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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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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared onstage at Trump's rally on Monday night, after both he and the network had denied that he would do so — “I had no idea you were going to invite me up here,” said Hannity, who had pledged he would not campaign on stage on Monday night.
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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Motherboard, TorrentFreak, @eriqgardner, The Verge, @film_girl, Fortune and MediaPost
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
Tony Leys / Des Moines Register:
US Rep. Steve King's campaign refuses to give press credentials to The Des Moines Register for King's election night event — Rep. Steve King nearly halted his visit to an Iowa candidate forum after a man asked about similarities between King and the alleged synagogue shooter
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CNN, New York Times, @kevinjrawlinson, @cannon_online, @dmregister, @gregorykorte, @7im, @alanfisher, @paulkrugman, Fortune, Mediaite and New Republic
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 …
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@cwarzel, @jason_kint, @dpfunke, @emilybell and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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
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
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 and @oliverdarcy
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Facebook's own data shows that by the time the company pulled Trump's anti-immigration ad, between 3M-5M people likely had already seen it — After the Trump campaign produced and distributed a campaign ad last week that conflated the issue of violent crime and the so-called caravan …
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Conservative News Today, USA Today, The Daily Caller and @mathewi, more at Techmeme »
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook pulls Trump campaign's anti-immigration ad saying it violates advertising policy against “sensational content,” though the video can be posted
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