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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Washington Post fact-checks Trump's USA Today opinion piece on Medicare-For-All, finds most sentences contain a “misleading statement or falsehood” — President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans …
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USA Today, Washington Post, @rocketgirlmd, @nrarmour, @usatoday, @dailytrix, @uniwave, @johnmcquaid, CommonWealth Magazine, @penamerican, DCReport.org, The Week, Splinter, The Hill, Slate, New York Times, The Daily Caller, CNN, Common Dreams, NPR, Mediaite, The Guardian, Contemptor, Media Matters for America, Mashable, CNBC and USA TODAY
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Social media accounts of major news organizations continue to broadcast Trump's falsehoods without clearly informing readers that they are misleading — At a rally on Wednesday night, President Trump accused Hillary Clinton of conspiring with Russia to try to swing the 2016 election.
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Mediaite, Splinter, @sarahlerner, Mashable, NBC News, @jayrosen_nyu, @brianbeutler, @sjgrunewald, @clairecloutier, @dangillmor, @christineemba, @reedfrich, @keithboykin, @wm_bbc, @tom_mallory and @espiegler
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
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@susanpage, Mediaite, @jayrosen_nyu, @kylegriffin1, USA Today, Splinter, @bsternbe, The Week, @albertocairo, Vox, @poniewozik, @jeffyoung, @acosta, @jayrosen_nyu, USA Today, The Hill, The Hill, Boing Boing, Observer, NBC News and Snopes.com
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Johnston Press, which owns almost 200 regional newspapers and has spent 18 months trying to refinance its £220M debt, has put itself up for sale — Struggling publisher seeks offers after lengthy refinancing talks with bondholders — Johnston Press, which has titles include the i newspaper …
Washington Post:
Facebook removes 800+ US-based accounts and pages, some with 100K+ followers, that were spamming people with political messages for profit — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday it has purged more than 800 U.S publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically-oriented content …
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Facebook, Ad Age, VentureBeat, Adweek, New York Times, USA Today, Associated Press, @fordfischer, Wall Street Journal, @fordfischer, @markwarner, @leecamp, @antimedia, @tftproject, Media Matters for America, @sarahfrier, @selectedwisdom, @mikeisaac, @natijomartinez, @newsguardrating, @kenklippenstein, LEE CAMP, @stbridgetathena, @stbridgetathena, @stbridgetathena, @stbridgetathena, Dr. Dena Grayson, @brianstelter, @drdenagrayson, @mmfa, @lizzadwoskin, @rmac18, The Verge, @selectedwisdom, @noupside, @tonyromm and Mindy Fischer, Writer, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Walmart is creating a joint venture with New York-based “interactive storytelling” startup Eko; sources say the investment with Eko is worth $250M — Walmart is going Hollywood. — The world's largest retailer, in a constant battle with its rival Amazon …
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TechCrunch, The Wrap, @edmundlee, @opherv and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Genius partners with Apple Music to show lyrics and annotations for thousands of selected songs and makes Apple Music the official music player for Genius — Music encyclopedia and lyrics database Genius has announced a partnership with Apple Music, pairing the website's lyrics with songs.
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Genius, Fast Company, SlashGear, How-To Geek, Variety and @ws, more at Techmeme »
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Civil Media has had difficulty raising money with a weak demand for its blockchain tokens and lack of major news partners — Startup is falling short of its funding goal, as major news organizations pass on partnerships and one of its co-founders criticizes company
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@jeffjarvis, Civil, Columbia Journalism Review, @jeffjarvis, @kwerb, @ahcastor, @rafat, @rafat, @rafat, @dicktofel, @coindesk, @vivian, @benmullin, @jbenton and CNN
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
After Khashoggi's disappearance, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and NYT have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia's investment conference; others are weighing issue — The headline on a recent story in The Post confirms the enormity of the ongoing international crisis for Saudi Arabia …
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Reuters, Talking Biz News, BuzzFeed, The Wrap, CNN, Common Dreams, CNBC, Mashable, @andrewrsorkin, Deadspin, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, @dabeard, @justinhendrix, @hadas_gold, @hisham_melhem and @grynbaum
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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
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New York Times, Slate, CNBC, @asadabukhalil, Splinter, The Daily Caller, Observer and New York Post
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS announces that Joanna Coles, formerly the chief content officer for Hearst Magazines, is joining CBS This Morning as a part-time creative adviser — Joanna Coles, the veteran magazine editor and former chief content officer of Hearst Magazines, is coming aboard “CBS This Morning” as a creative adviser.
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TVNewser, The Wrap, @cbsnews and Hollywood Reporter
New York Magazine:
New York Mag relaunches Intelligencer, bringing together the Daily Intelligencer and Select All brands with expanded coverage and 2038, a limited-run podcast — Welcome to the new Intelligencer. We're adding a lot of things to the site today, and we'll get to those in a minute …
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@joshglancy, MediaPost and Intelligencer
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Interview with Wolfgang Blau, president of Condé Nast, on his EU meeting, the importance of machine language translation, GDPR, Facebook, Google, and more — Wolfgang Blau, president of Condé Nast International, is steering the global publisher toward organizing around brands rather than separate countries.
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@micschl, @ilamont, @jinnovationcity, @gilbane, @wblau, @insidepages and Variety
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Politico:
Fox stops airing Trump rallies in full as they increase in frequency and ratings drop; a White House official said officials would “look into” this trend — In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a megaphone to his base.
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@kimmasters, @joycewhitevance, Contemptor, Mediaite, Splinter and The Week
Irish Examiner:
FOIA figures show that since the revelation of a 9.3% median gender pay gap at the BBC, 316 BBC staff have been given raises and the pay gap has fallen to 7.6% — More than 300 BBC staff - including some men - have received a salary boost after questioning their pay in the last 14 months, according to new figures.
Discussion:
Independent.ie and The Times & The Sunday Times
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Like WaPo with Arc, Vox is licensing its publishing platform, Chorus, starting with the Chicago Sun-Times, including access to Concert, Vox's ad marketplace — “The joke in the industry is everybody doesn't like the CMS or they write in some other tool.” Vox Media aims to change that punchline for other publishers.
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Vox Media and Chicago Sun-Times
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