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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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@seanhannity, CNN, Media Matters for America, @maggienyt, Washington Post, @oliverdarcy, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, @jdawsey1, @mcfaul, @erikwemple, @brianstelter, @mattgertz, @wajahatali, @mattmittenthal, @mattnegrin, @mattgertz, @mehdirhasan, @aaschapiro, @badastronomer, @govhowarddean, @davidfolkenflik, @normornstein, @ddale8, @themediaisdying, @jeremymbarr, @underoak, @david_s_cohen, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Newser
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
Associated Press:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving …
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
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, @film_girl, @eriqgardner, The Verge, TorrentFreak, Motherboard, MediaPost and Fortune
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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@chrismessina, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @raju, @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 …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK trade body AOP and The Media Trust plan to launch a free tool that will let publishers see what cookies are dropped on their sites and by which vendors — More publishers want to crack down on rogue cookies on their sites. — For publishers, monitoring which cookies are dropped …
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 …
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@dpfunke, @emilybell, @jason_kint, @cwarzel and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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
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”
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 …
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Mediaite, @jank0, @oliverdarcy and Bloomberg