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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Messages show WikiLeaks sending requests to Donald Trump Jr., Trump admin appeared to share WikiLeaks' suggested messages at times in 2016 election — Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
RT files paperwork with Justice Department to register as foreign agent — An RT television broadcast van is seen parked outside the Luzhniki stadium ahead of an international soccer match in Moscow. RT has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent of Russia. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)
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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
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Chris Krewson / Spirited Media:
Spirited Media to abandon direct-sold display ads, refocus on events, launch membership programs in early 2018, and explore offering consulting services — Helping figure out the future of local news is hard. We knew that when we formed Spirited Media in 2014, and we've ridden the ups and downs every day since.
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Lars von Trier's production company, Zentropa, accused by nine Danish women, including journalist Anna Mette Lundtofte, of allowing sexual harassment to happen — Zentropa, the leading Scandinavia production company founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen …
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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
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Alex Nichols / The Outline:
Political blog Wonkette is out of place with its Bush-era liberalism style from when it was founded — It's Wonkette. — In times of chaos, politicos are as fascinated with the imagined opinions of the dead as they are the real opinions of the living. There are clickbaity op-eds extrapolating …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 to be the exclusive UK partner in the European Broadcaster Exchange, an alliance of broadcasters that will run commercials across VOD services — Deal will allow advertisers to run campaigns on video-on-demand that could potentially reach up to 160 million viewers
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.
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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.
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