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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department has contacted Saudi officials about Khashoggi case and calls on Saudi Arabia to support investigation — The State Department confirmed Monday that it has spoken with Saudi Arabia's government regarding the disappearance of a Saudi journalist …
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US official: Turkish investigators believe Kamal Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed in boxes, and flown out of the country — ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded Monday that Saudi Arabia prove that journalist Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on his own …
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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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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, @mariabustillos, @lillian_ruiz, @tefomohapi, @baekdal, @randalllane and Civil


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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Condé Nast is launching a new eight-episode series called “Risky Biz”, which was inspired by an article in The New Yorker, on Facebook Watch on Oct 21 — Facebook Watch will soon be home to a new unscripted series from Condé Nast Entertainment.


RT's Washington correspondent Sameera Khan deleted her Twitter account after sharing memes praising Stalin's gulags — “The memes I shared re: Stalin's gulags were inaccurate. My apologies to all those who were offended," Sameera Khan says — RT's Kremlin-financed Washington Correspondent Sameera Khan …
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Hindustan Times political editor and bureau chief Prashant Jha resigns after allegations of sexual harassment from a former colleague — Prashant Jha's name surfaced in an account posted as part of a Twitter thread that started last week and encouraged many women to name and shame people who had allegedly sexually harassed them
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NBCUniversal launches WatchBack, an app that gives viewers a chance to win prizes; non-exclusive video includes full-length shows, clips, and digital series — The idea behind WatchBack is for the media giant to learn about consumption habits, data that is often not available to NBC when someone watches a show on linear television.
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Netflix is in final negotiations to purchase an eight sound stage production studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, says it will create up to 1,000 jobs per year — - Streaming giant is in final talks for New Mexico facility ABQ — Company to create 1,000 jobs, spend $1 billion on production


Ex-White House Director of Communications Hope Hicks has been named head of corporate communications for New Fox — Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director who served during the chaotic first year of the Trump administration, has been named head of corporate communications for New Fox …
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Trust in financial media broke down catastrophically with the 2008 financial crisis, helped by social media and that degenerated into anger and disinformation — Finance is all about trust. JP Morgan, patriarch of the banking dynasty, told Congress in the 1912 hearings that led to the foundation …