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4:50 PM ET, October 10, 2018

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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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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 …
Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
Employees at Facebook's fact-checking partner in the Philippines, online news site Rappler, say they're struggling to “clean up Facebook's mess”  —  MANILA — The fictional news stories pop up on Facebook faster than Paterno Esmaquel II and his co-workers can stamp them out.
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?
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Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:
Teen Vogue has named Lindsay Peoples Wagner, fashion editor at New York Magazine and The Cut, as its new editor-in-chief starting October 18  —  Condé Nast has named a successor to Phillip Picardi, who is exiting the publisher this month to lead Out Magazine.
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.
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Franklin Foer reflects on his 2016 article about server activity between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and the frustrations and rewards of being a journalist  —  For at least the past two years, Americans have lived in an extended state of suspense about what could be the most nefarious scandal in the nation's political history.
 
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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple's M5 chip to use TSMC's advanced N3P node; M5 Pro, Max, and Ultra will use a new server-grade SoIC packaging featuring separate CPU and GPU designs

Financial Times:
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Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google
 
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