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WaPo publishes off-the-record comments by a woman who falsely claimed to be impregnated as a teenager by Roy Moore and had connections with Project Veritas — A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama …
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Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Tumblr founder David Karp announces resignation from the company in email to staff, said decision came “after months of reflection on my personal ambitions” — After 11 years, Tumblr's founder and public face David Karp announced his resignation from the company in a staff email this afternoon.
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Brian Welk / The Wrap:
Keith Olbermann announces final episode of his GQ political web series The Resistance and that he is “retiring from political commentary in all media venues” — Keith Olbermann thinks Donald Trump is finished, and with that, so is his show “The Resistance.”
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg says the company is on pace to grow revenue by 50% this year to $45M and plans to make acquisitions in the coming year — Female-focused site is on track to hit its target of $45 million in revenue this year, says founder Bryan Goldberg
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Rival TV executives from ESPN, Time Warner's Turner, and other networks joined a summit convened by NBCU to discuss the industry's advertising woes — A parade of Madison Avenue's top executives streamed into a posh Manhattan restaurant in hopes of starting a conversation orchestrated …
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Andrew Granato / Stanford Politics:
Inside the Stanford Review, the “contrarian” publication founded by Peter Thiel; former staff say Thiel meets with eds regularly and often hires Review alumni — This is the cover story for the November 2017 issue of Stanford Politics Magazine.
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Politico:
Koch brothers' ‘passive’ role in Time Inc. takeover met with skepticism — 'They're always looking to exert influence in one way or another,' says Koch biographer after the conservative billionaires backed Meredith's takeover of the magazine giant. — Charles and David Koch …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith agrees to buy Time Inc. for $1.85B, at a ~46% premium to Nov. 15's closing price, with $650M coming from Koch brothers, will assume ~$1B in Time's debt
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Noah Kulwin / VICE News:
YouTube says it has terminated 270+ accounts, taken down 150K+ videos, removed ads from ~2M videos over past week as it purges content that endangers children — For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children.
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JP Mangalindan / Yahoo! Finance:
Facebook publishes its advertising principles, including safety, transparency, being “people first”, and user control, in response to recent ad controversies — FB) has weathered serious blowback in the past year over revelations that Russia purchased ads on the social network to reach
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Matthew Shaer / New York Times:
A profile of Fox News host Sean Hannity, described by Stephen Bannon “as the single most important voice for the ‘deplorables’”, and his influence on Trump — The Fox News host is willing to defend Trump at all costs — and is reaching more than 13 million people a day.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
AT&T and Time Warner have announced they've extended the termination date of their merger agreement to 22 April 2018, following DOJ lawsuit — The telecom giant reiterates it is “confident” that a court will reject the Department of Justice's legal challenge.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Hearst Magazines forms Hearst Originals, a department for developing original video series for digital platforms; not all content to be tied to magazine brands — Hearst Magazines Digital Media has formed a five-person division dedicated to developing, creating and selling original video series for digital platforms.
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