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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News said it does not condone Sean Hannity's appearance onstage at a Trump rally on Monday night and called it an “unfortunate distraction” — Fox News Channel said it did not condone host Sean Hannity's appearance Monday night during President Donald Trump's campaign rally …
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The Guardian:
The Guardian partners with Google to launch Guardian Voice Lab, which will make and test voice-driven audio experiences for Google Assistant with a team of four — Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab - an in-house team dedicated to experimenting …
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The Guardian, @guardiantech and @jypyk
Axios:
Sources: AT&T intends to notify 12+ customers their service is being terminated over piracy allegations, the first time it has taken such action — AT&T will alert a little more than a dozen customers within the next week or so that their service will be terminated due to copyright infringement …
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Boing Boing, @eriqgardner, The Verge, @film_girl, TorrentFreak, Motherboard, MediaPost and Fortune
Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Source: the possible sale of Endemol Shine is off, as 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management suspend the process; Disney will get Fox's 50% stake — UPDATED: The sale of Endemol Shine is off, Variety has learned. Senior staff members at the production and distribution giant were told …
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Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and The Wrap
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at several successful journalism Kickstarter campaigns as seven of the ten most funded journalism projects on the site took place in the last year — The first time the National Observer tried to raise money on Kickstarter, they couldn't get the framing quite right.
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@niemanlab, @raju, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @chrismessina, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Jim Wyss / miamiherald:
Profile of Venezuelan news site Armando.info, whose investigation forced four of its reporters into exile, ahead of its Knight International Journalism Award — Last year, a Venezuelan news website called Armando.info released an explosive series of stories about a Colombian businessman named Alex Saab …
Jonathan Albright:
Right Wing News, one of hundreds of “inauthentic” Facebook Pages removed in October, consistently outperformed Pages like Breitbart and Fox News from 2013-2016 — Part III: Granular Enforcement — The third part of my midterm election-time study looks at granular enforcement …
Discussion:
@cwarzel, @jason_kint, @dpfunke, @emilybell and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Matt Lopez / The Wrap:
TicToc, Bloomberg's 24/7 news network, is trying to curb fake news around the mid-term elections by creating 50 Twitter Moments with verified info — Network will create 50 Moments on platform to “fight through saturation that will be Twitter on election night”
Maclean's:
Canadian news magazine Maclean's publishes its most recent issue with 66,349 unique covers, each dedicated to a Canadian who died in the First World War — Maclean's has published more than 66,000 covers, each one dedicated to an individual Canadian who died in the First World War
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@macleans
Todd Spangler / Variety:
After Variety inquiry, Fox News stops an ad for its news app that had been atop search results for “Infowars” on Apple's App Store; Fox calls the ad an error — Leading up the 2018 midterm elections, Fox News Channel was looking to entice fans of Infowars …
Discussion:
Mediaite, @jank0, @oliverdarcy and Bloomberg
James Loke Hale / Tubefilter:
Sources: Defy Media is shutting down its LA office and making the ~80 employees who work there redundant — Defy Media has given all of the employees working out of its Beverly Hills production office notice that they will be laid off and the office will be permanently closed effective Jan. 2 …
Discussion:
Variety, New York Post and The Wrap
Politico:
Preparing to cover the midterm election results, journalists and editors say they have learned from 2016's mistakes — “We're going to be nimble. We're going to follow the results," an ABC News exec said. “We're not going to assume anything.” — CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist …
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