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10:35 AM ET, September 20, 2018

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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
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Multiple publisher sources claim Google Ad Manager has been down for several weeks; Google confirms issues but says the problem had been global for only 3 days
Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
The rise of social media, coupled with YouTube stars minute-by-minute documentation of their lives, is making celebrity journalism irrelevant
Press Gazette:
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright says he will not rule out a levy on tech giants to fund newsrooms and the battle against fake news
 Earlier Picks: 
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ITV appoints Reema Sakhan, currently Senior VP at streaming service Britbox US and Canada, to oversee its forthcoming SVOD effort
Ioan Grillo / Esquire:
A look at the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, co-founder of the country's weekly newsmagazine Ríodoce, and how the case became known worldwide
Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Senate passes the Music Modernization Act, which will improve artist payouts from streaming giants, royalties for pre-1972 songs, and payouts to producers
Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies