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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October — Media executive combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
By publishing the anonymous op-ed, NYT changes its position in democracy, forfeits its job of holding power to account, and becomes complicit in own corruption — Let's get the obvious points out of the way first: the anonymous Op-Ed published by the Times on Wednesday was a ploy by someone …
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Michael Burke / The Hill:
White House slams the NYT for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” of the anonymous op-ed author; Sanders urges people to call NYT to ask who source is — The White House on Thursday slammed The New York Times for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” …
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BuzzFeed:
Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy …
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BuzzFeed News:
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — One day after his ban from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been kicked off yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars and Infowars app return no results.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March — Last March, Apple bought Texture, a digital magazine service. Now it wants the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to join up.
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@benmullin, Engadget, @rafat and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is named new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, succeeding David Levy, who is stepping down after 10 years — Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Alan Rusbridger …
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@rasmus_kleis, @arusbridger, @dangillmor, @chanders and @jeffjarvis
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Shorenstein Center and Lenfest Institute release report on local news solutions: subscription bundling, a news startup database, expanding revenue sources, more — A crisis and/or a crossroads: That's one of the many takeaways from a gathering of several dozen leaders from news organizations …
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Shorenstein Center, @newsbyschmidt, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
NYT to publish ~100 poll results in key congressional battleground races in real time through November 4 to give readers a sense of polling process — In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time. — Over the next two months, The New York Times will talk to more voters than ever before.
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Nieman Lab, @nate_cohn, @mattyglesias, @nytpolitics, @niemanlab, @amyfiscus and @emilymbadger
New York Times:
Study of videos on fatal stabbing in Germany found a network of ~650 conspiracy or far-right videos; YouTube consistently led news users toward extremist videos — CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official …
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@marklittlenews, @hadas_gold, @okobojidan, @coreypein and @ictlivingston, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fullscreen founder and CEO George Strompolos steps down to move to an advisory role after AT&T secures full ownership of Fullscreen parent Otter Media — George Strompolos, founder and CEO of Fullscreen, is stepping down as chief exec to move into an advisory role …
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Tubefilter, Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, Deadline and The Wrap
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
New “popular film” Oscar category is to be scrapped by the Academy and six to eight categories to be moved to commercial breaks in 2019 — LOS ANGELES — The most unpopular move the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have ever made was reversed on Thursday …
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Hollywood Reporter, @brooksbarnesnyt, Oscars.org, @marcmonster, The Playlist, Fortune, NPR, The Ringer and Jezebel
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