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6:05 AM ET, October 14, 2018

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CBS News:
Donald Trump says US will get to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi case and that there will be “severe punishment” if the missing Saudi journalist was murdered  —  President Trump tells 60 Minutes Saudi Arabia has denied playing a part in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, but says the case is being investigated.
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
After Khashoggi's disappearance, FT, CNBC, NYT, CNN, Bloomberg, Nikkei have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia conference; Fox Business and Saudi's Al Arabiya remain  —  London (CNN Business)Most of the news outlets that had agreed to sponsor a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 …
Rossalyn Warren / WIRED UK:
Egyptian law enforcement is using the country's new law against “fake news” to imprison women who share their sexual harassment experiences on social platforms  —  Social media accelerated Egypt's revolution.  Now those same services have become a tool of control for a repressive regime
Discussion: Techdirt
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Beast and Slate
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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
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.
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 …
New York Times:
A look at Peter Rice's 30-year career at Fox as he begins work as chairman of Walt Disney Television, responsible for both Disney and Fox TV programming  —  Hollywood executives are not so different from the stars they employ.  They want to be seen in the right booths at the right restaurants.
Discussion: @jimwindolf
Dan Christensen / Florida Bulldog:
Newspaper sales across Florida are eroding faster than the national average: between 2016 and 2017, print sales fell 10.5% nationally versus 13.9% in the state  —  'Tis the season...for newspapers to file their annual forms with the U.S. Postal Service disclosing how many copies they sold over the last 12 months.
University of Michigan News:
University of Michigan has developed a tool that monitors the prevalence of fake news on social media and assigns it a value called the Iffy Quotient  —  ANN ARBOR—As the crucial mid-term election approaches, the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility offers media …
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 …
Discussion: @blakehounshell
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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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
How Europe's FemFacts and Columbia's El Poder de Elegir work to debunk misinformation about women and counterbalance male editorial perspectives
Discussion: Nieman Lab
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
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
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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
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Thrillist writers and editors win a minimum starting salary of $50K after 15 months of union negotiations with owner Group Nine Media
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Washington Post:
Facebook removes 800+ US-based accounts and pages, some with 100K+ followers, that were spamming people with political messages for profit