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4:10 PM ET, October 4, 2018

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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Study finds that of the 700K+ Twitter accounts that linked to 600+ sites spreading misinformation in 2016, more than 80% are still active and many are bots  —  Twitter is still rife with “fake news” a month out from the 2018 midterms, with more than 80 percent of the accounts …
Los Angeles Times:
Slate Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner is leaving to become deputy managing editor responsible for arts and entertainment coverage at The Los Angeles Times  —  The Los Angeles Times named Julia Turner its deputy managing editor responsible for Arts and Entertainment coverage.
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
EU approves guidelines whereby 30% of all content carried on streaming services must be European with strict rules on ads and product placement in kids' content  —  Under the new guidelines, 30 percent of all content carried on streaming services in Europe will have to come from the region.
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
With its investigation of Trump's wealth, the NYT acknowledged its past role in glorifying Trump's negotiating skills and found the proof for what some assumed  —  We live at a time when journalism can land with great force.  The epic investigation published Tuesday by The New York Times …
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Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How three New York Times reporters spent over a year combing through 100K+ documents and interviewing people to uncover the source of Trump's wealth
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN launches CNN Business, a site with a focus on how tech affects other business sectors, and opens a San Francisco bureau as it shuts down CNNMoney  —  CNN is taking the wraps off its new business site, CNN Business, to reflect an increased emphasis on Silicon Valley.
Discussion: TVNewser and Adweek
Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Ken Ward Jr., a veteran reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, gets a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation  —  Your support makes that possible — subscribe today  —  Your support makes that possible — subscribe today
Trey Williams / The Wrap:
CEO of the owner of MoviePass says the company raised $65M in September and that subscribers are going to less than one movie a month on average  —  TheGrill 2018: “We've been the underdog since August 15 of last year... we're still here, and we're not going anywhere," Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A look at NYT's Wirecutter Money, which focuses on services, not products, and aims at the same age group that dominates Wirecutter's audience: millennials  —  Imagine a world in which Donald Trump is no longer President.  —  No, really.  Okay, if that concept's beyond your immediate comprehension …
Discussion: @nbj914
Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:
Wikipedia initially rejected a page for scientist Donna Strickland in May due to lack of “significant coverage”, then built a page after she won a Nobel Prize  —  - Dr. Donna Strickland jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, but she did not have a Wikipedia page until then.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Discussion: The Drum
CNBC:
Barnes & Noble to look at strategic alternatives including a possible sale, after receiving interest from multiple parties including Chairman Leonard Riggio  —  - The announcement follows expressions of interest from multiple parties, including its chairman Leonard Riggio, it said in a statement.
Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
Cheddar is using Synacor and its Cloud ID platform to give free access to viewers via YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV  —  Buffalo tech vendor says its cloud-based identity management tool is being use by digital news platform for vMVPD authentication  —  Buffalo, NY-based pay TV software …
Discussion: Axios and The Wrap
 
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen estimates 20M+ viewers watched Kavanaugh hearings on TV, 11M+ via cable; Fox News averaged 5.7M viewers to beat CNN and MSNBC's total combined
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
Layoffs loom at San Francisco magazine, part of the Modern Luxury chain, as owners seek higher profits through a leaner magazine budget
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Pandora and SoundCloud announce that Pandora will take over advertising placement and sales for SoundCloud in the US starting in 2019
Discussion: Radio & Television … and Variety
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Facebook blocks advertisements mentioning LGBT themes and words like “gender-neutral” for being political, says majority of rejections were in error
Discussion: Engadget
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Washington Post:
Review shows ads from mainstream brands like the Girl Scouts still appear on fringe sites because of automated buying, effectively funding extremist content
Middle East Eye:
Turkish officials say Saudi journalist Kamal Khashoggi is in custody in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a claim denied by a Saudi official
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
CBS reporter Bianna Golodryga has been named a co-host of “CBS This Morning”
Discussion: TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable