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9:15 AM ET, October 3, 2018

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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi disappeared on Tuesday after visiting Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to obtain a doc he needed to get married  —  BEIRUT — A veteran journalist from Saudi Arabia who has become a sharp critic of the country's leadership was detained Tuesday …
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post and a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia, has disappeared after entering Saudi consulate in Istanbul  —  Our contributor Jamal Khashoggi entered the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul on Tuesday afternoon.  Many hours later, there is still no news from him.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
CBS reporter Bianna Golodryga has been named a co-host of “CBS This Morning”  —  CBS reporter Bianna Golodryga has been named a co-host of “CBS This Morning,” the network announced in a statement Wednesday.  She will join up with the show's current hosts Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell and John Dickerson.
Discussion: TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable
Maureen Ryan / Hollywood Reporter:
Brad Kern, a consulting producer on NCIS: New Orleans, has been fired by CBS Television Studios following a third HR probe into harassment and other allegations  —  A third investigation into the former ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ showrunner has resulted in his dismissal from the CBS procedural and his overall deal being terminated.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Singapore legislation, expected to pass next year, will give the government “powers to swiftly disrupt the spread and influence of online falsehoods”  —  Government hearings in Singapore put Facebook under intense scrutiny and have paved the way for a new fake news law in the country.
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Filing: Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment bought 68M+ shares in Tencent Music Entertainment ahead of its US IPO for a cash aggregate of ~$200M  —  MBW has started digging through Tencent Music Entertainment's IPO filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Reuters:
Tencent Music formally files for IPO in the US, says it had $263M profit on $1.3B revenue in the first half of 2018
Karl Bode / Motherboard:
Report: after years of steady decline, BitTorrent usage is once again growing, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services with exclusive content  —  BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
Discussion: The Next Web
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
A look at Elisabeth Murdoch's Vertical Networks, which engages teenagers on Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube with popular original shows and a digital magazine  —  GLENDALE, Calif. — A young actor with a bushy goatee, cast as a Satanist on a murder-mystery show called “Solve,” sat facing a camera on a stuffy, no-frills set in July.
Erin Arvedlund / Philly.com:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and watchdog outlet The Caucus are joining forces to cover the state with a project called Spotlight PA  —  At a time of dwindling resources for news, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Caucus …
Samantha Cole / Motherboard:
Wikipedia editors have voted to classify Breitbart as an unreliable reference for facts and decided that Infowars should be generally prohibited as a source  —  Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”
 
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Legal battle for filmmaker Brett Ratner, who stopped working on Warner Bros. jobs last year amid sexual misconduct claims, ends with no money changing hands
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and IndieWire
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
TV networks and studios are using chat fiction app Yarn to target younger audiences for their existing shows and to develop new content franchises
Alex Cooper / OCCRP:
Slovak authorities arrest woman alleged to have ordered the hit on local investigative journalist Jan Kuciak for €70K
David Bauder / Associated Press:
NYT says it shouldn't have assigned Emily Bazelon, a magazine writer who criticized Kavanaugh on Twitter, to story on Kavanaugh's alleged role in bar fight
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Diane Pathieu / ABC7 Chicago:
Reporter Zachary Siegel was taken into custody after a judge in trial of police officer Jason Van Dyke said Siegel broke the judge's decorum order by recording
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
White House corrects transcript from press conference to reflect Trump insulting ABC journalist Cecilia Vega by saying that she never thinks
Discussion: The Daily Beast and CNN
WashPostPR / Washington Post:
The Washington Post Magazine has relaunched with a redesign for the print edition, new editorial features, and more
Discussion: MediaPost
Twitter:
Twitter outlines its election integrity efforts ahead of midterms, says it removed ~50 accounts pretending to be members of various state Republican parties
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC unveils a new chip manufacturing technology called A16; the company plans to start producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026
 
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