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7:40 AM ET, September 25, 2018

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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  —  “What is the sound of you?”  —  This was a question Ancestry, the world's largest for-profit genealogy company, recently asked its users.
Hollywood Reporter:
NBC Entertainment head Bob Greenblatt to be replaced by new co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy, effective immediately  —  NBCUniversal boss Steve Burke made the announcement Monday in a memo to staff.  —  It's official: Bob Greenblatt's tenure as NBC Entertainment has come to an end.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Opinion: pro-Trump analysts are important for CNN to avoid partisan presentation but it has had a difficult time keeping them due to their indefensible behavior  —  But some of their behavior is indefensible  —  CNN's shows regularly feature people who like to defend the administration of President Donald Trump.
Discussion: TVWeek.com
Komal Gupta / Livemint:
WhatsApp has appointed Komal Lahiri as grievance officer to help curb the spread of misinformation and rumors in India, Lahiri will be based in the US  —  WhatsApp India's grievance officer, Komal Lahiri, who was appointed last month, will be based in the US
Discussion: Mashable, TechCrunch and The Next Web
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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / Jezebel:
Five women describe emotional abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting by Mic writer Jack Smith IV; Mic says it found no evidence of improper behavior by him at Mic  —  As we near the one-year mark of the public accusations against Harvey Weinstein—that he serially assaulted women …
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  —  The New York Review of Books issued a statement on Monday addressing the sudden departure of its editor last week …
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  —  Amazon's Echo Show will apparently also work like a little TV, not just a visual interface for Alexa and her many apps.
John Leland / New York Times:
Seven ways the Village Voice, which laboriously covered local news in NYC, made a difference, from uncovering corruption to giving voice to feminists  —  When The Voice folded after more than 60 years, the city lost a contrarian, muckraking spirit that can never be replaced.  Here, a few of its greatest hits.
Discussion: @rachelholliday
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Source: Comcast is willing to sell its 30% stake in streaming service Hulu to Disney  —  - Comcast expects Disney will let go of its 39 percent stake, giving CEO Brian Roberts complete ownership of the TV distributor and owner of content, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Spriha Srivastava / CNBC:
UK broadcaster Sky says it has accepted $39B takeover offer from Comcast, urges shareholders to accept the offer immediately
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  —  A handful of articles from websites with connections to Russia's infamous troll factory have been shared thousands of times on /r/The_Donald.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
In an effort to reach $8M for its ICO, Civil to sell CVL tokens using direct payments after complains about the complexity of the buying process  —  Depending which hyperbolic headlines you believe, blockchain journalism startup Civil is going to “save journalism,” “fix journalism,” …
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal  —  Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday.  —  Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent …
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
A look at how Barstool Sports employees, fans regularly harass female reporters, with founder Dave Portnoy once asking if a woman “kind of deserves to be raped”  —  Multiple female sportswriters recount the ugly harassment they received from Stoolies—and place much of the blame …
 
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CNNMoney:
CNNMoney to rebrand as CNN Business as of October 4
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian's special projects head Mark Rice-Oxley tells journalism seminar mental health should be part of diversity conversations and performance reviews
Max Willens / Digiday:
Bloomberg Media rolls out Bulletin, a personalized one-sentence news summary feature in its mobile app written by an AI-powered program
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:
Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up
Economist:
Profile of the Global Times, a Chinese tabloid and subsidiary of the Communist Party's People's Daily, which sells 1.5M copies of its Chinese edition a day
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are starting The Markup, a news site to cover big tech using data science, with a $20M gift from Craig Newmark and other funding