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7:05 AM ET, September 26, 2018

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Will Oremus / Slate:
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth  —  The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience.  One thing it hasn't delivered: money.  —  In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
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 …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
WaPo to expand its Arc publishing platform as a subscriptions tool sold to others, then as an ad network, aiming to own infrastructure in a similar play as AWS  —  It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers.  But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too.
Bill Chappell / NPR:
Amazon taps Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer as the first all-female team to call NFL games, as one of four audio options for games streamed to Prime subscribers  —  Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first female announcing team to cover an NFL game this Thursday …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Sources: Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah has told multiple people he plans to leave the White House after the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings  —  WASHINGTON — One of the White House's most visible staffers has his eye on the exit door.  Raj Shah, a deputy press secretary who has stepped behind …
Discussion: @altuspresssec and @weinbergersa
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US  —  To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.
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, Axios and @marketingdive
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 …
Motherboard:
Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD  —  In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.
 
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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
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Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, will retire from his role at the end of the year
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
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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
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The News Media Association, which represents British newspapers including The Guardian, has called on the UK govt to levy a tax on tech giants to fund the press