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9:55 AM ET, September 25, 2018

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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.
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  —  Comcast said Tuesday it had snapped up more than 30% of the shares in Sky, the European pay-TV service that it is in the process of buying.
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Times
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 …
Hollywood Reporter:
Source: CBS News management intends to select Jeff Fager's replacement at “60 Minutes” by the end of September; Exec Editor Bill Owens is favorite among staff  —  The internal bake-off to succeed the newsmagazine chief is heating up, with Bill Owens and Susan Zirinsky eyed as candidates for the exec producer role.
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.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Discussion: Mashable and Engadget
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
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.
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 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
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
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.
 
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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
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
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
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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
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”
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
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal
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