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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 — Coverage peaked during Kavanaugh testimony with 7.2 million viewers on Fox News alone. — Thursday's testimonies from Supreme Court …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Nonprofit news survey: total revenues of $325M+ and 2,200 journalists, half of the organizations generated more than $500K in 2017, and one third topped $1M — As local newspapers and their reporting and editing staffs continue to shrink, a perennial question has become even more relevant …
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Chloe Melas / CNN:
Vincent Favale, a CBS SVP, has been placed on leave after claims he used sexual and homophobic language; two sources say he retaliated after they complained — (CNN)A CBS executive has been placed on leave after multiple individuals spoke to CNN accusing the senior vice president of talent …
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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 — FORMER EDITOR: “I KNEW THE WRITING WAS ON THE WALL.” — Over the past several years, San Francisco Magazine has, consistently, told some of the best-researched …
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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 — Jihadi rapists. Muslim invaders. Faked mass shootings. Pizzagate. — Somebody browsing highly partisan websites in recent weeks …
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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 — Saudi Arabia denies that Jamal Khashoggi, missing since Tuesday, is still in the building which Turkish security forces have surrounded
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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
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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 — The advertisements all seemed innocuous at a glance. — A ribald sendup of fairy tales hosted by a comedian in Los Angeles.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea orders police and prosecutors to investigate and punish those who “generate fake news with malicious intent and systemically spread it” — SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced a sweeping crackdown on “fake news” on Tuesday, calling it “a destroyer of democracy.”
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Pandora and SoundCloud announce that Pandora will take over advertising placement and sales for SoundCloud in the US starting in 2019 — (Reuters) - Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc and music-sharing service SoundCloud said on Wednesday that Pandora will take over handling the U.S. advertising for SoundCloud.
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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 — Three reporters spent over a year digging through more than 100,000 pages of documents and chasing down key sources familiar with President Trump's father and his empire.
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.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph is putting most of its politics, business, and rugby coverage behind a paywall, as it cuts back on free content — Title increases amount of ‘premium’ content as it seeks to pull in more paying readers — The Telegraph is to put the vast majority of its politics …
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