on Monday.  —  Jones will succeed Graydon Carter …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Liz Smith, who chronicled the lives of the rich, famous, and beautiful for over three decades in tabloid gossip columns, dies at 94  —  Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Journalists at news orgs partnering with Facebook say its fact-checking tools have failed, and it hasn't disclosed data on efforts to stop misinformation spread  —  Journalists fighting spread of fake news raise concerns over possible conflicts of interest and say site has refused to disclose needed data
Discussion: Mashable and Gizmodo
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
As part of a broader effort to diversify its revenue streams outside of streaming, Spotify is now selling beauty products through its partnership with Merchbar  —  Spotify, the $16 billion digital music “startup” that is hotly tipped for an IPO, continues to lay the groundwork to diversify its platform beyond basic streaming.
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
ESPN is debuting a reimagined version of SportsCenter on Snapchat, with two episodes planned for each week day and one on Saturday and Sunday  —  ESPN is bringing “SportsCenter” to Snapchat.  —  A reimagined version of the iconic sports show will debut on Monday, with two episodes planned …
Discussion: TVNewser, Recode and Adweek
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO's streaming service, HBO Go, has launched in four Central European countries: Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia  —  The direct-to-consumer HBO Go service is available in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia with such hit shows as ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Westworld’ and ‘Silicon Valley.’
Discussion: TechCrunch and Variety
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Daily Telegraph says its Apple News channel receives 5M monthly unique visitors and delivers 70M monthly ad impressions  —  Since the Telegraph adapted its paywall model last November, the publisher has become more serious about distributing content to third-party platforms.
Lindsey Adler / Deadspin:
Becca Schultz, who blogged about baseball while posing as a married man for 8 years since she was 13, accused of duping and harassing women on Twitter  —  For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed …
 
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Lars von Trier's production company, Zentropa, accused by nine Danish women, including journalist Anna Mette Lundtofte, of allowing sexual harassment to happen
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the site's redesign, coming in Q1 2018
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Muddy media reports about Facebook's test to fight revenge porn show the company needs more direct, on-the-record talks with journalists
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
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