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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
USA Today editorial page editor Bill Sternberg says Trump's healthcare op-ed was fact-checked and Trump was given wide leeway to express his opinion — USA Today defended the column, saying it had fact-checked the president's claims. — USA Today on Wednesday published an opinion piece credited …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Press freedom advocates are worried about Trump's weak statements on the Khashoggi case, which they feel will endanger journalists working overseas — Press advocates worry that Saudi Arabia will conclude that the U.S. is uninterested in the disappearance of a writer for one of its most famous newspapers.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was working on launching a nonprofit, pro-democracy advocacy organization when he disappeared — Khashoggi, who may have been murdered and cut into pieces in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, incorporated Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) in January.
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Deadline:
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman say their new mobile video startup is called Quibi; Guillermo del Toro and Jason Blum are both creating shows for it — Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and veteran tech executive Meg Whitman used the prominent platform of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Apple plans to make content it owns free to device owners as part of its forthcoming TV service, launching early next year — - Apple is planning to mix free original content with subscription “channels” to existing digital video services on its “TV” application.
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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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Roy Trakin / Variety:
IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the worldwide record business, released its Music Consumer Insight Report …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
HBO's parent division WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, says it plans to launch a streaming service in Q4 2019 — (CNN)Four months after being acquired by AT&T, WarnerMedia is making plans for a streaming TV service that will be sold directly to consumers. — WarnerMedia, the division …
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Sources: 21st Century Fox President Peter Rice told employees that Disney-Fox deal will be ready to close January 1 and acknowledged there will be layoffs — Fox will be logistically ready for its pending mega-deal with the Walt Disney Co to close Jan. 1, top exec Peter Rice told employees Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Manhattan prosecutors charge IBT and Christian Media with defrauding lenders of ~$10M to keep Newsweek afloat — Prosecutors say $10 million scheme provided funds to help keep company afloat — Newsweek's former parent company has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors with carrying …
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Axios:
HBO's four Axios docu-news series to debut Sunday Nov. 4 and continue through all four Sundays of November — HBO will announce today that “Axios,” a four-part series of news specials we're co-producing with HBO Documentary Films, will debut two days before midterms — Sunday, Nov. 4 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed hires Disney veteran Eric W. Muhlheim as its new CFO starting October 15 — BuzzFeed has hired Eric W. Muhlheim, who previously spent 16 years at the Walt Disney Co., as its new CFO. — Muhlheim replaces Mark Frackt, who departed as BuzzFeed's CFO in July after more than six years with the company.
Chloe Aiello / CNBC:
21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey said media companies would continue to consolidate as they battled Google and Netflix over content — - Media consolidation will continue as companies compete for unique franchises and greater scale, 21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey says.
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