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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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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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Mediaite, TVNewser, Washington Post, @matthewshaer and @daweiner
CBC News:
Facebook partners with Ryerson School of Journalism and DMZ to launch Digital News Innovation Challenge, an incubator for news startups — Five startups from around Canada that ‘drive innovation for journalism’ will be funded — Facebook's highly-publicized efforts to combat online misinformation …
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VentureBeat and Adweek
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
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Facebook and Twitter say they will respond to UK requests for information about possible Russian meddling in Brexit and UK general election within weeks — US social media giants have said they're ready to cooperate with a UK probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 EU referendum.
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TechCrunch, The Guardian, @jamesrbuk, Mirror.co.uk and @markdistef, more at Techmeme »
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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Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
35 publishers including Hearst, WaPo, and NBCU are trying TrustX, a programmatic ad exchange with impressions, audited by Moat, eclipsing 1B so far this month — When TrustX launched in September, David Kohl was nervous. — “One of the fears is that we would find ourselves in a situation …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Report: Trump is privately telling people, most recently a White House advisor, that the Access Hollywood tape is a fake, despite apologizing for it earlier — A New York Times report on President Trump and Roy Moore features one detail that you may not have expected we'd be revisiting.
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.
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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TVNewser, @keitholbermann and The Daily Caller
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.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Chicago cop charged with murder subpoenas journalist Jamie Kalven to gain access to his sources, claiming leaked documents may have influenced witnesses — CHICAGO — If not for the reporting of Jamie Kalven, an independent journalist in Chicago, the world might never have known the name Laquan McDonald …
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