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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Trust Project, which encourages publishers to tag articles with indicators like author expertise, adds partners including Toronto Star, El País, and SkyNews — The Trust Project, which launched last November as an effort to provide more clarity around who's behind news by labeling articles with …
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Poynter, @craignewmark, @spj_tweets, Toronto Star and Washington Post
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat launches Snap Originals, 12 daily scripted original shows for its Discover section, with each episode lasting four or five minutes — Snapchat needs reasons for teens to come back every day as it struggles to grow amidst competition from Instagram, so it's capitalizing on its Los Angeles roots.
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Internal Condé Nast memo says Chief Digital Officer Fred Santarpia will leave the company on Nov. 2; sources say more exec departures expected in coming weeks — Condé Nast's chief digital architect is leaving the company, a departure that many staffers view as a bad omen …
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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, @tatianasiegel27, Scroll.in, The Wrap, The A.V. Club, /Film, Vanity Fair and Deadline
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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 and The Playlist
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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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
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CNBC, Multichannel News, Phys.org, Pushback, Comcast, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Telegraph, Variety and @skynewsbreak
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
A look at the podcast empires of conservative writer Ben Shapiro and liberal production company Crooked Media, as they both expand into TV — LOS ANGELES — In a drab office building across from a used-car lot in the San Fernando Valley, the host of the nation's most popular conservative podcast …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Tribune Media sells a 48-acre property in Long Island that once housed office and printing operations of Newsday for $54.4M — The old cow pasture just sold for $54 million. — The 48-acre parcel of land in Melville, Long Island, where Newsday is based — once lampooned as a cow pasture …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
STAT, the medical news site that shares an owner with The Boston Globe, is focusing on big group subscriptions and may launch a more specialized product in 2019 — Is man flu real? Is jet lag worse when you're traveling east? Does smoking pot make you stupid?
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook to set up an election task force in India to help distinguish news from propaganda and prevent election-related abuse ahead of 2019 national elections — Facebook is reportedly setting up a task force to prevent bad actors from using its platform to influence major national elections in India in 2019.
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NDTV.com, @indiatoday, India Today and The Verge
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?
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@profcarroll
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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