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Eli Pariser / Nieman Lab:
After Trump's USA Today “op-ed”, it's time to reconsider the practice of bundling hard news and opinion under the same brand names and domains — A friend who works at a major tech platform recently posed an interesting riddle to me. Disinformation peddlers were setting …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Suit against creator of Shitty Media Men list raises issues about Section 230 immunity; Google says it will fight any effort to get document details via company — Stephen Elliott has brought a defamation lawsuit over his inclusion on a list of allegedly sexually exploitive men …
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Esther Wang / Jezebel:
Writer Stephen Elliott sues Moira Donegan, creator of the Shitty Media Men list, saying his inclusion on the list made him depressed and hurt his book sales — On Wednesday, Stephen Elliott filed a lawsuit against Moira Donegan, the creator of the Shitty Media Men list …
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Graeme McMillan / Hollywood Reporter:
Chuck Wendig, who wrote the Star Wars: Aftermath series, says Marvel Entertainment has fired him because “of the negativity and vulgarity” in his tweets — Chuck Wendig says he was removed from the ‘Shadow of Vader’ series with two issues left unwritten over the “negativity and vulgarity” his tweets bring.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT Afghanistan bureau chief Margaret Coker leaves due to an internal personnel matter over Rukmini Callimachi's work in Iraq, sources say — In August 2017, the New York Times announced the hiring of Margaret Coker to helm its Baghdad bureau. “There is a reason The New York Times …
Angela Watercutter / Wired:
Climate scientists are using a Fortnite channel on Twitch to discuss and disseminate information about climate change to a young audience — I KNOW VERY little about climate change. I know even less about Fortnite. And Twitch. (Yes, I know; I should be fired.)
Hadas Gold / CNN:
After Khashoggi's disappearance, FT, CNBC, NYT, CNN, Bloomberg have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia conference; Fox Business, Nikkei, and Saudi's Al Arabiya remain — London (CNN Business)Most of the news outlets that had agreed to sponsor a high-profile business conference in Saudi Arabia …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
News cycle intensity in the Trump era has led cable news channels to refocus their morning and afternoon programming on hard news instead of lighter fare — Jim Sciutto hasn't been known as much of a morning person at CNN. Since joining the network in 2013, the national security reporter …
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Sources: McClatchy has approached Apollo Management to help finance its Tribune bid, concerned that Patrick Soon-Shiong will back out as its bidding partner — Billionaire Leon Black is weighing yet another opportunity to invest in the newspaper business. — Print empire McClatchy …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
New Yorker says its subscriptions are up, with digital only subs hitting ~167K, up 10% YoY, and the site saw 22.5M unique visitors in September, up 27% YoY — When past presidents and other luminaries of a more civil time in Washington turned John McCain's funeral a month ago into an elegy …
Ronan Shields / Adweek:
The Guardian and ad-tech company the Rubicon Project settle legal dispute over transaction fees that ad buyers are charged, which Rubicon has now dropped — Terms not disclosed, but agreement ‘does not assign any liability to either party’ — Rubicon Project and U.K. news title The Guardian …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sensor Tower: Netflix app revenue was up ~90% YoY to ~$243.7M in Q3 across both App Store and Google Play, the highest grossing non-game mobile app worldwide — App spending across Apple App Store and Google Play increased 23% in third quarter, per Sensor Tower
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