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6:45 PM ET, September 25, 2018

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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside an investigation of an execution video by the BBC's Eye on Africa, which used a Twitter thread with video, images, and animations to tell the story  —  Digital media has made it easier than ever for malicious actors to distribute fake news, including video, but at the same time …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
The New Yorker has faced criticism, mainly from Fox News and other conservative news outlets, over its story on Judge Kavanaugh's latest accuser  —  The magazine faced questions from conservative and mainstream outlets about the lack of corroborating eye-witnesses to support a new claim about Kavanaugh's college behavior.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook removes 12+ partisan pages used by fake accounts to spam 30M+ fans with links to LifeZette.com, founded and still partially owned by Laura Ingraham  —  Facebook has removed over a dozen American hyperpartisan liberal and conservative pages with more than 30 million combined fans …
Cara Buckley / @caranyt:
110 New York Review of Books contributors sign letter protesting firing of Editor Ian Buruma, claiming it was an “abandonment” of NYRB's central mission  —  1/ Just received email of letter from 110 NYRB contributors protesting firing of Ian Buruma “His dismissal in these circumstances strikes us as an abandonment of the central mission of the Review, which is the free exploration of ideas.” pic.twitter.com/XI84Fkwrob
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John Williams / New York Times:
New York Review of Books publisher Rea Hederman says Ghomeshi essay appeared to “downplay” experience of victims and that editorial processes were not followed
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
Over 1.4M people downloaded each of the first two episodes of Serial Season 3 within 14 hours of them going online, making it the podcast's biggest debut yet  —  When Serial returned with its highly anticipated third season last Thursday, dropping two episodes to kick off an ambitious journey …
Discussion: Nieman Lab, Fortune and The A.V. Club
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Amazon, which uses Wikipedia as a source for answers on Alexa, donates $1M to the Wikimedia Endowment  —  Back in March, we asked the question “Are corporations that use Wikipedia giving back?”  The answer was kind of, sort of, with one key exception, noting, “Apple, Facebook …
Erica Sweeney / Marketing Dive:
Magna US ad spending forecast for 2018: digital ad spending will grow 16% to $106B, OTT TV will increase 40% to $2B, and linear TV spending will grow 1%  —  Dive Brief:  — Ad spending on over-the-top (OTT) TV is expected to increase 40% to $2 billion in 2018, according to a fall update to Magna's U.S. ad forecasts for 2018.
Discussion: MAGNA and Axios
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Deadline:
Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, will retire from his role at the end of the year  —  by , Nellie Andreeva tip and , Denise Petski  —  Ken Werner, a TV veteran and one of the most seasoned syndication executives in the business, will retire at the end …
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Hollywood producers have complained to the Producers Guild against Netflix, over its practice of giving its execs EP credits on films and shows  —  With frustrations building in the creative community, the streaming service has quietly softened its unusual crediting practice …
Discussion: @thrmattbelloni and TV Tattle
 
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Anne Davies / The Guardian:
How the culture of News Corp might change under Lachlan Murdoch, who is said to be more conservative than his father but has a different management style
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix will be streaming Part 2 of Making A Murderer on October 19; Part 1 spawned a wave of scripted and unscripted true crime shows
Discussion: The Week and Engadget
Ronnie Ramos / Indianapolis Star:
Ronnie Ramos, Editor of The Indianapolis Star, apologizes for a cartoon in Sunday's print edition which mocked Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford
Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Comcast has bought 30%+ shares in European pay-TV service Sky and says it is seeking to buy more before its takeover deadline
Discussion: Bloomberg and Barron's Online
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The 10" HD screen Echo Show will offer support for Hulu when it ships next month, and Amazon says the first gen Echo Show will also support Hulu live streaming
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Right-wing sites funded by Russia's Internet Research Agency were used to target /r/The_Donald subreddit where the sites' stories were shared thousands of times
Discussion: The Verge
Aisha Hassan / Quartz:
Spotify and Ancestry.com team up to offer users playlists based on DNA test results; generator to select tracks from ancestral cultures and listening habits
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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