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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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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 — Deal valuing publisher at more than $1.8 billion would be significant bet on future of magazine industry
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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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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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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
YouTube's search autofill found to surface disturbing results like “how to have s*x with your kids”, which YouTube says it quickly removed and is investigating — Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for “how to have” is auto-completing with pedophiliac phrases.
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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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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
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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Globe and Mail:
Postmedia and Torstar agree to swap 37 community and four free commuter papers with most of them closing and 291 employees being laid off — Canada's two largest newspaper companies have struck a deal to swap a total of 37 community newspapers and four free commuter papers …
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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.
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.
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