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9:15 AM ET, October 6, 2018

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Tech firms strongly refute Bloomberg's story on Chinese spies installing chips into motherboards; story shows the difficulty of reporting on national security  —  Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
Minnesota's NBC affiliate fired reporter Jim Bunner after he wore a MAGA hat while covering a Trump rally for the station, citing a policy violation  —  A reporter for an NBC affiliate in Minnesota was fired Friday, one day after he was spotted wearing a “Make America Great Again” …
Discussion: Star Tribune and Mediaite
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Survey: among 38 outlets, WSJ is the most trusted news org with 57.7% of the vote; the six least trusted are partisan sites; 13% of respondents don't trust any  —  About 13 percent of Americans don't trust any news outlet at all.  (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)
Discussion: Forbes and Simmons Research
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tronc, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers, is changing its name back to Tribune Publishing; stock symbol changes to TPCO
Ben Bland / Financial Times:
The Financial Times says Hong Kong will not renew a work visa for Victor Mallet, the paper's Asia news editor, and has not given a reason for the decision  —  The Hong Kong government has rejected the visa renewal application of the Financial Times' top news editor in Asia …
Siobhan O'Connor / Medium:
Medium expects to spend nearly $5M in 2018 paying commissioned and Partner Program writers for their work  —  We're investing heavily in editorial and the Partner Program  —  As many of you have noticed, we've been building out a team of editors and curators at Medium over the last several months.
Discussion: @stevenbjohnson and @eephusleague
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Kavanaugh hearings are a boon for hyperpartisan publishers on Facebook, though the most popular links on the subject come from trusted news sources like WaPo  —  “It is certainly the biggest story in politics since the 2016 election,” one publisher told BuzzFeed News
Reed Richardson / FAIR:
NYT's apology for giving Kavanaugh article to Bazelon highlights the absurdity of the idea that people with expertise can't have opinions for objectivity's sake  —  What happens when a national newspaper cares more about the appearance of bias in its reporting than any actual evidence of it?
Sarah Marsh / The Guardian:
Retailer Topshop abruptly canceled a partnership with Penguin featuring a collection of feminist writing; Topshop apologized and donated £25K to charity Girl Up  —  Store apologises and makes donation to charity after removal of pop-up promotion  —  Topshop abruptly cancelled …
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Poll of 2,200 US adults reveals ~60% rarely or never read Trump's tweets, only 15% read them very often, those who do read them are more likely to be Democrats  —  A new Public Affairs Council/Morning Consult poll reveals that a majority of Americans have become indifferent toward President Trump's tweets …
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Carole Cadwalladr threatened Channel 4 with an injunction to make its reporters and editors hand over sources and transcripts linked to Cambridge Analytica  —  Carole Cadwalladr hired lawyers to threaten action against her broadcast partner and fell out with the New York Times and BBC in rows over access to sources.
Discussion: @buzzfeedben and @carolecadwalla
 
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
A year after introducing a native video player, Reddit says the player has surpassed 1B views per month, with over 50% of all video views served by it
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
National Geographic Partners has laid off 12 full-time staffers from its digital operation ahead of pending sale to Disney as part of 21st Century Fox deal
Jack Sullivan / CommonWealth Magazine:
Sources: Boston Herald, bought by Digital First Media in February, lays off about 20 staffers, including at least two photographers and five on sports copy desk
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