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Sky News:
James Murdoch and six other directors have resigned from the board of Sky plc, which is the owner of Sky News, as Comcast takes control — James Murdoch has resigned from the board of Sky plc, owner of Sky News, as Comcast takes majority control in a £29.7bn deal.
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City A.M.
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Comcast confirms it has bought 21st Century Fox's stake in European broadcaster Sky, becoming its majority shareholder with 75% ownership — Company now owns 75% of satellite provider — Comcast said that it has purchased 21st Century Fox's stake in Sky and now owns 75% of the satellite broadcaster.
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Multichannel News, Telegraph, Reuters, CNBC, Hollywood Reporter, Comcast, @skynewsbreak, Phys.org, Pushback and Variety
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: just two weeks before production is due to begin on Roger Ailes movie, Annapurna Pictures leaves the project over budget issues — Bron Studios, the Canada-based company behind ‘Fences’ and ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ has come on to co-finance production, sources say, while Focus Features …
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Variety, The Wrap, @tatianasiegel27, The A.V. Club, Vanity Fair and /Film
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Source: Chelsea Barnard steps down as president of film at Annapurna; founder Megan Ellison will manage the film unit before the search for a replacement begins — Chelsea Barnard has stepped down from her post as president of film at Annapurna, an individual with knowledge of the company told Variety.
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Deadline, The Wrap, The Playlist and /Film
New York Times:
Source: Turkey has concluded Jamal Khashoggi was killed on orders from highest levels of Saudi's royal court; another source says video proof of death exists — ANKARA, Turkey — Top Turkish security officials have concluded that the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated …
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@washpostpr, Vox, The Hill, BBC, Slate, Bloomberg, Politico, @evan_rosenfeld, @tomgara, @timkaine, @nycsouthpaw, @johnmcquaid, Al Jazeera English and UN Geneva
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Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz, the only witness to see him enter the Saudi consulate, says he'd feared something would happen to him there
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz, the only witness to see him enter the Saudi consulate, says he'd feared something would happen to him there
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Politico, @amyjbrittain, @smekhennet, Middle East Eye, New York Post, @mrdanzak, @yashar, @lovedaym, The Daily Caller, Editor & Publisher and The Guardian
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Forbes partners with journalism blockchain network Civil to become the first major media company to experiment with publishing stories to the blockchain — Forbes, the century-old business publisher, is joining forces with Civil, a journalism blockchain network, to become the first major media company …
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@nicolebode, @baekdal, @mariabustillos, @lillian_ruiz, @tefomohapi, @randalllane and Civil, more at Techmeme »
Jessi Hempel / LinkedIn:
Wired Senior Writer Jessi Hempel is joining LinkedIn as senior editor at large — Starting this week, I'll be a senior editor at large for LinkedIn, based in New York City, and continuing to explore the set of ideas that has driven my reporting for the past 15 years …
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@adamnash, @jessiwrites, @cfair1, @danprimack and Talking Biz News
eMarketer and Newsroom Posts:
eMarketer forecast: video ad spending in the US will grow ~30% to $27.82B in 2018, making up 25% of US digital ad spending, with Facebook capturing ~24.5% of it — Facebook dominates with a quarter share — This year will mark a milestone for digital video advertising in the US, according to eMarketer's latest ad spending forecast.
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Tubefilter and Marketing Land
Variety:
Employees at Fox's film division 20th Century Fox are bracing themselves for mass layoffs when Disney deal closes; some analysts predict thousands of jobs cut — Media coverage of Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets has focused on the historic union of two titans …
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TVWeek.com
The Moscow Times:
The office of a “troll farm” which is believed to be the vanguard of Russia's disinformation war was set on fire in St Petersburg overnight — The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Discovery reorganizes its digital video operations and forms the Digital Studios Group, a hub for video content drawn from all of its brands — Discovery has reorganized its digital-video operations with the formation of the Digital Studios Group, a newly expanded hub for digital …
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Multichannel News, MediaPost and Radio & Television …
Gian Volpicelli / Wired UK:
UK Parliament committee plans to release “fake news” report in October, with detailed policy recommendations — The DCMS Committee's upcoming report, which has been led by Damian Collins, will answer one question: was democracy hacked? — Can democracy be hacked?
Kali Hays / WWD:
For a Google ad campaign, seven Condé Nast magazines including Architectural Digest and GQ turn over their November covers to images shot with the Pixel 3 — The advertising tie-in is the biggest simultaneously running cover campaign for Condé and Google.
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@condenast and @anoyes
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