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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed is cutting its in-house podcast production team and shutting down most of its podcasts, as it shifts resources towards original video content — Digital-media company looks to shift resources away from audio to focus on producing more original shows
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New York Times:
A look at Facebook's plans to fight disinformation, monitor false news, and delete fake accounts, as US midterm elections loom in seven weeks — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot-by-35-foot conference room is under construction.
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Ian Buruma, editor of NYRB, has left his position amid an uproar over publication of an essay by Jian Ghomeshi, a former broadcaster accused of sexual assault — Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books, left his position on Wednesday amid an uproar over the magazine's publication …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: group led by UK investor Ian Osborne is in talks to buy Fortune; Meredith's Alan Murray says multiple bidders exist and doubts deal will occur in 2018 — Marc Benioff was going to buy the business magazine but bought Time instead. Now there's a new round of would-be buyers.
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New York Post and Awful Announcing
Alex Weprin / MediaPost:
Cheddar will provide 20-second news clips on topics like tech and entrepreneurship to GSTV, which programs screens at 18K+ gas stations across the US — Cheddar, the “post-cable” news network, is making the jump to the gas pump. The company will now provide content to GSTV …
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Anne Davies / The Guardian:
How Rupert Murdoch's News Corp steers politics in Australia to a more conservative approach, with two former prime ministers blaming Murdoch for their falls — In his farewell speech as prime minister last month, Malcolm Turnbull pointed to “an insurgency” in his own party and …
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@epeckham, @raymoynihan, @stegersaurus, @margokingston1 and The Guardian
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Marc Benioff describes Time magazine as a “start-up”, says the magazine is profitable, and he has faith in the current management team — Marc Benioff has bought Time, becoming the latest technology mogul to invest in a media property. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
The UK's takeover regulator says it will hold an auction for Sky on Saturday between Comcast and 21st Century Fox if there's no resolution by end of Friday — Sky's fate is likely to be decided in a one-day auction between Comcast and 21st Century Fox. — The UK Takeover Panel announced Thursday …
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Wall Street Journal and The Daily Caller
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
A former Harper's editor says staff concerns about an essay by John Hockenberry were dismissed: “No one in editorial was in support of the Hockenberry article” — “The entire editorial staff shared a feeling, and it was dismissed,” former managing editor Hasan Altaf said.
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Eric Peckham / TechCrunch:
A look at “old media” publishing giants that have invested in e-commerce, digital markets, and new media startups globally — From marketplaces to VR, media giants seek relevance through startup investing — The Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 eras weren't kind to the world's largest media conglomerates …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CEO Bob Bakish says Viacom is not interested in creating a Netflix-like streaming service: ""We see that space as becoming crowded and quite capital-intensive" — Bob Bakish tells the Royal Television Society conference in London that he expects the Paramount Television production business …
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Financial Times and Variety
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify says it will now allow indie artists to directly upload their music to the service; the upload feature is debuting in beta on an invite-only basis in US — Spotify today is taking another step that may make record labels uncomfortable. Fresh off reports that the streaming service …
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@danideahl, @pkafka, @edmundlee, @lucas_shaw, @bluechoochoo and The Verge
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