Mediagazer: George Soros donates $2M to the Wikimedia Endowment, which has raised more than $26.5M since its launch in January 2016 (Kaitlin Thaney/Wikimedia Foundation)

MTV partners with Bunim/Murray Productions to create three seasons of The Real World exclusively for Facebook Watch, expected to launch spring 2019 — - Viacom's MTV Studios and Bunim/Murray Productions are co-producing three seasons of Real World specifically for Facebook Watch.

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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood — Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers.

New York Times:

Three of the suspects in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi have links to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's security detail — ISTANBUL — One of the suspects identified by Turkey in the disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was a frequent companion of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …

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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:

Washington Post told contributing writer Ed Rogers to stop lobbying for Saudis or stop column; his firm, BGR, dropped the kingdom as a client, losing $80K/month — The Washington Post told a prominent Republican lobbyist he'd lose his gig as a contributing opinion writer unless he stopped lobbying …

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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:

Netflix Q3: streaming revenue of $3.91B, up 36% YoY, and global membership surpassing 130M paid and 137M total; stock up 13%+ after hours — - Earnings per share (EPS): 89 cents vs. 68 cents estimate, according to a Refinitiv consensus estimate — Netflix shares soared 15 percent …

Matthew Iles / Civil:

Civil says the sale of its CVL token fails to hit its $8M goal, buyers will be offered full refunds; plans for a “simpler” token sale will be shared soon — A setback, and the path forward. — Key takeaways: — The CVL token sale didn't succeed.

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Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Scribd and The New York Times partner to launch a dual subscription package for $12.99 per month — E-book service Scribd has teamed up with the New York Times for a new joint subscription offering: Subscribers of the new Scribd and New York Times bundle get unlimited access to the Times' website …

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PEN America:

PEN America, along with two other organizations, sues President Trump seeking to stop him from using govt to retaliate against news outlets and journalists — “PEN declares for a free press and opposes arbitrary censorship. It believes that the necessary advance of the world toward …

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Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:

YouTube says it has resolved widespread access issues that also affected YouTube TV and YouTube Music — Google's services are ubiquitous enough that it's pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Report: Hulu CEO Randy Freer says the company is planning a skinny bundle aimed at “cord-shavers” and priced at less than its current $40/month service — Hulu wants to cater to a new crowd of pay-TV “cord-shavers” with stripped-down, less-expensive live television bundles that include sports …

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Kaitlin Thaney / Wikimedia Foundation:

George Soros donates $2M to the Wikimedia Endowment, which has raised more than $26.5M since its launch in January 2016 — The billionaire investor and noted philanthropist is giving $2 million to the Wikimedia Endowment. — We are pleased to announce a $2 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment …

Michael Calderone / Politico:

Craig Newmark donates $2.5M to New York Public Radio to help finance the expansion of WNYC and local news site Gothamist — THE WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD posed a good question Tuesday night: “Why is the Trump administration cleaning up Saudi Arabia's mess?”

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