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11:35 AM ET, November 19, 2017

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Bloomberg:
With ads hard to sell and VC hard to raise, sources say media startups like Defy Media and Uproxx consider, like Mashable, selling to bigger companies  —  Defy Media, Uproxx also weigh sale as capital to grow dries up  —  Web publishers that made ‘pivot to video’ struggle to sell ads
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: IAC is exploring selling The Daily Beast, but the company has no formal sales effort in place  —  Digital media is facing a reckoning.  —  The start-ups that were once the darlings of the industry are facing budget shortfalls and revenue declines as they struggle to survive …
Discussion: @dylanbyers
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC approves ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, dubbed “Next Gen TV”, with interactive features, UHD support, and geotargeted emergency alerts and advertisements  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the use of new technology that will improve picture quality …
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
How The Washington Post built Arc, its suite of digital publishing tools, and started offering the software to other newsrooms as a paid service  —  The newspaper created a platform to tackle its own challenges.  Then, with Amazon-like spirit, it realized there was a business in helping other publishers do the same.
New York Times:
With $600M stake in Meredith's offer to buy Time Inc., the Kochs inch closer to becoming media moguls  —  Four years ago, Charles G. and David H. Koch seemed poised to control some of the country's biggest newspapers.  Known for using their vast wealth and network of donors to advance …
Discussion: Publishing Executive
April Glaser / Slate:
Communications Decency Act, section 230 protects websites from liability for users' posts and has enabled both website growth and hate speech, disinformation  —  But also made the internet what we have today.  —  The internet didn't have to turn out this way.
Discussion: Simple Justice
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with Funny or Die CEO Mike Farah on partnering with AMC, remaining independent, scale, and how most virality is driven by Facebook  —  Mike Farah discusses the evolution of digital content, partnering with AMC and charting an independent path: “I don't like to chase.
Rick Stengel / Politico:
Former US under secretary of state describes the Russian disinformation campaign on Crimea in 2014 and how the same tactics were used in the 2016 US election  —  Russian disinformation around Ukraine set the stage for the Kremlin's election meddling here.  Clinton saw it coming, but couldn't stop it.
Ryan Ori / Chicago Tribune:
Tronc says the Chicago Tribune will leave Tribune Tower in Q2 2018, leasing space in a building overlooking Millennium Park  —  Built in 1925, the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower was designed by New York architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, who won a contest held by Tribune co-publishers …
 
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Amanda Robb / Rolling Stone:
An investigation into the roots of Pizzagate: the real people behind some of the social accounts that later were amplified by bots
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Vice Media suspends Jason Mojica, head of documentary film unit, as part of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter confirms it is testing a feature that will make it easier to publish tweetstorms
Discussion: Android Police
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Forbes says it is reducing print frequency from 14 issues/year to 10 and also cutting 20 people from payroll
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Vox Media editorial and video staffers announce plans to join Writers Guild of America East
The Guardian:
At News Corp AGM, Murdoch says “our hands are...full making our existing papers viable” and that digital advertising has been “tremendously damaging to print”
Sean Illing / Vox:
New study finds China uses “cheerleading”, or flooding the internet with positive news in order to eclipse bad news, as a method to manipulate its population
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Axios raises $20M to fund newsroom expansion, plans to increase staffing to 150 by the end of 2018