Mediagazer: By handing off power of fact-checking to third parties and providing no guidance, Facebook opens the door to battles like ThinkProgress vs The Weekly Standard (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

Theodore Schleifer / Recode:

Mary Meeker and three partners are leaving Kleiner Perkins to form a new firm; sources describe clashes between early and late stage groups at Kleiner Perkins — Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley's most famous firms. — Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins …

Discussion: New York Times, Axios, TechCrunch, Business Insider, @teddyschleifer and @twehmeier, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

By handing off power of fact-checking to third parties and providing no guidance, Facebook opens the door to battles like ThinkProgress vs The Weekly Standard — ThinkProgress vs. The Weekly Standard. Here's a mini-saga that encompasses many of the things we argue about now.

Discussion: Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Discussion: @mantzarlis, The Intercept, Popular Information, Slate, @laurahazardowen, @billadairduke, @mantzarlis, @rachaelbl, @sandhawke, @mantzarlis, @mantzarlis, @holmeslybrand, @mantzarlis, @mantzarlis, Quartz, NBC News, MediaPost and The Verge

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Jemele Hill, who drew criticism when she called Trump a white supremacist on Twitter in 2017, confirms she is leaving ESPN — Jemele Hill, the outspoken sports journalist and commentator who took sparked a massive controversy for the Walt Disney-owned cable network when she called President Donald Trump a …

Discussion: @jemelehill, CNNMoney, HuffPost, Sports Illustrated, The Hill, CBS News, Associated Press, NBC News, WBRZ and @richarddeitsch

Bloomberg:

YouTube's ninth most-watched channel, Little Baby Bum, founded in 2011 by a UK couple, has been bought by Moonbug agency, with one price estimate of £6M-£8.5M — One of YouTube's most popular brands has been bought by a trio of entertainment-industry veterans with ties to Disney …

Discussion: @pkafka, Tubefilter and @business

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Transcript of conversation between Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Jay Rosen: on news, impartiality, abuse, misinformation, bad actors, and hiring an ombudsman — Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn't expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”

Discussion: Slate

Eudora Wang / China Money Network:

Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, prices its downsized IPO at $7 per share, raising $84M and valuing the company at $2.1B — Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by the country's technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, is seeking to raise US$84 million …

Max Mason / Financial Review:

Sources: News Corp is cutting about 30 editorial jobs across its Australian titles, including The Australian, the Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph — Share via Email — Post on facebook wall — Post to Linkedin — News Corporation is taking the axe to its Australian publications …

Discussion: Mumbrella

Frida Garza / Jezebel:

The New York Review of Books publishes a story by former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi on his experience being accused and controversially acquitted of sexual assault — On Friday, the New York Review of Books published “Reflections on a Hashtag,” the cover story for its October print issue …

Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:

In “Fear”, Woodward's easily identified sources are cast in a positive light and relied on for scoops despite the fact that they're not known for their honesty — Bob Woodward's new book, Fear, a devastating portrait of a presidency lurching from crisis to crisis, is a certified blockbuster.

Discussion: Observer and @froomkin

Lydia DePillis / CNNMoney:

During a talk, Jeff Bezos says, “it's a mistake for any elected official to attack media and journalists” and that demonizing the media is dangerous — Jeff Bezos defends the press against Trump — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who typically tries to stay out of the political fray …

Discussion: @postroz, Mediaite and The Week

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Killings of journalists in Pakistan decline, but so does press freedom under military restrictions; reporters who push back are attacked, threatened, arrested — As killings of journalists in Pakistan decline so too does press freedom, as the country's powerful military quietly, but effectively …

Cherie Hu / Billboard:

MusicWatch: paid music streaming subscribers surpass 50M in US, nearly double end of 2016 numbers, with ~20M separate users sharing but not paying for access — An estimated 51 million people in the U.S. are now paying monthly subscriptions for music streaming services …