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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Twitter DMs show Wikileaks asked Trump Jr. to help share its work, support Assange as ambassador; Trump Jr. appeared to act on some requests during '16 campaign — Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election …
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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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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Profile of new Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia who got her start in journalism as arts editor at Moscow Times — Radhika Jones grew up around music. Her father, Robert L. Jones, a singer and guitarist, was a prominent figure on the Cambridge, Mass., folk scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Erin Nyren / Variety:
New York Times Books Editor Radhika Jones has been named the next editor of Vanity Fair
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: New LA Times editor told journalists told not to retweet praise of investigative series on Disney, elevating tension within the newsroom — A dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Walt Disney Company has ignited a battle between the paper's employees and its new top management.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fullscreen Media says it will shut down its SVOD service January 2018, will lay off about 25 employees — Fullscreen Media will pull the plug on its subscription-video service introduced less than two years ago, and is laying off about 25 employees with the shutdown.
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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.
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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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
A&E Networks takes significant minority stake in Dan Abrams' live trial website, renamed Law&Crime Network, as part of deal; source says firm valued at $15M — Deal envisions development of modern-day Court TV with eye toward broader distribution — Dan Abrams's dream of bringing …
Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Former Hulu CTO Tian Lim hired last month by Google as VP for Google Play; Hulu SVP of engineering Barry Steinglass will be interim CTO — Google just added a high-ranking Hulu executive to its team: The company has hired former Hulu CTO Tian Lim, who will be leading product and user experience efforts as a VP for Google Play.
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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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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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Elisabeth Zerofsky / New Yorker:
A look at German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which has become a go-to place for leaks like the Panama and Paradise Papers — Earlier this week, Bastian Obermayer, a reporter for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, showed me into his “war room,” on the twenty-fourth floor of the paper's office tower, in Munich.
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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