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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
President Erdogan addresses Turkish Parliament on Jamal Khashoggi's murder, says Saudi team planned killing and proposes trials to be held in Istanbul — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, having promised to reveal the “naked truth” of a Saudi plot to kill the journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Jared Kushner says that the Trump administration is trying to establish facts around Khashoggi's death but insists US must work with allies like Saudi Arabia
Jared Kushner says that the Trump administration is trying to establish facts around Khashoggi's death but insists US must work with allies like Saudi Arabia
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The New York Times Company:
Dodai Stewart, founding editor of Jezebel and former editor-in-chief of Splinter, is joining the New York Times as deputy editor of Metro — Dodai Stewart, a founding editor of Jezebel and the ultimate New Yorker, will join Metro later this month. Read more in this note from Cliff Levy:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Verizon reports Q3 revenues for its media arm Oath dropped 6.9% YoY to $1.8B, says the unit will not meet its goal of $10B revenue by 2020 — Verizon says its media arm, Oath, which consists of AOL, HuffPost, Yahoo and other digital brands, is struggling to drive revenue.
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Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post:
China releases draft rules that require entities using blockchain-based info services register real names, censor content, store user data to allow inspection — - Cyberspace Administration of China published draft regulations on Friday for public consultation until November 2
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@jorge_guajardo and The Next Web
Fox 5:
A 38-year-old man attempted to break into Fox 5's building in Washington DC on Tuesday, but was shot by a security guard — Surveillance video shows suspect kicking glass door to get into FOX 5's building — FOX 5 security shoots man attempting to break into building
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Crain's Chicago Business:
Jim Kirk, former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, to return to Crain's Chicago Business as publisher and executive editor — Chicago media veteran Jim Kirk returns to Crain's Chicago Business to lead business operations as well as the newsroom. — Jim Kirk, a veteran …
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Sara Murray / CNN:
Sources: Mueller is investigating whether Roger Stone had backchannels to WikiLeaks, also probing his relationship with ex-InfoWars DC bureau chief Jerome Corsi — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's scrutiny of Roger Stone includes investigating whether Stone had backchannels …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Right are a bigger threat to freedom of speech than the Left, as it is conservatives who are using the courts to mount an assault on journalists and critics — Angry men go to court to silence their critics. — One minor sordid subplot of the Trump era has been the ugly custody battle …
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CNN:
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with Infowars, some for helping Infowars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban — New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
MSNBC, Daily Beast, PBS Newshour, and CNN feature UAE lobbyist David Rothkopf with no disclosure; WaPo, CBS News, and Fox also have guests with undisclosed ties — On Thursday, the Daily Beast published an article about the Saudi/US relationship by David Rothkopf, a long-time member in good standing of the U.S. Foreign Policy elite.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Digital publisher Refinery29, the media and entertainment company focused on millennial women, is laying off 10% of its workforce or 40+ full-time employees — Despite growth, the women's lifestyle-oriented publisher will fall roughly 5% short of 2018 revenue goal
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed — ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’ — The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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